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OU Board Member Featured in Media this Month
Internationally renowned Harvard scholar and Oakwood University Board of Trustees' member, Dr. David Williams, is being featured in national and international media this month.
 The September 2013 issue of ESSENCE Magazine features an interview with Dr. Williams on implicit bias, racial discrimination, and health.
Williams will also appear on a segment focusing on "Race in America," on The Katie Couric Show, a nationally-syndicated, daytime show on the ABC Network, on Friday, September 6.
Williams is scheduled to appear with the parents of Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant (an African American fatally shot in Oakland, CA, by the BART police in 2009). Please check your local listings for the time that the show airs, as the time varies in different markets.
Dr. Williams (pictured at right) also served as graduation speaker for the 2013 Class of Oakwood University graduates.
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 OU "Teacher of the Year" to launch new book
 Patti Conwell, OU's 2013 Teacher of the Year, Mother, Wife, has a new title: Author.
Conwell, the author of Nobody Ever Told Me I Might Not Get Married: One Woman's Journey To Acceptance will officially launch the book on Monday, September 16, 2013.
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OU + NASA (for PSTI training) = success
The NASA/Oakwood University Pre-Service Teacher Institute (PSTI) is an annual, two-week residential institute designed to increase college students' skills in teaching mathematics and science while incorporating technology in an elementary or middle school curriculum.
This is achieved through the development of a problem-based learning (PBL) space exploration theme. Each student is assigned to an Institute Flight Team at Huntsville's NASA facility. Students develop a lesson that they teach to children from a local school, and also teach in an elementary/middle school when they return home.
One major goal is to transfer this experience and acquired knowledge into useable lesson plans for teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Oakwood's Provost, Dr. Tim McDonald, reported at Colloquium that NASA instructors consistently rate the program conducted with Oakwood's as one of the best in the country.
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al.com: OU's "BOLTV" featured as religious Alabama license plate
 HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Texting is forbidden for drivers in Huntsville.
So, too, presumably, is grabbing up a Bible to see what "John 19" or "2Tim1v7" refers to if you see those verse references on the tag of the car in front of you.
What's for sure, though, is that, if you're even vaguely religiously literate, you'll know that the driver in front of you has paid extra to put a religious or ethical sentiment onto the personalized tag.
But then, it makes sense -- seeing as how the seven-space blank available on a personalized tag evokes a number considered "perfect" in biblical terms.
(...) "BOL TV" refers to the international program, "Breath of Life," now based at Oakwood University's campus church under the leadership of church pastor and BOL speaker-director Carleton Byrd. "LastDay" may also belong to a Seventh-day Adventist driver, since Adventists emphasize the nearness of the soon return of Jesus Christ.
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RYS " Volunteer Day" Rescheduled
The last component of the $50,000 grant (from The Home Depot) for the construction of an outdoor pavilion is a "Volunteer Day" -- which has been rescheduled for Sunday, September 22, starting at 10:00 a.m.
If you're in the Huntsville area that weekend, join us to help clean and spruce up the area surrounding the pavilion.
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OU Ambassadors schedules online
The new school year is here, and schedules are available online
for you to support your Oakwood University Ambassadors by attending a game, or watching online.
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September is National Preparedness Month!
When tornadoes struck the Huntsville/Madison County area in 2011, many good citizens of the Huntsville community wanted to help, but did not know how to assist during and after the disaster.
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training is one solution.
The Oakwood University Church is offering CERT training on Monday
evenings, September 9 through October 28, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The goal is for emergency personnel to train members of neighborhoods, community organizations or congregations, in basic response skills. CERT members are then integrated into the emergency response capability for their area.
CERT training will teach participants to:
- Understand the types of hazards most likely to affect their homes and communities, and take steps to prepare themselves for a disaster.
- Work as a team to apply basic fire and suppression strategies, resources, and safety measures to extinguish a burning liquid.
- Apply techniques for opening the airways of injured individuals, controlling bleeding, and treating shock.
- Select and set up treatment areas.
- Apply the most common techniques for searching a damaged structure.
- Use safe techniques for debris removal and victim extrication.
Register by sending an email to Mrs. Darleen Simmonds at the Oakwood University Church: dsimmonds@ouc.org.
Meanwhile, at the Huntsville International Airport. . .
al.com reported that Nursing students from Oakwood University and UAH are made up to look like "victims" of an air crash. The injury makeup was as realistic as possible to help first responders evaluate injuries, during a full-scale disaster drill at the Huntsville International Airport on September 4, 2013. Photo: Bob Gathany/bgathany@al.com.
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Team PR reaches out to the class of 2020
As part of the Huntsville City Schools' College and Career Connection Week (September 3-8), Sharon Spencer Kostencki (class of 1993) reached out to her alma mater.
 Team PR's Debbe Millet (left) stopped by Mrs. K's classroom at the Academy for Science and Foreign Language, to "tell the Oakwood story."
The 16 energetic children asked several questions about careers preparation. Information was also given for the children's parents.
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CAMROU and UAHuntsville to sponsor filmmkaker Jacob Bender
Stay tuned for more information. . . 
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