Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

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Music education sophomore Bryla Birdwell does voice exercises in Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center. Birdwell pays over $250 a semester for instrumental accompaniment.

OU fine arts students facing added costs

Jordan D'Silva March 3, 2018

Many students in the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts are facing added financial stress, paying over $250 out-of-pocket a semester for instrumental accompaniment. Most fine arts students are...

OU IT closes Boyd location

Jantzen McGhee March 3, 2018

After much deliberation, the University of Oklahoma Information Technology department has consolidated into one store. This came after the decision to close the store on Boyd this past Christmas break. The...

Hennessey Chism, ways and means chair of the Undergraduate Student Congress at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, sits in the meeting room of the Student Government Association Feb. 27.

Student Government Association uses student fees to fund campus organizations

Caitlyn Epes March 3, 2018

Student activity fees allow the Student Government Association of the University of Oklahoma in Norman to fund over 500 registered student organizations every year. For the Fall 2017 to Spring 2018 school...

Sooner spirit, Arbor Day

Sooner spirit, Arbor Day

Harrison Lofton March 3, 2018

This will be the twenty-first year that OU celebrates Arbor Day. While the university has only celebrated the holiday since 1997, tree planting is a long-standing tradition among sooners. David Ross...

Food services employees participate in a contest

Food services employees participate in a contest

Vladyslav Alforov March 2, 2018

Food services employees at the University of Oklahoma participated in the Housing and Food Services contest, an ongoing campus dining staff competition that ends in May. Increasing the employees’ knowledge...

OU students ready themselves for success

OU students ready themselves for success

Shiloh Sellers March 2, 2018

University of Oklahoma students enrolled in the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy are getting a leg up in the competitive job market. Resources provided by student organizations are helping students...

Groups of prairie grass native to the southern Plains lines the green roof of the National Weather Center in September 2017. Green roof ecosystems can reduce the cost of energy consumption in buildings. (Bret Betnar/University of Oklahoma Landscape Architecture)

Assistant professor takes over green roof project

Jackson Sharp March 1, 2018

NORMAN – A green roof project at the National Weather Center is serving as a building block for professors and students at the University of Oklahoma to help better understand rooftop ecosystems and...

OU professor recalls universitys racist history

OU professor recalls university’s racist history

Josie Logsdon March 1, 2018

Students and staff at the University of Oklahoma celebrate the final day of Black History Month commemorating the racial history at the university and discussing how to be more effective antiracism advocates. Professor...

OU senior gets his time in spotlight as lead in spring musical

Jordan D'Silva February 16, 2018

Musical theatre senior Thomas Cromer practices a tap routine Musical theatre senior Thomas Cromer will be a leading man for the first time in an OU production, starring as Jimmy Winter in Nice Work...

Fraternity membership still down in wake of SAE

Fraternity membership still down in wake of SAE

Lilly Braun February 16, 2018

Fraternity recruitment stagnant  Brandon Curtis, Phi Kappa Psi member, sits outside of Bizzell Memorial Library after a class. Curtis has noticed a stigma surrounding the greek system at OU.   The...

Cheyenne Middle School students Emmaline Ferguson and Austin Vinall demonstrate how the Raspberry Shake picks up data from students jumping on the ground.

Seismometers in schools help education, professional scientists

Kayla McCullough February 14, 2018

 Across Oklahoma, small earthquake-measuring technology is being put in primary schools to aid in the education of students and research for geologists. A “Raspberry Shake” is a small computer/seismometer...

Sou Hongchith, a sophomore from Laos, participates in a traditional dance at OUs first ever ASEAN Night.

Exquisite costumes complete ASEAN Night

Luke Hall February 12, 2018

Southeast Asian students have spent months preparing to showcase their cultures, but traditional-Asian costumes are not easy to come by in Norman, Oklahoma. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations,...

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