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In March 2015, the University of Oklahoma shut down the Oklahoma Kappa chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity when a video surfaced that showed members singing a racist chant as they rode a bus. [31] University of Oklahoma president David Boren gave members two days to leave the fraternity house. He also expelled two students who he said ...
Barbara Hillyer, founder and first director of the university's Women's Studies program, which was the first of its kind in Oklahoma [4] Leon Quincy Jackson (1926/1927–1995), architect, professor, early African-American architect in Oklahoma and Tennessee [ 5 ]
Returning to Oklahoma in 1919, he wrote for the Oil and Gas Journal. Travelling to Los Angeles, Riggs worked as an extra in the theatre, and a copyeditor at the Los Angeles Times, which published his first poem. Riggs entered the University of Oklahoma in 1920, and taught English there from 1922–1923. [5]
The campus of the university is located in Norman, and it has facilities in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. [1] Joseph Harroz Jr. is the fifteenth and current president of the University of Oklahoma, Harroz Jr. succeeded James L. Gallogly on May 9, 2020 after serving as interim president for the previous year. [2]
George W. McLaurin (September 16, 1894 – September 4, 1968) was an American professor, the first African American to attend the University of Oklahoma. He was the successful plaintiff in an important civil rights case against the university, McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950).
The Bizzell Memorial Library, known also as Bizzell Library, is a five-story brick structure located at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.It is an elaborate Collegiate Gothic or Cherokee Gothic building, designed by the architecture firm Layton Hicks & Forsyth and erected in 1928 during the administration of OU's fifth president, William Bennett Bizzell.
On March 10, 2015, the University of Oklahoma board of regents approved the initial construction of "Phase 1" to renovate Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. [22] The renovation is expected to cost approximately $160 million and anticipated completion is just prior to the start of the 2016 football season.
Born in 2005, the ARRC found its roots at the University of Oklahoma (OU), and it now resides within the Radar Innovation Lab (RIL). While its inception was primarily in the pursuit of advancing radar technology for scientific exploration, the ARRC has since broadened its horizons, embracing a diverse array of radar applications and the field ...