NEWS
Thirty-five students and three faculty members within the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma received honors from the Broadcast Education Association during the Festival of Media Arts.
BEA received 1,900 entries from over 300 schools for the awards this year. Last year, 28 Gaylord College students received recognition.
“I'm so proud of all the award winners,” said David Craig, interim dean of Gaylord College. These awards speak powerfully to the creativity and passion for excellence that our students and faculty show every day. In this competition, they are going up against their counterparts from all over the country. This recognition confirms not only the quality of the students we have in Gaylord College, but also the quality of the investment our faculty and staff are making in their lives and careers.”
OU Nightly placed third nationally for Television Newscast. Sooner Sports Pad placed third in the Video Sports News Program Category.
About the University of Oklahoma
Founded in 1890, the University of Oklahoma is a public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. As the state’s flagship university, OU serves the educational, cultural, economic and health care needs of the state, region and nation. OU was named the state’s highest-ranking university in U.S. News & World Report’s most recent Best Colleges list. For more information about the university, visit ou.edu.
The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents announced today the appointment of Mackenzie Wilfong, J.D. as executive secretary. Wilfong will join OU on June 4 from Tulsa Community College, where she has served as vice president of legal affairs, general counsel and chief legal officer for the past seven years.
For the second time in five years, OUPD in cooperation with the OU Athletic Department will host the Tacflow Academy’s Police Sniper Response to a Public Venue™ training. Taught since 2008, the curriculum has trained more than 1,000 international, federal, state, and local SWAT personnel charged with protecting large sports venues, including Super Bowls and Olympic games. This training is not open to the public.
David Ciesla, D.D.S., M.S., MAS, clinical assistant professor and director of the pediatric dentistry residency program at the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry, was recently awarded the Ann Page Griffin Humanitarian Award by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry.
