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C-SPAN Oklahoma City Weekend, May 5-6
C-SPAN's Oklahoma City Weekend is here!! As part of a special cross-country series, C-SPAN will air special segments highlighting Oklahoma City and Norman on American History TV and Book TV. Special programming blocks have been set aside for each network beginning with C-SPAN2's Book TV - Saturday, May 5th at 12pm ET and C-SPAN3's American History TV (AHTV) - Sunday, May 6th at 5pm ET. OU President David L. Boren, Gaylord College Dean Joe Foote and journalism alumnus Bob Burke (1970) will each have featured interviews. Additional segments will focus on the Oklahoma Land Run, the Oklahoma City National Memorial and on the state's multicultural heritage. C-SPAN has created a special Oklahoma City webpage where program listings can be found. Video segments will be posted to C-SPAN's Local Content site and will be archived in the Video Library after they air. |
Journalism alumna leaves $1 million bequest
 1943 OU alumna Mildred Nichols Hamilton, who passed away in 2010, was considered a role model for women in journalism as the first woman OU Daily editor to take her seat in the press box.
Hamilton spent most of her career as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and continues to have an impact on women in the field. She directed almost $1 million of her estate to OU to establish a scholarship endowment for women journalists in the Gaylord College, it is one of the largest in the program's history.
The first five Hamilton Scholars were announced during the Gaylord College Scholarship and Awards Ceremony on April 21.
Read more about Mildred Nichols Hamilton.
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Gaylord College recognized by Apple
On April 20, Apple named the Gaylord College as an Apple Distinguished Program. Gaylord College is the first collegiate journalism program in the United States to be named an Apple Distinguished Program for its comprehensive integration of Apple-inspired technology throughout its building and curriculum. The Apple Distinguished Program designation is reserved for academic units that are recognized centers of educational excellence and leadership.
Read more about Gaylord College's Apple-integrated programs.
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Advertising students travel to Cameroon
A team of students from Professor Jim Avery's Advertising Account Planning class recently traveled to the African country of Cameroon. The class was assigned to develop and present a marketing and advertising campaign for Americans to visit Cameroon to officials from the Ministry of Tourism.
Five teams from the class competed and the winning team members are pictured here with students from Yaoundé University: Ashley Fuksa (back row, standing in checkered shirt), Chelsey Johnston (seated, second from right), and Brennen Schleuter (seated at the computer).
Yaoundé University students prepared a companion campaign to keep fellow Cameroon residents in the country for holiday.
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Bill Hancock to receive Regents' Alumni Award
Bill Hancock (1972, journalism) will be among 11 exceptional University of Oklahoma alumni and friends who will receive the Regents' Alumni Award for dedication and service to OU in a ceremony scheduled for Friday, May 11, on the Norman campus. This will be the eighth year in a row that a journalism graduate has been named a Regents' Alumni recipient and the thirteenth journalism recipient overall.
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Louise B. Moore honored by former
OU Daily editors, students, family & friends
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Five former Daily editors - Carol J. Robinson Burr, Linda Johnson, Barbara Winn Sessions, Larry Chilnick and Karen Vinyard Waddell - led a fundraising drive to memorialize the woman who was their teacher, mentor and a cherished friend. Moore taught journalism and was the faculty adviser for The Daily for nearly 20 years beginning in 1952. On Saturday, April 21 former students and family members gathered to dedicate a 1,400 square foot state-of-the-art multimedia classroom in her honor. Gaylord Hall room 1120 is now the Louise B. Moore Learning Center. A bust of Moore sculpted by her daughter, Lou Hale, sits in the room as a legacy.
Read more about Louise B. Moore and the room dedication.
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Former Tulsa Mayor, Kathy Taylor, to deliver Gaylord College convocation speech
 Kathy Taylor (1978, broadcasting; 1981, juris doctorate) is a practicing attorney in the Tulsa offices of McAfee and Taft and will deliver the convocation address to graduates at the spring ceremony.
Taylor was mayor of Tulsa from 2006-2009 after serving for three years as the Secretary of Commerce, Tourism and Workforce Development under Governor Brad Henry.
Taylor is currently one of seven Resident Fellows for Harvard University's Institute of Politics located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In January 2012, she chose not to pursue becoming president of the University of Tulsa in favor of participating in the Harvard fellowship.
The convocation ceremony will be streamed live on the Gaylord College website on Saturday, May 12 at 4:30 p.m. It will be archived on our iTunesU page. Watch live here.
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Tornado season at Gaylord College
Long before the tornado narrowly missed the OU campus on Friday, April 13, students and faculty were focused on tornadoes in several projects across majors.
Award-winning video documents media role in tornado disasters
Professor Scott Hodgson and a team of students and recent graduates produced a video documentary that highlights the vital role broadcast media play during tornado and other large-scale natural disasters.
The seven and half minute documentary mixes live broadcast footage with post tornado interviews with local weather and news broadcasters in Joplin, MO and Tuscaloosa, AL demonstrating the life-saving benefit of early warning in an emergency. The documentary has received a prestigious Telly Award and Best of Show at the national Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts.
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Journalism class teams with Weather Decision Technologies to aggregate and report on severe weather
Professor John Schmeltzer and Dr. Julie Jones have teamed with the National Weather Service and Weather Decision Technologies to create a unique course that uses social media and multimedia to report on severe weather in Oklahoma.
The project is called StormCrowd and uses crowd-sourcing software as the platform for gathering real-time information about severe weather and the damage often left in the wake. The data is used to point first responders and media to locations with the most damage.
The tornado on April 13th was the class's first chance to really put the system into operation. The data from that day is mapped and viewable to the public at http://stormcrowd.wdtinc.com/
The partnership with WDT also extended to a special session of "Reporting from the Storm" held in Gaylord Hall as part of the National Weather Service conference. Guest speakers featured professional storm reporters and severe weather experts. The podcast from that session can be downloaded for free from iTunesU.
Student agency plans and promotes national tornado preparedness summit
After a communicator with the Oklahoma Insurance Commission made a very embarrassing faux pas in a broadcast email, the commission called in Lindsey+Asp to help plan and promote their National Tornado Preparedness Summit, which was held in March.
The student-run agency's promotion of the conference more than doubled the expected attendance for the event. The team promoted the event via a website, social media and publicity materials. The creative team also built detailed displays for the large exhibit hall.
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Alumni and benefactor inducted into Journalism Halls of Fame in two states
Oklahoma Four with University of Oklahoma journalism roots were inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame on April 26: Christy Gaylord Everest, former chief executive officer of OPUBCO; Stan Stamper (1974, advertising), publisher of the Hugo Daily News; James Watts, Jr. (1983, professional writing) of the Tulsa World; and, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Middle East correspondent Anthony Shadid, who was inducted posthumously. Read short profiles of the inductees from Newsok.com. Kansas
 Lew Ferguson (journalism, '56 and '64) was inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame on April 20 at the 120th annual Kansas Press Association convention.
Ferguson directed coverage of the Kansas political scene for the Associated Press for nearly three decades. He covered six governors' administrations and nine national political conventions. Ferguson began his journalism career in 1958. After two years at his hometown newspaper, the Ponca City News, he joined the AP and served in Oklahoma City, Sioux Falls, S.D., Minneapolis and Kansas City before becoming the wire service's Topeka correspondent in 1970. Following his retirement, he served a four-year term (2001-2005) on the Kansas Board of Regents. Ferguson was named a JayMac Distinguished Alumni in 1996 and was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2009. Read more about Ferguson's career on the Kansas Press Association website.
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