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...University of Oklahoma (OU) study released last week found that minorities are underrepresented at major research universities across the country. The study—based on a survey of the National Science Foundation’s top-100 universities in each of the 15 academic disciplines—also predicted that the gap between minority representation in the general population and in academia will have a direct effect on the thinking and scientific practices of future generations. “We’ve been looking at the diversity in faculties for several years now, originally we were doing this...
...this tournament let me gain confidence in my own game, let me know that my game is big enough and that I understand it well enough to compete at a national level.”In Nguyen’s first match, against preseason No. 11 Oleksandr Nedovyesov of Oklahoma, nerves tripped him up. By the time he had adjusted to the slick courts, he had lost the first set, 6-2.“It’s not like he blew me off the court—the points were good,” Nguyen said...
...than 300 Nebraskans from forming a dozen groups for Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and they aren't the only ones. On Monday, the Obama campaign announced that over 300 Iowa and New Hampshire Republicans had decided to cross party lines to support Obama. At Obama events in Oklahoma, Kentucky, Virginia and Georgia, a good 20% of audiences routinely raise their hands when emcees ask for Republicans in the crowd. A "Republicans for Obama" website has 11 state chapters with 146 members. An August University of Iowa even found Obama running third in the state among Republican candidates, behind...
...think Oklahoma has seen this kind of enthusiasm for a Democrat since Bobby Kennedy," marveled Lisa Pryor, chairwoman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, who is not endorsing a candidate, after an Obama rally in Oklahoma City in March that drew more than 1,000 people - each of whom paid $25 to get in, and handed over their contact information. "He could be the first Democrat to win Oklahoma since...
...hardest go, getting pushed aside or even pecked to death if food, water and shelter become scarce. All that makes for a nasty nursery, but that's precisely the way the mother wants it. "The parents overproduce a bit," says Douglas Mock, professor of zoology at the University of Oklahoma, "maybe making one more baby than they can normally afford to raise and then letting it take the fall if the resource budget is limited...