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The National Science Foundation has awarded a researcher at Oklahoma State University a $203,000 grant to study the impact early hardships had on fertility among American Indian women in historical Oklahoma. The project will also explore how fertility patterns varied, depending on tribal nation and place of residence within Oklahoma. 

Thirty-one students from eight different states have been selected to participate in the Oklahoma State University Life Science Freshman Research Scholars (LSFRS) program for 2016-17.

The OSU Department of Sociology will welcome Dr. Joane Nagel to campus Monday, Oct. 17 as part of the 2016 Bradford Gray Lecture Series.

Every year, a select group of students from the Kuang Yaming Honors School at Nanjing University in Nanjing, China, are sent to Duke University in North Carolina for an international study program for a few weeks. 

This year, the group decided to add a few days in Stillwater to their itinerary.

Dr. Andrew Fullerton, OSU Professor of Sociology, has been named to the review board for the American Sociological Review (ASR), the national scholarly publication of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

The Oklahoma State University Department of Theatre is preparing for its first Main Stage Production of the 2016-2017 school year. Tanya Barfield’s The Call will run Sept. 22-24 at 7:30 p.m. and Sept. 25 at 2:30 p.m. in the Vivia Locke Theatre of the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts.

What do an opera singer, a mixed martial arts world champion, a historian, and an internationally revered physicist have in common?  They were all inducted to the Oklahoma State University College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame at a private banquet on Friday, September 9.  The College also recognized a Rising Star and 21 Distinguished Alumni. 

World-renowned evolutionary biologist Dr. Robert Trivers, professor of anthropology and biological sciences at Rutgers University, will deliver a series of three lectures at Oklahoma State University on Thursday, September 15 through Friday, September 16.  The lectures, which are free and open to the public, are based on his recent work in self-deception and human evolutionary genetics.

Oklahoma State University assistant professor of geography Amy Frazier is one of four authors of new a book detailing the shrinkage and decline of cities in United States.  Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States aims to provide an understanding of what the “city” has become and present analysis for future development.