UCO faculty are invited to schedule a class tour of The Center, which houses the UCO Women’s Research Center and BGLTQ+ Student Center, to learn about resources available to students. To schedule a tour fill out this form. Additionally, the Center’s sexual health ambassadors be available to present to classes about researched-based and sex-positive sexual […]
Zachary Scalzo joins UCO’s Department of English as an Artist-in Residence. Scalzo earned his M.F.A. in Drama– Playwriting from the University of Calgary in 2020. He also holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature– Translation Studies from Florida Atlantic University. Two plays by Scalzo (“Us” and “Taking […]
Earlier this summer, a group of students from the UCO women’s, gender and sexuality studies program marched in the Northwest Arkansas Pride Parade as representation for the Elder Tree Women’s Center, a lesbian-owned, women-centric event center and gathering place in Fayetteville, Ark. The students attended the pride festival as part of an oral history project, […]
June 19, or Juneteenth, is recognized as the oldest celebration acknowledging the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger, leading a company of about 2,000 Union soldiers, read General Order No. 3 to the citizens of Galveston, Texas. “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with […]
The UCO College of Liberal Arts honored its exceptional students at the 2022 Honors and Awards Ceremony on April 29 at the UCO College of Liberal Arts South Wing Lecture Hall. Letter from the Interim Dean It is one of my greatest privileges as interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts to welcome […]
Dr. Ken Kickham, UCO political science chair and professor, was featured in WalletHub’s piece on the “Most Fun Cities in America.” WalletHub asked a panel of experts about a variety of topics from increasing the vaccination rate to making the most of a budget, and Dr. Kickham weighed in. Follow this link to read the […]
Dr. Wendy Barnes, Artist in Residence in the Department of English, was recently awarded a New Jersey Council for the Arts fellowship for her memoir The Hunger Year. Dr. Barnes will be reading, on April 21, as part of the University of Oklahoma’s Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series. Barnes recently participated in a reading of […]
Is April indeed the “cruelest month,” as T. S. Eliot writes (The Waste Land), or is it the season of sweet renewal, as Chaucer promises, when “showers sweet” bathe the parched earth and nourish budding flowers (The Canterbury Tales)? This April, I suspect, may be a bittersweet month for all of us, as we celebrate the […]
UCO ProMedia students won 26 media awards in the Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association (OBEA)’s student competition, sweeping the Multi-Media Journalism and Audio Podcast Entertainment/Talk categories. The following students were recognized in the Video category at the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters (OAB) conference in March: Lauren Couch (Video Directing), Joseph Morales (Documentary-Short), Allison Miller and […]
The Broncho Speech and Debate Team will represent UCO at the speech and debate national championships, which will begin in April. The debate team of Zachary Huffman and Kyle Wendland has qualified to the National Debate Tournament hosted by James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, April 1-5. Zach and Kyle qualified as one of the […]
