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I trust you all had a good Thanksgiving Break and are gearing up for the end of semester. As always, this semester has flown by and it seems only yesterday that we had Welcome Week for new graduate students. Wherever you are in your program, beginning, middle or making the final push to finish, I wish you all well. We have been busy in the Graduate College too. In addition to handling the paperwork for nearly 7,000 graduate students, we are taking a close look at all our processes and practices with a view to making them more effective and responsive to the needs of the graduate community. |
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| Conference and Collaboration in India | |
Skeletal fluorosis in India was the subject of a research trip by a University of Oklahoma Ph.D. fellow in Environmental Science and a master’s student in Public Health and Industrial Hygiene. In December 2010, Laura Brunson was awarded the T.H. Lee Williams International Travel Scholarship from the OU Graduate College. The award made it possible for her to travel to Nagpur, India, where she presented research at an international water conference. Brunson is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Science at OU’s Norman campus. She also is an EPA STAR fellow and a Robert Hughes Centennial fellow. Brunson was accompanied on this trip by Aimee Barrett, a Master’s student in Public Health and Industrial Hygiene... |
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Improving Prediction of Flash Floods  A Civil Engineering and Environmental Science graduate student and National Science Foundation fellow has been awarded $90,000 to study flash flood prediction methods. Hodges was motivated by the flooding events of Spring 2010 in the United States. Those storms specifically impacted Nashville, Arkansas and Oklahoma City. She is working toward her master’s degree in water resources engineering. |
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| Alumni Focus: Erich Sommerfeldt | |
Erich Sommerfeldt is the first of his kind. In the summer of 2011, Sommerfeldt successfully defended his dissertation, “Social Capital Networks of Media NGOs in Peru: A Public Relations Approach to Explicating Relationships in Civil Society,” and became the first person to earn a PhD from The University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism. Sommerfeldt decided to attend OU after his “awesome mentor” and doctoral adviser, Dr. Maureen Taylor, accepted a faculty position in Gaylord. “I would not be where I am today without her,” Sommerfeldt claims. |
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