Reneé Selanders
Reneé Selanders is a journalism senior returning to The Oklahoma Daily/OUDaily.com as Managing Editor.
Reneé previously worked as a Copy Editor, Diversity Beat Reporter and Co-News Editor for The Daily. She interned at The Oklahoma Gazette in summer 2008, where two of her biggest articles featured as cover stories for the weekly, magazine-style publication. She participated in the Oklahoma Institute for Diversity in Journalism as a Fellow in 2005 and again as Chief Counselor in summer 2009.
In addition to her involvement with OU Student Media, Reneé worked in Washington, D.C., in summer 2010 as a Ewing Fellow. She received the Cortez A.M. Ewing Fellowship from the political science department and spent the summer interning in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Reneé is an Ambassador to Gaylord College, a McMahon Journalism Scholar, a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and a Henderson Scholar, a volunteering scholarship organization for ethnic minority students. She has received the Latino Academic Achievement Award the past three years, and is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
In addition to studying journalism at OU, Reneé completed her Spanish minor at the Universidad de Viña del Mar during fall 2009 in Chile and studied Postmodern British Literature abroad at Oxford University in July 2009. She will complete her economics minor in spring 2011.
Reneé will graduate in May 2011, and plans to pursue an internship and then attend graduate school.
Recent Stories
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May 6, 2011A 17-percent decrease in summer enrollment numbers since 2007 has prompted university officials to redesign the way the term is ...
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April 20, 2011Funding student organizations and improving UOSA administrative functions motivated three students and one administrator to allocate an additional $12,470.20 in ...
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April 19, 2011The university’s mental-health department did not receive the extra funding it requested from student-activity fee revenues this semester even though ...
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April 18, 2011Three students and one university administrator — the Student Activity Fee Committee — were responsible for allocating more than $3.2 ...
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April 5, 2011Taking hits is defensive tackle Daniel Noble’s job, but one blind-side hit in the first half of the Oct. 16 ...
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March 28, 2011The Oklahoma Legislature’s commitment to match private donations for endowed faculty chairs just got more difficult with an Ohio couple’s ...
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March 22, 2011The Oklahoma Daily was one of two college newspapers in the U.S. to receive two of the four Gold Crown ...
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December 7, 2010Alumni, students and administrators dedicated the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education’s renovated facilities Monday afternoon, recognizing the donors who enabled ...
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December 6, 2010President Barack Obama announced his intention to renominate OU’s research vice president to the National Science Board in a presidential ...
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December 1, 2010If you had told me 10 years ago that I’d actually care about the 2010 Bedlam football game, the first ...