By News Director Jared Atha
Southwestern Oklahoma State University has announced a major gift from longtime SWOSU benefactor and 1980 alumnus Mike North of Oklahoma City.
The North Family Endowment has been established to provide ongoing support to the SWOSU Department of Parks & Recreation Management.
North and his wife, Marilyn Flinchum, are enthusiastic and generous donors to many SWOSU causes including the SWOSU President’s Leadership Class and the SWOSU Charitable Hunt. They are also Founder-level investors in the SWOSU Bulldog Angels Fund, which provides assistance to SWOSU students facing crisis.
In addition to providing substantial, much-needed scholarship support to PRM students on an annual basis, the North Family Endowment will celebrate and award the outstanding PRM graduate each year via the North Family Medal recognition. The North Family Endowment will also offer the local community annual public information on PRM issues and developments through the North Family
By News Director Jared Atha
Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford recently obtained its first United States Patent, making it one of only four universities in the state that hold U.S. Patents.
The inventors named in the patent are SWOSU Department of Chemistry and Physics Chair and Bernhardt Professor of Chemistry Dr. Tim Hubin; former faculty member in SWOSU Pharmaceutical Sciences M. O. Faruk Khan; and collaborators Babu Tekwani at the University of Mississippi and Steve Archibald at the University in Hull in the United Kingdom.
The patent includes the synthesis of a large class of novel macrocyclic compounds originating in the labs of Hubin and Archibald. These compounds contain multiple nitrogen atoms arranged in ring structures that are further structurally reinforced by additional carbon-chain bridges between nitrogen atoms. These structures allow extremely strong binding to transition metal ions like iron, copper, manganese and many others.
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By News Director Jared Atha
Southwestern Oklahoma State University has announced that it will name the university’s newest history scholarship endowment in honor of the late Brenda Lu Lumpkin.
Lumpkin was raised in Weatherford and graduated from Weatherford High School in 1971. Brenda attended SWOSU and earned degrees in both 1974 and 1978. She taught at Weatherford Public Schools from 1975 to 1985. She then worked at SWOSU for two years, teaching counseling and assisting student teachers. Brenda continued to work as a counselor in the Clinton Public Schools system.
Lumpkin was a member of the First Baptist Church of Weatherford, where she was the university director for Sunday School. On May 30, 1965, she was baptized at the First Baptist Church in Butler.
By News Director Jared Atha
With Oklahoma shifting to Phase 3 of its COVID-19 vaccination roll out plan, officials in western Oklahoma encourage those who are eligible to receive the vaccine to do so as soon as possible.
Oklahoma State Department of Health District 5 Regional Director Brandi Combs says with Phase 3 enabled, that leaves a small amount of Oklahomans left who are not eligible to receive the vaccine.
Combs says point of distribution clinics in Beckham County are still being held in both Elk City and Sayre on a weekly basis. In Elk City the clinics are held every Thursday at the First Baptist Church and at the SWOSU gymnasium in Sayre every Monday. Both clinics begin at noon.