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20 unusual facts about University of Oklahoma


Campus Corner

Campus Corner is a college-oriented commercial district in Norman, Oklahoma located directly north of the University of Oklahoma campus.

Center for Public Health Preparedness

University of Oklahoma - Southwest Center for Public Health Preparedness

Harrison Kerr

From 1949 to 1969, he served as professor of music and dean at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.

Homer L. Dodge

In 1919 Dodge became chairman of the Physics Department at the University of Oklahoma, and in 1926 he became dean of the graduate school.

Homer Levi Dodge was the Chair of the Department of Physics, Dean of the Graduate school, and founder of the Oklahoma Research Institute, at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.

Independent film project

The Independent Film Project at the University of Oklahoma is an instructional innovation of the School of Art seeking to bridge the gap between the university and the working world by using nontraditional and cross-disciplinary approaches promoting interaction between students and professionals in the film and video areas through seminars, symposia, workshops, independent film maker series, and special projects.

Institute for U.S.-China Issues

The Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma, established in August 2006, engages in research and outreach activities that seek to better understand and improve US-China relations.

Ivar Ivask

He worked as a professor of Modern Languages and Literatures in the University of Oklahoma, writing mainly on Spanish language literature.

Juanita Miller

After attending the University of Oklahoma, Juanita decided to be an educator teaching at the high school and college level.

Laurence H. Snyder

Snyder taught at four academic institutions, all state universities: North Carolina State College (1924-1930) as professor of biology, Ohio State University (1930-1947) as professor of genetics and later chairman of the Department of Zoology and Entomology, the University of Oklahoma (1947-1958) as Dean of the graduate college and professor of medicine, and the University of Hawaii (1958-1963) as President and later professor and professor emeritus.

Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy

The Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy is the earth science unit at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Oklahoma Republican Party

Bud Wilkinson, legendary University of Oklahoma football coach (lost 1964 U.S. Senate election to Fred R. Harris)

Primou

It is currently maintained by Bruce Roe, and Steve Kenton at the University of Oklahoma.

Robert H. Perry

Robert taught at the University of Oklahoma from 1958 to 1964, and was department director of Chemical Engineering from 1961 to 1963.

Roseto Effect

The Roseto Effect was first noticed in 1961 when the local Roseto doctor encountered Dr. Stewart Wolf, then head of Medicine of the University of Oklahoma, and they discussed, over a couple of beers, the unusually low rate of myocardial infarction in Roseto compared with other locations.

Sarkeys Energy Center

Sarkeys Energy Center is the largest and tallest building on the campus of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States.

Shuffle offense

Shuffle offense as an offensive strategy in basketball, developed in the early 1950s by Bruce Drake at the University of Oklahoma.

University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences

The University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences, also known as the College of A&S (or simply CAS), is the liberal arts and sciences unit of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.

University of Oklahoma School of International and Area Studies

The University of Oklahoma School of International and Area Studies, also known as just SIAS, is the international studies unit of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, USA.

Yun Wang

Currently Professor in the University of Oklahoma's Department of Physics and Astronomy, she has published over 90 refereed papers, most recently specializing on probing the dark energy in the Universe, with particular attention to the use of supernovae and galaxy redshift surveys as cosmological probes, studies of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy, and the measurement of cosmological parameters.


2005 University of Oklahoma bombing

The 2005 University of Oklahoma bombing occurred on October 1, 2005 at approximately 7:30 p.m. CDT, when a bomb went off near the George Lynn Cross Hall on Van Vleet Oval on the University of Oklahoma (OU) main campus.

Aldwyn Sappleton

He is also a four-time All-American track and field athlete, while playing for the Oklahoma Spooners, at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Bishop Gorman High School

DeMarco Murray, American football running back, currently with the Dallas Cowboys after attending the University of Oklahoma

Christian Claudio

Although born in Puerto Rico, Christian Claudio was raised in Oklahoma, where he attended Putnam City High School and then University of Oklahoma, where he was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, and from where he graduated in 1995.

Dick Snider

He is most widely known for his humor column in the Topeka Capital-Journal, and he was campaign manager for former University of Oklahoma football coach Bud Wilkinson's failed 1964 US Senate campaign.

