Education

The Vietnam War and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be key topics of discussion April 19 at the Oklahoma State University history department’s speakers forum The Vietnam War: Contested Legacies and Memories. The free event is scheduled for 3:30-5 p.m. in Room 035 of South Murray Hall on the Stillwater campus and features three military history experts.

With a tight budget and an undeveloped city block in the heart of downtown, the City of Stillwater needed help to execute a vision for Block 34. City officials turned to Oklahoma State University’s College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology and their interdisciplinary design project.

A 375-foot-long traveling version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be on the Oklahoma State University campus next week, allowing area residents the opportunity to pay tribute to those who served and the more than 58,000 who died during the Vietnam War.

The Southern Region Water Conference will focus on optimizing water use and protecting water quality.

Mollie Tully-Detamore, Oklahoma State University alumna, has received the Oklahoma Higher Education Reading Council Beginning Teacher Award. This award is given to a teacher in his or her first three years of teaching who is dedicated to literacy development and literacy integration in the classroom. Tully-Detamore was recognized for her efforts at the Oklahoma Literacy Association Annual Conference on the OSU-Tulsa campus on April 6.

Longtime educator Sandy Major is the new director of the Cleo L. Craig Child Development Laboratory effective August 1, 2019, the Oklahoma State University College of Human Sciences recently announced.