NEWS
The 2024 OU Black Royalty Pageant will be held in Meacham Auditorium in Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave., at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25.
The annual scholarship event is organized and sponsored by the Black Student Association and African American Programs & Services and showcases contestants' passions for scholarship, service and cultural awareness.
Contestants compete in several on-stage categories, with an interview prior to the event. The two winners – known as Mr. & Miss Black OU – serve the community for a full academic year.
Last year’s winners were nursing major Alaneigh Bruner from Midwest City and multidisciplinary studies major Jackie Shawn Simmons.
In classic Oklahoma form, spring severe weather the weekend of April 27 interrupted a planned excursion for University of Oklahoma scholars and almost 40 Oklahomans to explore by charter bus the cultural landmark of Route 66 in the state.
OU Dance brought the former director of one of the most prestigious dance companies in the world to Norman this spring to share his choreography to one of his iconic pieces with students for this year’s Contemporary Dance Oklahoma.
Three cycles around the University of Oklahoma’s South Oval will take you one and a half miles. When students make the trek on Sunday, April 28, their laps will be for the symbolic purpose of raising awareness of suicide. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Out of Darkness Campus Walk at OU will be the first of what organizers hope will become an annual tradition centered around suicide awareness and prevention.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture Dean Hans Butzer and his partner, Torrey A. Butzer, recently received the Mayor’s Award for Distinguished Service from OKC Beautiful, recognizing the Butzers’ visionary architectural designs that have influenced many of Oklahoma City’s buildings and landmarks.