Dominique Byrd

Byrd went to Southern California where he made a 2004 All-Pac-10 honorable mention, and was best known for catching two one-handed touchdown passes, one of which was in the Orange Bowl victory against University of Oklahoma.

Drisan James

James is best known for his performance in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, where he caught two touchdown passes against the University of Oklahoma and helped lead Boise State to a 43-42 victory in overtime.

Ed McQuarters

After a stellar career at the University of Oklahoma, Ed McQuarters was selected in the eighteenth round of the 1965 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals, but after one year was released.

Edward K. Gaylord

They have founded the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, and have given the University of Oklahoma contributions totaling over $50 million in the last three decades, resulting in a large proportion of the buildings on campus being named after one family member or another.

Harold Keith

1977: The Obstinate Land: Cherokee Strip Run of 1893, Pub by Thomas Y. Crowell (ISBN 0-690-01319-1) (1978 * 1978: Oklahoma Kickoff: An Informal History of the First 25 Years of Football at the University of Oklahoma, and of the Amusing Hardships That Attended It, Pub by Univ of Oklahoma Pr (ISBN 0-8061-1485-1)

Hook 'em Horns

Former UT and current Oklahoma City Thunder basketball player Kevin Durant frequently displays a Hook 'em Horns hand sign, much to the chagrin of local residents, due to the long and storied rivalry between UT and the University of Oklahoma Sooners.

Jerry Schmidt

Schmidt has coached at Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Florida, and Oklahoma as an assistant, director, coordinator, and director of sports enhancement.

Jitendra Nath Mohanty

In his long academic career, he had taught at the University of Burdwan, University of Calcutta, New School for Social Research, University of Oklahoma, and Temple University and has held visiting professorships at many renowned universities.

King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

KSAU-HS has a number of licensing agreements to develop its academic programs with prestigious universities worldwide: University of Sydney (Australia); University of Liverpool (UK); South Alabama University (USA); Flinders University (Australia); Arkansas University (USA), Thomas Jefferson University (USA) University of Maryland (USA), Maastricht University (Netherlands), The University of Oklahoma (USA) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (USA).

Lee Roy West

Born in Clayton, Oklahoma, West received a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 1952, and was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, from 1952 to 1956 (in active service from 1952 to 1954).

Mark Redman

A 1992 graduate of Escondido High School in California, he played baseball and football before attending The Master's College in Santa Clarita, California for one year and then transferring to the University of Oklahoma.

Martin Keane

Born in Jamaica, the six foot-nine Toronto native Keane attended Northeast junior college in Nebraska before transferring to the University of Oklahoma and then the University of Washington.

Paleontology in Oklahoma

In 1931, University of Oklahoma geologist J. W. Stovall received word that a road crew grading for the construction of U.S. Route 64 uncovered a rich deposit of fossils east of Kenton.

Preston E. Peden

Following his public school education, he attended the University of Oklahoma at Norman, Oklahoma, receiving his A.B. in 1936, and from the law school of the same university, his LL.B. in 1939.

Ruben Kihuen

He is currently completing his Master’s degree in Public Administration at the University of Oklahoma's Nellis Air Force Base campus.

Salina, Oklahoma

Among those speaking at the inaugural event were Governor-Elect Leon C. Phillips, Dr. M. L. Wardell of the University of Oklahoma, Mr. Thomas J. Harrison of Pryor, and Yvonne Chouteau, a descendant of Jean Pierre Chouteau.

Shane Conlan

Conlan capped his junior season at Penn State in the 1985 national championship game in the Orange Bowl against the University of Oklahoma.

Susan Winchester

Susan Winchester, born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Oklahoma.

The Atlas of Middle-earth

Karen Wynn Fonstad had earned a Master's degree in Geography, specializing in cartography, from the University of Oklahoma, and worked as Director of Cartographic Services at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh before "retirement" to raising children and writing atlases of fictional worlds.

The Oklahoma Heismen

Narrated by the University of Oklahoma graduate and 3-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris, The Oklahoma Heismen tells the story of the Oklahoma Sooners Heisman Trophy winners Billy Vessels, Steve Owens, Billy Sims, and Jason White as they go from small-town America into the winners of college football's greatest individual prize.

Warren Harper

He was an assistant at Oklahoma from 1968 to 1981, coaching such linebacking greats as Rod Shoate, George Cumby and Daryl Hunt.