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Unexpected Discovery: Spears student Lily Bolka stars in Netflix documentary

Tue, Jun 28, 2022

Lily Bolka is a 2022 Oklahoma State University accounting graduate who was adopted as a baby from China and discovered through DNA testing she has two cousins who were also adopted and in the U.S. Together, they embarked on a journey to find any connections to their birth families in China. Bolka and her cousins, Chloe Lipitz and Sadie Mangelsdorf, star in the Netflix documentary, Found.

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A Family Affair: Spears student heir to restaurant dynasty

Tue, Jun 28, 2022

For many fairgoers, the State Fair of Texas event means fried foods, livestock shows, Big Tex and carnival rides. For Josey Mayes, a Dallas native and recent marketing and entrepreneurship graduate of Spears Business, the fair means a longstanding tradition of hard work to earn the family’s livelihood for the year.

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Cooking for the Crown

Tue, Jun 28, 2022

As the former chef for the British Royal Family, Darren McGrady traveled the world with Queen Elizabeth II preparing locally sourced cuisines for her and her guests which highlighted each location and event.

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Meeting Martha: Famed lifestyle mogul Stewart comes to Oklahoma for speaker series

Tue, Jun 28, 2022

After a two-year postponement because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Spears School of Business welcomed Martha Stewart to Oklahoma.

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Spears Business research initiative focuses on issues impacting businesses, communities

Tue, Jun 21, 2022

Spears School of Business faculty will have the opportunity to take advantage of the school’s Seed Grant Initiative allowing them to collaborate and strengthen public impact research through interdisciplinary projects that focus on contemporary issues that impact society, businesses and communities.

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MBA students win at Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup

Thu, May 05, 2022

A team of two Oklahoma State University MBA students were among the big winners at the 2022 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup, winning first place and $23,000 in prize money.

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Students win more than $50,000 in prize money in Riata Business Plan Competition

Wed, May 04, 2022

The Oklahoma State University School for Entrepreneurship and the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship have named the winners of the 2022 student competition to create business plans for innovative startups.

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Unfinished Business: Ventura graduates more than three decades after illustrious OSU baseball career

Tue, May 03, 2022

After 1,182 hits, 16 years as a player, six Gold Gloves, five years as a manager, two All-Stars and a World Series appearance, Ventura did look back. For all his baseball success, something still nagged at him: he never graduated.

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Nominations for Cowboy100 sought from OSU-owned or OSU-led businesses

Mon, May 02, 2022

Applications and nominations are being accepted for the 2023 edition of the Cowboy100, celebrating the fastest-growing and top 10-revenue generating OSU graduate-owned or OSU graduate-led businesses.

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Join FAPC at Pawnee Nation College for the Food Freedom Act Workshop

Fri, Apr 29, 2022

The Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center will host a workshop on opportunities available through the new Homemade Food Freedom Act.

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OSU students compete in first Datathon

Thu, Apr 28, 2022

A team of Oklahoma State University students Dania Crivelli (MBA), Eli Lucas (Statistics) and Felicia Mudjialim (MSIS), coached by James Forbes of Hobby Lobby, won first place and $1,000 scholarships at the inaugural OSU Datathon, hosted by the Data Analytics Club.

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Spears student graduating at 19, next stop: law school

Wed, Apr 27, 2022

Joe Stone may not know what to do when he wakes up Sunday, May 8. For the first time in nearly two years, the Spears School of Business economics major won’t begin his day concerned with his latest homework assignment, when his next big project is due or if he’s studied enough for his next test.

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