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    "The next generation must function internationally as never before and more
    emphasis needs to be placed in international and interdisciplinary programs."

    --David Boren
    President, University of Oklahoma

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    SIAS Graduation Breakfast

    Saturday, May 10, 2008

    Heritage Room OMU

    8:00 a.m.

     

    Congratulations to Professor Joshua Landis

    who received the OU Foundation Excellence

    in Teaching Award.

    The OU Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award was established in September 2006 with the first awards presented in the Spring of 2007. Nominees for this award should excel in all aspects of their instructional duties including receiving course evaluations from students that place them within the top 15% of their college’s instructors. Instructional faculty who are nominated for this award should inspire their students within the classroom, and mentor and advise students outside the classroom. They should exemplify to their students and to the University community at large the importance of a considered and reflective life of learning and teaching.

    International and Area Studies majors inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

     

    The following SIAS students, who represent the top 10 percent of their peers, will be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa on Friday, May 9 at 3:00 pm in Meacham Auditorium of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

     

    Dennis Ardis
    Andrea Chrisman
    Andrea Denhoed
    Emily Dewey
    Jessica Eastland
    Gery Godman
    Karin Jonsson
    Shannon Kay
    Garrett Merle
    James Ramsey
    Shannon Rodgers
    Rebecca Selby
    Elizabeth Sharkey
    Aaron Singleterry
    Rachel Strange
    Kathryn Thomas
    Lee Tucker
    Kathryn Warden
    Christina Castelli
    Drew Gilbert
    Daniel Johnson
    Meredith Simons
    Donovan Wood

    Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest undergraduate honors organization in the United States. Phi Beta Kappa celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Its campus chapters invite for induction the most outstanding arts and sciences students at America’s leading colleges and universities. The Society sponsors activities to advance these studies — the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences — in higher education and in society at large.

    Congratulations to Andrea DenHoed, SIAS Senior and 2008 Rhodes Scholarship recipient!

    Bryan Cole is this year's recipient of the Percy Buchanan Award.

    Congratulations! This award was created by Professor Sidney Brown, Emeritus Professor of Japanese History. The award is named in honor of Percy Buchanan, another former OU professor of Asian Studies who inspired many students during his teaching career. This award is awarded annually to the most accomplished student in the School of International and Area Studies, specializing in Asian Studies. The selection is made by the faculty of the Asian Studies program.

    Congratulations to David Miller, an International Studies major, who is this year's recipient of the Thomas W. Adams Award.

    This award includes a plaque and a check in the amount of $750.00. The title of the award winning paper is "The Legality of Israeli Settlements Within the Occupied Territories".

    The following IAS majors have been awarded scholarships from the College of Arts and Sciences for the 2008-2009 academic year. Each recipient receives a certificate, along with a monetary award:

    Brent Arens
    Robert E. and Mary B. Sturgis Scholarship


    Madison Blocker
    Leadership Scholars Program

    Trista Gipson
    Jon R. WIthrow Scholarship

    Jennifer Grover
    Second Century Scholarship

    Amanda Harris
    Robert E. and Mary B. Sturgis Scholarship

    Mary Jackson
    Robert E. and Mary B. Sturgis Scholarship

    Lessa Keller-Kenton
    Corinne Price Scholarship

    Chloe Kliewer
    Jon R. Withrow Scholarship

    Serena Prammanasudh
    Robert E. and Mary B. Sturgis Scholarship

    Christina Castelli
    G.W. & Vera Dobbs Pullin & Charles A. & Janice Pullin Drake Scholarship

    Amy Bourlon
    Second Century Scholarship

    Christine Gonzales
    Leadership Scholars Program

    Christina Jensen
    Second Century Scholarship

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