OUDaily.com | Jared Rader

May 6, 2011 | 1 comment

A 17-percent decrease in summer enrollment numbers since 2007 has prompted university officials to redesign the way the term is funded and scheduled in order to boost student registration in summer 2011. In an attempt to improve enrollment, Nick Hathaway, OU executive vice president and Administration and Finance vice president, and Nancy Mergler, senior vice president and provost, established the Summer Session Steering Committee, which is tasked with creating new strategies to increase summer enrollment. READ MORE

COLUMN: U.S. foreign policy must change after bin Laden's death

May 3, 2011 | 5 comments

When I read the news on Twitter — about 45 minutes before President Barack Obama gave the official word — that U.S. forces had killed the world’s most infamous terrorist leader, I admit I was elated. I felt the same as the thousands of people who gathered on the White House lawn and at Ground Zero felt. But then reality started to creep back into my rational mind. READ MORE

Critic Norman Finkelstein refutes Palestinian war crimes

April 27, 2011 | 5 comments

Israel committed war crimes during its 2008-09 assault on the Gaza Strip in Palestine, including targeting civilians, a prominent Israeli policy critic told an audience Tuesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. Norman Finkelstein, author of several books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and former DePaul University professor, spoke about the conflict in light of recent retractions made by the leader of a UN fact-finding mission April 1, which cleared Israel of targeting civilians. READ MORE

UOSA budget grows by $12,470

April 20, 2011 | 1 comment

Funding student organizations and improving UOSA administrative functions motivated three students and one administrator to allocate an additional $12,470.20 in student-activity fee revenues to student government rather than other Student Affairs departments. READ MORE

Mental health department denied additional funding

April 19, 2011 | 4 comments

The university’s mental-health department did not receive the extra funding it requested from student-activity fee revenues this semester even though the money was available. UOSA’s budget increased by $12,470.20 for the 2011-2012 academic year after the Student Activity Fee Committee allocated the entire projected increase in student-activity fee revenues to student government. READ MORE

Campus leaders disperse $3.2M from fees

April 18, 2011 | 0 comments

Three students and one university administrator — the Student Activity Fee Committee — were responsible for allocating more than $3.2 million of student money this year. READ MORE

State debt to OU grows $2M

March 28, 2011 | 0 comments

The Oklahoma Legislature’s commitment to match private donations for endowed faculty chairs just got more difficult with an Ohio couple’s $2 million gift to OU to create a chair in anthropology and archaeology. OU Public Affairs announced Arnold and Wanda Coldiron’s gift to create the Robert E. and Virginia Bell Endowed Chair in Anthropological Archaeology on Thursday. READ MORE

The Daily reviews Stiles video

March 25, 2011 | 23 comments

A video of an incident between students, faculty and a state representative March 3 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union has been shared with The Daily. READ MORE

HSC to pay Askins' salary

March 10, 2011 | 0 comments

Compensation for the new associate provost of external relations at the OU Health Sciences Center will not come from public funds, OU President David Boren said Tuesday. Askins will be paid the same salary she received as lieutenant governor — $114,713. READ MORE

Rising costs to increase tuition

March 9, 2011 | 4 comments

OU President David Boren continued to indicate tuition will increase next fall on Tuesday, citing rising employee health insurance costs and high utility payments for campus buildings. Though he said the construction of new buildings on campus is ending — more than 15 buildings have been built or refurbished since his appointment in 1995 — new buildings mean the university must make utility payments long after construction is complete. READ MORE

4.5% tuition hike likely, report states

March 2, 2011 | 0 comments

OU’s tuition could increase 4.5 percent after fiscal year 2011, a major credit rating agency stated in its assessment of OU’s ability to pay back investors. Fitch Ratings, one of the top three credit rating agencies along with Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investor Service, reported the possible tuition increase in a Jan. 18 report evaluating OU’s credit. READ MORE

Deficit, taxes key to recovery, economist says

February 23, 2011 | 0 comments

Solving the economic issues in America should be easy, but the political climate is making it difficult for politicians to make the right decisions, a Nobel Prize-winning economist told guests Tuesday. Students and faculty jammed into Pitman Recital Hall Tuesday evening to hear Paul Krugman, a New York Times opinion columnist and professor of economics at Princeton University, discuss the current political and economic outlook nationally and internationally. READ MORE

Q&A with Paul Krugman

February 23, 2011 | 0 comments

The Daily was able to ask Paul Krugman a few questions before he left the campus. Here is a transcription of the brief interview. READ MORE

Point/Counterpoint: Should Sooner fans stay for the entire game, even OU-Texas?

