OU Caner Institute holds ceremony for new home

The OU Cancer Institute will have a ceremony today to mark the halfway point of the construction on its new building, according to a press release.

The celebration will start at 3:30 p.m. at Stanton L. Young Biomedical Research Center on the OU Health Sciences Center campus. Speakers will include President David Boren. Following the speakers, there will be a tour of the site of the institute.

The new OUCI building will house cancer research labs, clinics and support, all under one roof, according to the group’s Web site. By doing this, the OUCI hopes that cancer patients will be able to get complete care in one place.

For more information, call Jerri Culpepper or Tara Malone at 325-1701.

Speaker addresses role of visual design in innovation

The OU School of Art and Art History and the Visual Communications department will host “The Role of Visual Design in Innovation,” an artist lecture given by Denise Burton of Frog Design, at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Heritage room.

Frog Design is a global innovation firm that works with the world’s leading companies, helping them to create and bring to market products, services and experiences. Burton has led and participated in award-winning mobile, web and application projects for both consumers and enterprises.

Currently, Burton is one of Frog Design’s mobile experts. She has created future mobile vision concepts for global leading carriers and handset providers. She has also created, built and delivered cutting edge mobile user interfaces, which have won awards. She has written the Frog Design touch guidelines and oversees many of the mobile projects at Frog Design across a range of platforms, including Brew and Android.

For more information contact Karen Hayes-Thumann at 325-2691.

Guest professor lectures on Lincoln's life

Jean Harvey Baker, professor of history at Goucher College located near Baltimore, Md., will give insight into life in the White House during the Lincoln administration at a free presentation on the OU campus.

The lecture, “Lincoln in the White House: An Intimate Portrait,” is part of the 100th year celebration of Lincoln’s birth, and will be at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

Baker is the author of eight books, including a revisionist biography of Mary Todd Lincoln and several books on the Civil War and on suffragettes in the U.S.

Funding for the series of lectures is made possible by the Friends of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Barbara B. and William G. Paul Enrichment Fund, the James H. and JoAnn H. Holden Enrichment Fund, Office of the President, Departments of Communications, History and Human Relations, The Carl Albert Center, African and African-American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies Programs.

For more information, contact Ben Keppel at 325-6058.