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The Niblack Research Scholars program at Oklahoma State University has opened the doors of cutting-edge research for undergraduates for 13 years. This year, 14 OSU undergraduate students are receiving $8,000 scholarships and the opportunity to conduct supervised research as 2016-17 Niblack Research Scholars. The annual program is funded by OSU alumnus John Niblack and his wife, Heidi Niblack.

“History gets a really bad rap by most people today,” Dr. Holly Karibo says with a wry smile as she sits in Café Libro in the Edmon Low Library. “It’s a shame that most people get talked out of it by the time they get to college.”

Two representatives from Oklahoma State University recently visited the White House to contribute to a workshop on the Obama Administration’s Promise Zones initiative, which provides federal support to local leaders in high poverty urban, rural, and tribal communities across the country. 

The OSU Museum of Art is pleased to introduce From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation on view from Sept. 27, 2016 through Jan. 28, 2017.

For Indigenous people, culture is often passed to a new generation through oral traditions and the retelling of tribal narratives, including tribal creation stories. It is here that we find the stories of women who made the world. In From the Belly of Our Being, 20 contemporary artists – and Native women – explore how the feminine forces in their tribal creation stories continue to inform the ideals of feminine behavior and gendered roles.

Oklahoma State University sociologist Riley Dunlap has been appointed the American Sociological Association’s lead representative to work with the Social Sciences Coordinating Committee (SSCC) of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to strengthen the use of social science perspectives in the federal government’s research on climate change. 

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.