The URS Modeling the Way Award is given to members of the UCO community who consistently lead by example and live the mission, values and goals of the university. Each recipient is awarded a $1,000 check and a Waterford crystal memento, funded by URS. This award went to MCOM ’s Sandy Martin.
The Citizen’s Bank Leadership and Civic Engagement Award is given to a faculty or staff member who leads by example and is involved in the community. Each recipient receives $1,000 and an engraved clock. This year’s recipient is MCOM’s Joe Hight, artist-in-residence and E.K. Gaylord Endowed Chair of Journalism Ethics.
The Masonic Endowment for Transformative Learning Award is given to organizations that exemplify the university’s commitment to provide transformative learning experiences to its students. The second-place winner is Hispanic Success Initiative, which promotes a sense of belonging to the UCO and Oklahoma City community. Co-Advised by Dr. David Duty, Lecturer in Mass Communication.
Assistant Professor Rebecca M. Quoss-Moore’s The Political Aesthetics of Anne Boleyn’s Queenship in Henry VIII appears in the recently released Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens. Dr. Lindsey Churchill presented Diggin’ the Tupes: Uruguayan and U.S. Activism, Imagination and Solidarity during the World History Association Conference, at the University of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 21-23. […]
Dr. Susan Spencer and English education major Anh Dinh spent four weeks at the East-West Institute on the University of Hawai’i at Manoa campus this past summer, attending a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Buddhist East Asia: The Interplay of Religion, the Arts and Politics. The Institute included 25 university and college […]
The Citizen’s Bank Leadership and Civic Engagement Award is given to a faculty or staff member who leads by example and is involved in the community. Each recipient receives $1,000 and an engraved clock. This year’s recipient is Joe Hight, artist-in-residence and E.K. Gaylord Endowed Chair of Journalism Ethics. The Masonic Endowment for Transformative Learning […]
The University of Central Oklahoma is the oldest institution of higher learning in Oklahoma dating back to Dec. 24, 1890, when the Territorial Legislature voted to establish the Territorial Normal School. The Territorial Legislature located the new school in Edmond, provided certain conditions were met. First, Oklahoma County had to donate $5,000 in bonds, and […]
The Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association (OBEA) recently honored University of Central Oklahoma Professional Media students at its annual student broadcast competition, with MCOM students receiving 13 awards for student-produced radio and television broadcasts. Twelve Oklahoma universities and colleges participated in the OBEA student competition, which generated nearly 230 entries. Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Enid, Woodward and […]
University of Central Oklahoma senior Kalen Russell, a strategic communications major from Muskogee, Oklahoma, recently earned recognition as one of Campus Compact’s 2018 Newman Civic Fellows. Campus Compact, a Boston-based nonprofit organization, working to advance the public purposes of higher education, announced 268 students, including Russell, who comprise the organization’s 2018 cohort of Newman Civic […]
Lauren Vargas graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma Department of Mass Communications with a B.A. in Journalism/Public Relations in 2001. By day, Lauren Vargas is the Head (Mad Hatter) of Employee Digital Engagement and Collaboration for at Fidelity Investments– one of the world’s largest providers of financial services. Vargas was previously named by The […]
