OU named top in nation for undergraduate journalism degrees for Native Americans
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine has listed the University of Oklahoma as the best place in the nation for Native Americans to receive an undergraduate degree in journalism. Read more at the Diverse: Issues website.
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Technology Diplomacy with the U.S. State Department and South Asian Students
In May and June, 20 university students from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka visited the University of Oklahoma as part of a U.S. State Department grant to study social media.
Technology was a unifying force throughout the workshop. The students used new Apple iPad 2 tablet computers to take notes, conduct web research, view media, and to take and edit photos and video for their own blogs and social media sites.
A central component of the program was the Facebook page (www.facebook.com/OUNewMedia). Here the students shared articles and posted updates of the program. The page remains a connection point for the participants as they put what they learned to practice in their home countries.
OETA featured the institute on June 22 as part of the 21st Century Classroom series on Oklahoma News Report. Watch the video on the OETA website. |
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Charles Chao, 1991 MA, leads Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter
Charles Chao, 1991 MA, is the man who has helped to get China micro-blogging with Sina Weibo - the country's answer to Twitter. Around one in five of China's half a billion internet users are said to have a Sina Weibo account, making it a huge player in the country's social media scene.
Chao became CEO of Sina in 2006, and says that despite having around 100 million users, now is not the time to start monetizing the platform. He talked to CNN about the rise and rise of social media in China.
Watch the interview with Charles Chao on CNN's Executive Insider.
Sina Weibo was also mentioned in a recent Economist magazine article discussing China's internet development. Read that article here.
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N. Bird Runningwater named to board of Peabody Awards
The University of Georgia has named N. Bird Runningwater, 1994 journalism and Native American studies OU graduate, as one of three new members of the George Foster Peabody Awards Board.
Runningwater is director of the Native American program at the Sundance Institute. Previously, he oversaw the Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program, served as executive director of the private philanthropy organization, Fund of the Four Directions, and as a program associate in the Ford Foundation's Media, Arts and Culture Program. Currently based in Los Angeles, he is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with degrees in journalism and Native American studies. He received his master of public affairs degree from the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
Runningwater was named JayMac Young Professional in 2008.
Read more about him and watch a video about his career on the Distinguished Alumni page of this website.
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Tiara Blue, MPW 2011, receives first place in the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference
Tiara Blue, 2011 Master in Professional Writing graduate, received first place for her manuscript in the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference held at the University of North Texas. The manuscript, a memoir entitled "White Trash Tiara," was prepared as Blue's graduate project for completion of the Master of Professional Writing program. Her graduate committee chair was Debra Chester, with Professor Mel Odom and Graduate Director Meta G. Carstarphen also sitting on the committee. The memoir "captivated me with its style, honesty and insight into how mental illness can affect a family," says Carstarphen. Blue received a check for $3,000 and will have her book published by the University of North Texas Press. She will also meet with literary agent Jim Donovan to discuss representation. The prestigious conference brings together writers, journalists, educators and the publishing community to discuss the writing craft. |
Dari Nowkhah, 1994 journalism grad, to anchor ESPNU 24-hour college sports channel
ESPN's Dari Nowkhah has been promoted to anchor position on the network's popular 24-hour college sports network, ESPNU in Charlotte, N.C. Since joining ESPN in 2004 as an ESPNEWS anchor, Nowkhah has established himself as a college sports expert hosting College Football Overdrive, College Football Live, and SEC Network studio shows, as well as regularly anchoring SportsCenter. Additionally, this past January, Nowkhah and Mel Kiper Jr. debuted ESPN Radio's weekly Dari and Mel Show (Saturday's from 8 a.m. - noon ET).
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2011 Distinguished Alumni and Young Professional Named
The Jaymac Alumni Association is proud to announce the 2011 Distinguished Alumni and Young Professional honorees:
- Mick Cornett, 1981, Mayor, Oklahoma City
- Howard Price, 1971, President, Multi-Net Marketing, Inc., Colorado Springs
- Kari Watkins, 1986, Executive Director, Oklahoma National
Memorial & Museum, Oklahoma City - Jake Basden, 2006, Director of Publicity, Big Machine Label Group, Memphis
An award ceremony in their honor will be held on Wed., October 20, 2011 at Gaylord Hall.
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SWOSU honors Stanley Vestal
 Southwestern Oklahoma State University recently awarded a bachelor's degree posthumously to Walter Stanley Campbell, also known as Stanley Vestal, the Western history author and longtime professional writing professor at the University of Oklahoma.
Because of political issues, Southwestern's ability to grant degrees was suspended for a time in 1908, so Campbell never received an actual degree from the university. Campbell was also Oklahoma's first Rhodes Scholar. He played football while at Southwestern and also taught literature courses when the English department's director was on leave.
University officials say Campbell sailed to England as Oklahoma's first Rhodes Scholar and entered Merton College at Oxford University, where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees.
Vestal was the head of the professional writing program at University of Oklahoma for nearly 20 years before his death in 1957. He began the program in the English department before the program moved to the journalism department.
Read more at the SWOSU website.
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Daniel Lapham, 2006 journalism, receives first Emmy for OETA documentary
 Daniel Lapham, 2006 journalism grad, received his first professional Emmy from the Heartland Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).
Lapham was one of a group of photographers nominated for their work on "The Science of Composing" episode of OETA's "State of Creativity" documentary series. Watch the episode on the OETA website. |
Watch for the new issue of Pulse!
 The Pulse Alumni magazine is at the printer and should be coming to your mailbox by early August. The magazine is overflowing with news and information including student, alumni and donor profiles, class notes and updates about J-School programs.
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2010-2011 Officers
Nancy Coggins President
James Tyree
Vice President
Ja'Rena Lunsford Secretary/Treasurer
Jolly Brown Pugh
Immediate Past President
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