Fri, Aug 22, 2025

To give back to the university he loves deeply, Keith Garton and his partner, David Sheehan, have committed the largest single gift ever directed to the OSU School of Media and Strategic Communications. The gift will establish the Garton Family Endowed Chair for Media and Strategic Communications, as well as endowed funds for rural journalism and student organizations.

Fri, Aug 22, 2025

As the hub of life sciences at Oklahoma State University, the College of Arts and Sciences is committed to research that bridges disciplines and creates breakthroughs for the betterment of societies around the world. With hundreds of faculty, staff and students across the departments of biology, psychology, and microbiology and molecular genetics, there’s no easy way to fully capture the extent of transdisciplinary life science research within CAS. However, highlighted here are three of the many projects bringing distinction to the college and the university.

Fri, Aug 22, 2025

For over 10 years, Oklahoma State University’s Department of Mathematics has hosted High School Math Day, welcoming nearly 200 students annually from schools across the region to Stillwater’s campus. “Math is an incredibly useful and exciting way to understand the world,” said Dr. Jeff Mermin, associate professor of mathematics and High School Math Day coordinator. “Too often, classroom math feels like memorizing formulas, but step outside that standard curriculum and there’s so much to discover.”

Fri, Aug 22, 2025

From the soil of Oklahoma’s prairie to the Arctic ice caps of the North Pole, Oklahoma State University researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences conduct transdisciplinary research covering everything from how people interact with each other to data collected from satellite imagery.

Fri, Aug 22, 2025

For the first time since the 1970s, Stillwater saw the return of OSU Arts Week — a celebration of the visual, performing and applied arts at Oklahoma State University. The OSU Arts Committee led the initiative, with key support from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre, Greenwood School of Music, and Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History.

Tue, Sep 10, 2024

Cro recognizes the vast opportunities for growth and unity among CAS’s 24 departments, which include 850 faculty and staff, and nearly 7,000 students. And like puzzling out the nuances of language, she welcomes this type of challenge.

Fri, Sep 06, 2024

Growing up in Prague, Oklahoma, Dennis Heinzig yearned for more than what he found in his small town of around 2,300. For him, the answers to life’s questions wouldn’t be found there.