Campus e-clips, 02/20/2009

              Oklahoma Higher Education's Campus E-Clips Newsletter - March 2008
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IN OTHER NEWS FEBRUARY 20, 2009 EVENTS
OU President Boren Sets
Goal to Increase Study
Abroad By 50 Percent
SWOSU Student Secures
Grant for Local Free
Clinic
OPSU Cattle Tagging
Research Complete
NSU Campus Pulls
Together To Clean Up
After Storm
OSU-Tulsa Students and
Professor Examine
Creativity
South Korean Gift a
Surprise to OSUIT
TCC Developing Textbook Alternatives for
Students
The cost of tuition is not the only
cost on the rise in higher education.
Textbooks are costing students more
than ever before with prices rising at
twice the annual rate of inflation
according to The Government
Accountability Office. Read more.
First Graduates
Complete Adult Degree Program at ECU
After two years of college, Danny
Hooper decided he was headed in the
wrong direction. Read more.
Student’s Love of
Extreme Photography
Benefits USAO Students
USAO communication major Mike
Friend has lived out many people’s
dream – to travel the world. When it
came time for his senior
communication project, he wanted to
help other people live out their dream
– a college education. Read more.
NASA Astronaut Inspires
Oklahoma Students to
Pursue Science Careers
Dr. Shannon Lucid, NASA astronaut, along with Oklahoma’s top
female scientists and engineers, encouraged more than 500 Oklahoma
middle and high school students to pursue careers in science,
technology, engineering and mathematics fields as part of the 2009
Oklahoma EPSCoR Women in Science Conference, an event created to
spark the interests of the state’s future scientists and engineers. Read
more.
UCO Continues to Lead the Way in
Sustainability Efforts With 2008
Environmental Excellence Awards
The University of Central
Oklahoma has been recognized for
excellence in sustainability efforts for
2008, winning both the Earth Care
Award from the Sierra Club’s
Oklahoma chapter and the
Feb. 23-28 - USAO Music of
Leonard Bernstein
March 5-6 - OU Libaries
Conference: Exceeding User
Expectations in a Digital Age
March 26 - USAO Legendary
Biologist, Pulitzer Winner E.I
Wilson
March 28 - SWOSU Tough
Enough to Wear Pink
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