September 28, 2010 | 2 comments

The Daily's Luke Atkinson and Jared Rader debate whether Sooner fans should stay till the end of football games, even OU-Texas. READ MORE

Oklahomans up the ante

November 12, 2009 | 1 comment

During the 2009 fiscal year, the number of Oklahomans calling a hotline dedicated to the treatment of compulsive and problem gambling increased, and it’s unclear if the problem is trickling down to the student population at OU. READ MORE

State researchers conduct study with global implications

November 5, 2009 | 0 comments

Researchers from the OU Health Sciences Center are studying the processes that occur when people who are infected with HIV interact with parasitic diseases that both humans and animals carry. READ MORE

Government interference in health care not needed

November 4, 2009 | 3 comments

While the U.S. health care system needs reform, it can be done without government involvement, a 5th district U.S. Congressional candidate and doctor told an audience Tuesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. READ MORE

Researchers create ecological forcaster

November 2, 2009 | 1 comment

Researchers from around the world will soon be able to forecast ecological processes with the development of an “information cafeteria” a team of OU researchers is creating called cyberCommons. READ MORE

OU Research Cabinet receives grant to develop ecological forecaster

October 30, 2009 | 0 comments

Researchers from around the world will soon be able to use real-time data to forecast ecological processes with the development of an information “cafeteria” a team of OU researchers is developing. READ MORE

Tobacco companies face opposition,court fights industry

October 29, 2009 | 0 comments

Dr. Alan Blum, director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society at the University of Alabama presented “A Call to Action: Countering Tobacco Industry Tactics” at the OU College of Public Health Wednesday. READ MORE

Global warming debate still going strong

October 27, 2009 | 3 comments

An official statement on climate change from the Oklahoma Climatological Survey reported that the earth’s climate has warmed over the last 100 years, and much of the warming over the last 50 years is due to the increase of greenhouse gases from human activity. READ MORE

Grassroots organizers fight climate change

October 26, 2009 | 4 comments

Largest worldwide event in history pushes for U.N. environmental standards legislation. READ MORE

Political party headquarters vandalized

October 26, 2009 | 0 comments

The Cleveland County Democratic Party headquarters was vandalized twice Saturday morning, and numerous windows were damaged. READ MORE

CAMPUS BRIEF: Norman 350

October 23, 2009 | 0 comments

The world’s largest global initiative to raise climate change awareness will reach Norman 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 24 at the Native Roots Market, 132 W Main St. READ MORE

Norman community members attend church-organized vigil

October 21, 2009 | 1 comment

Members of local Norman churches along with other members of the community gathered at Andrews Park Tuesday evening to remember those who die each year due to lack of health care. READ MORE

New research to prevent eye diseases

October 19, 2009 | 0 comments

Blindness and other eye diseases could be prevented using nanoparticles, a professor from the OU College of Medicine and a team of researchers have discovered. READ MORE

New program sparks interest in China among students, Norman residents

October 15, 2009 | 0 comments

The OU Confucius Institute is helping students learn all things Chinese with its new program, Chinese Corner. READ MORE

Threat of bioterrorism out of the spotlight in recent years

October 14, 2009 | 0 comments

OKLAHOMA CITY — While bioterrorism is a valid threat, the amount the U.S. spends for defensive programs is unnecessary, a bioterrorism expert told an audience Tuesday at the OU College of Public Health. READ MORE

Columnist argues importance of social networking sites

October 13, 2009 | 0 comments

Social media, like Facebook and Twitter, has given the opposition of regimes in the Middle East a louder voice, an international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues told OU students Monday in the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. READ MORE

School rivalry to generate spirit for charity event

October 9, 2009 | 0 comments

Afghanistan will feel the heat of the Red River Rivalry this football season with Operation Red River Care. READ MORE

Okla. receives failing grade in end-of-life care

October 7, 2009 | 0 comments

Oklahoma’s low ranking in end-of-life care is due to the lack of hospitals offering satisfactory end-of-life care, an OU alumna told an audience Tuesday at the OU College of Public Health. READ MORE

Campus science club hosts guest speaker

September 29, 2009 | 9 comments

The case for intelligent design is based on the same method of reasoning that Charles Darwin pioneered in the “Origin of the Species,” an intelligent design advocate told an audience Monday at Meacham Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. READ MORE

Venezuelan university professor speaks about Chavez opposition

September 25, 2009 | 0 comments

Venezuelan opposition to Hugo Chavez and his government will have a chance to gain political ground in the country only if it defines what it wants to change in the government and recognizes the successes of the Chavista movement, a professor from a Venezuelan university told an audience of students and faculty Thursday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Frontier Room. READ MORE

