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| In Other News | OCTOBER 15, 2003 | Events |
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NSU celebrates 80 years as fed depository McCasland gift to fund CU endowed chair SWOSU receives $4.5M in grants, contracts and cooperative agreements OSU-Tulsa professor addresses Taiwanese Conference
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nets catfish rodeo
But, the agriculture students at Eastern Oklahoma State College call it fun. Eastern instructors call it learning and money. Students at the Wilburton college harvested more than 3,500 pounds of catfish recently by seining two of the aquiculture research ponds on the 5,000-acre college farm. More on catfish. Enrollment at Oklahoma’s colleges and universities sets recordAccording to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, total headcount is up 4 percent this fall compared with fall 2002. A total of 179,333 students have enrolled in classes this fall, the highest total enrollment ever for the state system. The number of new freshmen has jumped dramatically, increasing 8 percent. State Regents released the information as part of the “Fall 2003 Preliminary Enrollment Report for Oklahoma Higher Education.” More on enrollment. OU to be partner in $40 million engineering research center Ground-breaking sensing technology that will improve forecasts and warnings of such weather hazards as tornadoes and flash floods will be the focus of a new $40 million research center in which the University of Oklahoma is a primary partner, the National Science Foundation announced Oct. 1. Funded in part with a five-year, $17 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere - one of only four new ERCs - is expected to increase the warning time for tornadoes, flash floods and other severe weather disturbances, and provide more accurate forecasts than ever before. The center will be based at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. More on OU weather research. Power line technology degree announced
OSU-Oklahoma City has recently launched a new degree program to meet the growing needs of the utility industry. Co-developed with OGE, Oklahoma electric cooperatives, and municipally-owned power entities, the Power Transmission and Distribution Technology degree is designed to prepare individuals for a career in powerline installation and maintenance technology. More on power line technology.
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Oct. 23-24 - RSC Spirit of the Dance Oct. 23-Dec. 18 - NOC art exhibit Oct. 30 - SWOSU small business seminar |
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