Dr. Scott Greene wins the annual College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences Teaching Scholars Initiative Award! - Scott has made many contributions to the integration of teaching and scholarship during his service to the University. He is Director of the Environmental Verification and Analysis Center (EVAC). Under his leadership, the Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative was recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy as the best program of this type in the United States. He is currently teaching a Dream Course on Sustainability in the Southern Plains, and is pursuing other initiatives involving the integration of research and teaching on sustainability in Oklahoma and nearby states. Scott is also active in the development of clickers technology in the classroom. Posted: 4/24/2008
Dr. Chie Sakakibara wins the 2007
Ph.D. Dissertation Prize from the Graduate College! - Dr. Sakakibara's dissertation was titled "Cetaceousness and Global Warming Among the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska," and was written under the supervision of Dr. Robert Rundstrom.
Chie has also accepted a two-year post-doctoral position with the Earth Institute at
Columbia University in New York, beginning September 1, 2008. Her major
responsibility will be to pursue her research on impacts of global climate
change on indigenous communities in the Arctic. Posted: 4/23/2008