OU student, Miss Oklahoma, focuses on giving back to the community

September 25, 2009 | 0 comments

As a student at OU, you are not only learning how to get your degree, you are also learning how to serve others with your degree, Miss Oklahoma winner, Taylor Treat, told the 2009-2010 President’s Community Scholars Thursday in Davenport’s. READ MORE

Guest professor speaks on Darwin and creationism

September 22, 2009 | 1 comment

If you believe in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, it does not always mean you do not believe in God, Elliott Sober, a scientific philosopher and author, told an audience in Dale Hall on Monday. READ MORE

Research to help discover exercise obstacles for lesbians

September 17, 2009 | 2 comments

Researchers from the OU Department of Health and Exercise Sciences are preparing a study to evaluate barriers adult lesbian women face when trying to exercise, and how to best overcome those obstacles. READ MORE

New CIA Officer in Residence provides practical knowledge

September 16, 2009 | 0 comments

Don Hughes is OU’s new CIA Officer in Residence, coming to Norman after a stint in the Agency’s Office of Congressional Affairs. READ MORE

Tobacco scientist reveals killer facts of nicotine

September 15, 2009 | 0 comments

Victor DeNoble presented his story, “Inside the Dark Side: The Science Behind Tobacco, the Truth Behind the Lies,” detailing his work as a researcher for Phillip Morris Tobacco Company to an audience of students Monday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. READ MORE

Microbiology professor's research to help predict avian flu

September 11, 2009 | 0 comments

The spread of infectious diseases could soon be tracked using information collected from hundreds of miles in the sky, according to a researcher at the OU Center for Spatial Analysis. READ MORE

Former Army Col. discusses operations in El Salvador

September 9, 2009 | 0 comments

The U.S. could look at past effective counterinsurgency operations in Latin America to improve the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, former U.S. Army Col. John Waghelstein told an audience of students Tuesday in Nielsen Hall. READ MORE

Professors debate U.S. stance on Honduran situation

September 8, 2009 | 1 comment

On June 28, soldiers of the Honduran military stormed President Manuel Zelaya’s house and arrested him, exiling him to Costa Rica. Roberto Micheletti, former head of the Honduran Congress, was then installed as the interim president. READ MORE

Anthropology assistant professor uncovers genetic patterns

September 3, 2009 | 1 comment

New reseach challenges previous theories of continent population READ MORE

Lecture held in support of health care bills

September 2, 2009 | 0 comments

Preventive care must be at the forefront of health care reform if the U.S. wants a sustainable new health care system, Tulsa County Health Director Gary Cox told an audience of students and citizens Tuesday during a lecture at the OU College of Public Health. READ MORE

Researcher helps develop blood clot medication

August 31, 2009 | 0 comments

Deadly blood clots that form after joint-replacement surgery cause thousands of deaths each year. However, an OU researcher joined researchers around the world to discover a new medicine with the capability of preventing lethal blood clots. READ MORE

Molecule discovery could lead to quantum computers

August 28, 2009 | 0 comments

Fans of “Star Trek” might know of quantum science as a plot device writers created for the Starship Enterprise, but a recent discovery by OU researchers have moved that science fiction one step closer to science reality. READ MORE

New technology earns spot in national research magazine

August 25, 2009 | 0 comments

OU Stephenson Research and Technology Center researchers recently earned a spot in the 2009 R&D 100 for the GeoChip, a new technology that is capable of quickly and cheaply identifying functioning microorganisms in a scientific sample. READ MORE

Campus Brief: College of Medicine boosts credentials with pediatric research chair additions

August 24, 2009 | 0 comments

The Children’s Medical Research Institute has announced its recruits for four pediatric research chairs in an effort to enhance specialized pediatric care for Oklahomans in the department of pediatrics at the OU College of Medicine. READ MORE

Research grant and budding opportunity

August 21, 2009 | 0 comments

Research scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) were among 100 beginning researchers honored by President Barack Obama with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) earlier this summer. READ MORE

Genetic research could affect high blood pressure treatment

August 20, 2009 | 3 comments

OU Health Sciences Center researchers have found the first link between a recently discovered anti-aging gene and high blood pressure.Genetic research could affect high blood pressure treatment READ MORE

Wind to power OU campus by 2013

May 11, 2009 | 0 comments

OU and Oklahoma Gas and Electric formed an historic alternative energy partnership on Sept. 10. According to the agreement, by 2013, OU will be powered entirely by wind energy. READ MORE

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