2013 News Archives
January 2013
February 2013
Winners of 2013 Newman Young Poet's Awards Announced
Assistant Director of University of Wisconsin Marching Band Named New Director of the Pride
OU Unveils Historical Plaque from the University's First Building
President's Day of Learning to Provide Educational Opportunity for OU Alumni and Friends
U.S. Ambassador Pickering to Speak at OU on March 1
OU: 'One of the Country's Strongest Public Research Universities' Says Accreditation Commitee Report
March 2013
OU Board of Regents Elects Dunning, Clark as Officers
OU Board of Regents to Meet in Oklahoma City on March 27
OU Arbor Day Celebration 2013 to Include Picnic, Tree Planting
University of Oklahoma's Institute for Quality Communities to Host First Placemaking Conference
OU to Begin Accepting a Common Admission Application Effective for the Fall 2014 Entering Class
One of Nation's Leading Critical Thinkers to Deliver OU Commencement Address
April 2013
OU Commencement to Feature Journalist Fareed Zakaria, Photo Highlights of Graduating Class and Music
University of Oklahoma Students Achieve Perfect Grade-Point Average
Preston Larson Receives Regents' Award for Superior Staff at OU
OU Ranks No. 2 on EPA's College and University List of Green Power Purchasers
OU Designated Big 12 Conference Champion in EPA's College and University Green Power Challenge
Awards Ceremony, Ice Cream Social Among Events Lined Up for 2013 OU Staff Week
OU Regents' Alumni Awards to be Presented to 10 Outstanding Individuals
Jerod Coker to Receive OU's Carl Albert Award
OU’s Kyle Harper Selected for Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Five Outstanding Individuals to Receive Honorary Degrees at OU Commencement May 10
OU's Kenneth Meador Named Recipient of Truman Scholarship
OU Libraries Acquires Rare Grassi Manuscript
OU Student Earns Goldwater Honors
OU To Keep Max Westheimer Tower Open
Kenneth Evans, Dean of OU's College of Business, Named President of Lamar University
May 2013
OU Research Staff Elected to Lead National and Regional Research Organizations
OU To Replace Lost Diplomas of Tornado Victims
OU Student Receives Fulbright Award to Conduct Study at Kodaly Institute
OU Professor Recipient of Grant from the Simons Foundation Fellows Program in Theoretical Physics
OU Class of 2013 Gift to be Brick and Stone Sign on Campus' South Entrance
OU Microbiologists Elected as Fellows in the American Academy of Microbiology
OU Board of Regents to Meet in Norman May 9
OU Advises Attendees of Prohibited Items Inside the Stadium at Commencement
Five OU Students Granted Critical Language Scholarships
University of Oklahoma Announces College Convocations and Commencements
Four OU Students Receive Boren Awards for International Study
June 2013
OU Professor of Music Irvin Wagner Receives Neill Humfeld Award
OU Student Musician Adam Pajan Wins Top Honors at International Organ Competition
Financial Gift Advances Collaborative Ovarian Cancer Research
OU Board of Regents to Meet in Ardmore June 24, 25 and 26
Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club Attracting Top Women Amateur Competitors
OU Researchers Collaborate on $20 Million NSF EPSCoR Grant
OU's Cole Townsend Selected for Fulbright Scotland Summer Institute
July 2013
August 2013
Leading Religion and Interfaith Scholar Eboo Patel to Speak at OU
OU's Ben Carlson of Norman Wins Boren Award for International Study
Two of Oklahoma's Top 10 Most Endangered Artifacts Under the Care and Preservation of OU
OU President David Boren and Coaches Join New Sooners for Class of 2017 Photo
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Chief Curator Named Interim Museum Director
September 2013
Jan Marie and Richard J. Crawford University Club Earns Excellence in Construction Award
Multi-million Dollar Grant Addresses Region’s Transportation Infrastructure
OU Listed as one of the "25 Best Universities to Work for" in 2013
Multi-million Dollar Grant Targets Medically Underserved in Oklahoma
Private Giving to OU Tops $194 Million in FY2013
OU-Tulsa Programs Grow From Community Support
OU Board of Regents to Meet in Tulsa on September 18
International Art Historian and Author to Speak at Saxon Lecture September 12
October 2013
"The Globalization of Antisemitism" to be Topic of Lecture Set for Nov. 11 on OU Norman Campus
OU Receives More Than $8 Million in Matured Planned Gifts Thus Far in FY2014
OU Board of Regents to Meet in Lawton Oct. 23
OU Selected as First Public University in the Nation to Win Davis Cup
Director of OU's A&E Services Announces Retirement
Harvard Professor and Award Winning Author to Deliver Rothbaum Distinguished Lectures at OU
November 2013
OU's Holiday Lighting Celebration to be Held Dec. 3 at David A. Burr Park
Institute for Quality Communities Executive Director Announces Resignation
OU DMA Candidate Adam Pajan Wins Top Honors at National Organ Competition
Headington Hall Dedication Ceremony Scheduled for Nov. 16
Military Times Announces the 120 Best Colleges for Vets this Veterans Day
Two National Debate Powerhouses to Host Public Debate on 'Stand Your Ground' Laws
OU's Sutton Center Presented Award for Prairie Grouse Conservation Efforts
Pediatric Epilepsy to be Topic of Lecture Set for Nov. 19 at OU Children's Hospital
Former Congressman Mickey Edwards to Speak at OU
Ballew Neff to Serve as Director of Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at OU
December 2013
TU, OU Move Forward to Expand the Community Medical School in Tulsa to a Four-Year Program
OU Professors Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
$1 Million Gift Will Establish Journalism Chair in Honor of Longtime OU Staff Member Paul Massad
OU Professor Receives National Fellowship to Complete Biography on Ancel Keys and the American Diet
University of Oklahoma to Dedicate Wayman Tisdale Specialty Health Clinic
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