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Put 18 gray trailers together and what have you got? Utoo, the star pinch hitter for Oklahoma State University's Student Union. Its interlinked trailers delivered 18,000 square feet of replacement retail space for the university bookstore, food court and Apple Store while their normal sites shut down for OSU's $63 million Student Union renovation and expansion.
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Oklahoma State University's Old Central demonstrates how a building can survive in spite of itself. Intended as the first permanent structure for the 200-acre Oklahoma Agriculture and Mechanical College, contractor Cashcade finished the eclectic 11,000-square-foot building in June 1894 at a final cost of $25,000. Topeka, Kan., architect Herman M. Hadley designed the brick, timber and sandstone College Building (as it was originally known) to house not just classrooms, but also offices, a library, laboratories, assembly rooms and anything else the 144 students required.
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It stands out like an elaborate fold-out camper, all decked out in Oklahoma State University's orange and black, Pistol Pete glaring at all who pass by. But this cowboy wears a doctor's smock, his hat encircled by an orange heart above a solid echocardiograph line running across the 45-foot truck.
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Oklahoma State University has added new courses and an endowed chair to reflect an increased emphasis on animal welfare in American culture, school officials said. You have to look at the market forces, social changes, and the science and technology," Stillwater campus professor Steve Damron said. "And it is obvious that there is an increased interest about where our food comes from - and in the case of animals, how it's being treated.
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A researcher at Oklahoma State University is probing the inner workings of switch grass for biofuel production, and at the same time learning how to benefit major food crops like corn. Switch grass is the focus as a source of biofuel production in the U.S. because it thrives in wastelands while tolerating extreme weather conditions like drought and extreme heat, said Raman Sunkar, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Oklahoma State University.
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Hertz has introduced alternative fuel technology to another generation of drivers through its program at Oklahoma State University. The car rental company has launched a compressed natural gas fleet for students, faculty, staff and the community, said Steve Spradling, director of parking and transit services at OSU. The two Honda Civic GX sedans are the first CNG cars in the Hertz On Demand fleet.
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Mark Wilkins did not have to live in Oklahoma long before he noticed the abundance of red cedar trees. Wilkins, who has a master's degree and a Ph.D. in agricultural engineering from the University of Illinois, noticed the proliferation of the native trees when he arrived at Oklahoma State University in 2004.
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Rare is the person who doesn't relate to music in some way. That's why a singer-songwriter is spending the year in residence at Oklahoma State University's School of Entrepreneurship. Darden Smith, an Austin, Texas-based musician, is using his own entrepreneurship to give tomorrow's leaders a peek into the future. Most of them will not be musicians, but have their sights set on starting their own business or joining an industry. Smith's lessons in creativity, stick-to-itiveness and realities of the working world cross all disciplines.
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Business possibilities are already in the pipeline for Oklahoma State University's new Cowboy Technologies LLC, a for-profit company intended to fill an empty position in the school's efforts to develop startups, Chief Executive Steven Wood said. Cowboy Technologies, which was officially founded at the end of last year, is still finding its feet. The company was only recently approved by OSU's Center for Innovation and Economic Development and Wood's appointment was announced in March. A screening committee is being formed to review which business plans Cowboy Technologies should support, he said.
