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Leaders of the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations joined Oklahoma State University officials, faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends along with other tribal leaders Tuesday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the OSU Center for Sovereign Nations.

The Oklahoma State University College of Arts and Sciences announced its faculty and staff award winners at its annual Fall Convocation, held in the Wes Watkins Center Exhibition Hall.  Ten members of the CAS faculty and staff were honored at the event while many others received service pins.  A Citizenship Award was given for the first time.

One of the world’s leading philosophers arguing for the existence of God will speak at OSU as part of the Converse-Yates-Cate Lectureship in the Humanities.

Kayleigh Karinen never expected to end up in Oklahoma, first arriving to be a member of the cheerleading program.

When she came to OSU to be a member of OSU’s nationally recognized cheerleading program in 2014, she was also offered an academic scholarship that made OSU an opportunity she felt she could not refuse. It was the beginning of an academic journey that has since taken her around the globe to countries such as Spain and Chile.

Far to the west from American shores sits the island of Betio, now part of the most populous area of the nation of Kiribati. More than 70 years ago, Betio was a fortress, the site of a Japanese airfield that was the focal point of one of the first amphibious assaults by U.S. Marines in World War II.

As the closing ceremonies of 2016 Olympic Games draw near, a much lesser known international effort for Brazil comes to an end.  The country introduced its “Science Without Borders” program in 2011 with the lofty goal of qualifying 100,000 Brazilian students and researchers to study at the top universities in the world. 

An Oklahoma State University microbiologist and a colleague have reported progress in understanding the evolutionary origin of the genetic code used by all known cells. The scientists reconstructed the genetic code of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA), believed by some scientists to be the origin of all life on Earth.

Oklahoma State University has joined a list of 25 “rising stars” among North American research institutions, according to a supplement from the journal publisher Nature. Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars showed OSU rose dramatically in publication of high-quality research in elite journals from 2012 to 2015.

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded Oklahoma State University clinical psychology graduate student Elly Leavens a prestigious fellowship to examine the co-use of alcohol and hookah tobacco.