Fri, Mar 28, 2025

The Bible’s lex talionis, “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” (Exodus 21:24), has captured the human imagination for millennia. This idea served as a model for ensuring justice when bodily harm was inflicted. But where did such laws originate? A recent study by Yunsuh Nike Wee, Daniel Sznycer and Jaimie Arona Krem sheds light on this question, revealing links between laws about bodily damage and shared intuitions about the value of body parts.

Tue, Mar 04, 2025

After an exciting and lively competition Sunday, the new Mr. and Miss Hispanic/Latinx royalty for the Oklahoma State University scholarship pageant has been crowned inside the Student Union Theater.

Mon, Dec 02, 2024

The OSU App Center recently named the winners of the 2024 competition. Each submission aimed to provide innovation and increase productivity in the industry’s day-to-day work. App competition ideas came from multiple disciplines and a variety of undergraduate, graduate students, faculty and staff. Each winner, runner-up and second runner-up received a cash prize to acknowledge their innovative achievement.

Wed, Oct 30, 2024

Hannah Appleseth, a doctoral student in Oklahoma State University's Department of Psychology, received the R36 dissertation award from the National Institutes of Health for her project involving the impact of smoke and vapor on children’s mental health. Appleseth’s project, formally named “Tracing the Impact of Evolving Environmental Exposure to Tobacco, Cannabis and Nicotine Smoke and Vapor Emissions on Children's Mental Health Symptom Trajectories,” seeks to analyze secondary data from the NIH-supported Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program to better understand the prevalence of childhood exposure to secondhand smoke and e-cigarette aerosols.

Fri, Oct 11, 2024

The Oklahoma State University Alumni Association recently announced its Seniors of Significance for the 2024-25 academic year, and the College of Arts and Sciences topped the list with 16 of 51 students honored.

Tue, Oct 08, 2024

After decades of researching solutions for families of children with chronic illnesses, Dr. Larry Mullins is now entering the unknown: retirement.

Tue, Apr 16, 2024

Three professors from Oklahoma State University’s College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded the 2024 Excellence in Research Mentoring Award by the Vice President for Research.