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OU's Western History Collection is one of the largest collections in the world of documents and photographs, including a rare multi-volume portfolio on the Indians of the United States and Alaska by Edward S. Curtis.
OU's Research Campus has been certified by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce as Site Ready, which enables the University to capitalize on fast-moving economic opportunities and enables site selectors to readily find quality land and facilities that meet nationally established criteria in a timely fashion.
A major beautification campaign has transformed the appearance of the OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. The project has replaced a divided highway through campus with seven tiered gardens featuring traditional OU arches at each end. The new pedestrian walkway's landmarks include an OU Seed Sower sculpture at the west end, a clock tower at the east end, and a 70-foot granite fountain in the center.
For the outdoor improvements to the Norman campus — gardens, fountains, sculptures, benches — the University of Oklahoma has won first place in the education category for Beautification and Landscaping in the statewide environmental competition. Gifts of over $3 million have permanently endowed OU's gardens.
OU has strong programs in international and area studies, with an International Programs Center led by Zach P. Messitte, a foreign policy expert with a doctorate in international politics and whose experience includes working for the United Nations and CNN.
With nearly 400 doctors, OU Physicians is the state's largest physician group. Our practice encompasses almost every adult and child specialty. Many OU Physicians have expertise in the management of complex conditions that is unavailable anywhere else in the state, region or sometimes even the nation. Some have pioneered surgical procedures or innovations in patient care that are world firsts.
About 125 of OU Physicians' doctors are OU Children's Physicians. These board-certified pediatric specialists committed their training and, now, their practices to the care of children. Many children with birth defects, critical injuries or serious diseases who can't be helped elsewhere come to OU Children's Physicians. Oklahoma doctors and parents rely on OU Children's Physicians depth of experience, nationally renowned expertise and sensitivity to children's emotional needs .
The University of Oklahoma maintains one of the three most important collections of early manuscripts in the history of science in the United States. It includes Galileo's own copy of his work, which first used the telescope to support the Copernican theory, with corrections in his own handwriting.
The University of Oklahoma Libraries ranks in the top two in the Big 12 in the number of volumes held, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The University of Oklahoma Library is the largest in the state with approximately 4.9 million volumes.
OU's Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive houses the world's largest collection of political commercials. With more than 90,000 commercials, the Archive includes political advertisements dating back to 1936 for radio and 1950 for television.

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