College of Arts and Sciences

Fri, Aug 22, 2025

For the first time since the 1970s, Stillwater saw the return of OSU Arts Week — a celebration of the visual, performing and applied arts at Oklahoma State University. The OSU Arts Committee led the initiative, with key support from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre, Greenwood School of Music, and Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History.

Thu, Aug 21, 2025

Professors from Oklahoma State University’s Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics received a $3 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship award to launch the Accelerating Transdisciplinary Training of an Oklahoma Workforce for the Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Revolution program.

Wed, Aug 20, 2025

On Aug. 1, Dr. Ty Hawkins officially started as the newest member of the College of Arts and Sciences leadership team at Oklahoma State University. After a successful nationwide search, CAS hired Hawkins for the role of associate dean for academic programs. He most recently held the position of director for the University of Central Arkansas’ School of Language and Literature.

Wed, Aug 20, 2025

Discussions surrounding borders have become increasingly prominent in recent years. “Step across this line” challenges visitors to rethink the meaning of borders through art, how they divide people, cultures and lands. What happens when someone steps across them?

Mon, Aug 18, 2025

For the first time in its history, the International Physicists’ Tournament will be hosted in the United States — at Oklahoma State University. In May 2026, around 200 faculty and students from 21 universities in Europe, South and Central America, Africa and Asia will come to Stillwater to compete in the “World Cup of undergraduate physics research,” said Dr. Flera Rizatdinova, head of the OSU Department of Physics.

Fri, Aug 15, 2025

Two faculty members and two graduate students from Oklahoma State University’s Boone Pickens School of Geology recently returned from a 5-week international research expedition aboard the R/V Roger Revelle, a research vessel operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From June to July, the OSU team of Dr. Ashley Burkett, Dr. Natascha Riedinger, Amanda Harding and Monica Hinson joined 29 scientists from 12 institutions to collect sediment and seawater samples across the Labrador Sea. The expedition was part of a National Science Foundation-funded project “A Porewater Perspective on Benthic Sources of Neodymium to the North Atlantic” and focused on how seawater chemistry is both preserved in and influenced by seafloor sediments.

Thu, Aug 14, 2025

This summer, five more students are putting the finishing touches on their projects and will present their findings to Dr. Niblack in October.

Wed, Aug 06, 2025

“Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition 2025” will open Aug. 19 at the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art for the first time.

Fri, Aug 01, 2025

The Department of Physics at Oklahoma State University recently added new equipment to its Cowboy Microfabrication Corral, which provides industry-grade tools and resources for faculty and students across OSU campus. Formally known as the Crystal Growth Lab — which had been around for decades — the Cowboy Microfabrication Corral needed a rebrand after receiving an “influx of new equipment that was not specific to crystal growth,” said OSU physics assistant professor Derrick Meyers. “The CMC is run by the physics department but is set up as a user facility for anyone to be able to utilize.”

Mon, Jul 21, 2025

Leadership Oklahoma recently announced its Class 38 cohort, and among those chosen is Oklahoma State University’s Dr. Caitlin Barnes. Barnes, who serves as director of outreach programs and academic initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor in the Boone Pickens School of Geology, is one of just 48 professionals in this year’s Leadership Oklahoma. She is also the only faculty or staff member from OSU.

Wed, Jul 09, 2025

Eighty-two years ago, the Allied invasion of Italy began in Sicily. The operation preceded landings at Salerno in the Campania region, and with it the push to take Rome. In May, leaders of the Oklahoma National Guard revisited that same terrain along with Oklahoma State University Department of History professor David D’Andrea. Stopping at sites in Campania where Oklahomans of the 45th Infantry Division valiantly took part in a vital campaign of World War II, the dignitaries paid homage to the lives lost and sacrifices made. This was one of the first steps in the Guards’ planned “Thunderbird Trail” project, for which D’Andrea is serving as historical adviser.

Thu, Jun 26, 2025

Tessa Dorrell competed against 39 other women on June 7 at Rose State University’s Performing Arts Center in Midwest City.