Academics Stories
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Once again, OC was honored to have faculty and students present at the 2013 Christian Scholars Conference over the weekend.
Formally titled the Thomas H. Olbricht Christian Scholars' Conference, scholars present more than 90 peer-reviewed and generative sessions to advance scholarship, collaboration and engaged dialogue.
This year’s conference theme was "Crises in Ethics: Theology, Business, Law and the Liberal and Fine Arts."
Key speakers included ethics author John Dean, religious ...
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OC public relations student Jessica Estrada recently won a Zenith Award for PR Research.
One of the top national public relations competitions for undergraduate students, the Zenith Awards contest is the only one in which work previously completed in a class or internship may be submitted.
Estrada’s entry was an assignment completed in the OC class Public Relations Principles, which she took last fall.
For the past two years, the senior from Duncanville, Texas, has also served as an ...
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KFOR recently featured Oklahoma Christian University professor Jeff Price in its "Is This a Great State or What?" series.
Price leads OC's gaming and animation program, which earned Oklahoma Christian national recognition from The Princeton Review. OC received honorable mention on The Review's list saluting the best undergraduate schools in the U.S. and Canada to study video game design.
Price also has vintage arcade games like Space Invaders, Pong, Defender and Centipede in his OC office. He ...
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Microsoft’s chief operating officer and a respected minister and missionary will speak to the graduates at Oklahoma Christian University’s spring commencement ceremonies on April 26-27.Oklahoma Christian will present degrees to 265 undergraduate candidates from 61 majors on Friday and to 54 master’s degree candidates from 13 areas of study on Saturday. Kevin Turner, who is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Microsoft’s ...
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Four Oklahoma Christian University psychology students won awards at the Great Plains Students’ Psychology Convention in Missouri. Seniors Natalie Nalley and Suzanna Sawyer won first place for their research study, “The Effects of Strategic Self-Presentation and Social Comparison on Social Disability.” Sawyer said she and Nalley spent most of the fall 2012 semester researching and preparing their study to submit to the conference. When the conference came in March, the pair ...
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Inspired by Kid President, Oklahoma Christian University students are coming together Monday night in the Thelma Gaylord Forum to help raise funds for a 2-year-old overcoming liver cancer.
Gabbi Cook's parents were missionaries in Peru and planned a quick visit to the U.S. in August. Unexpectedly, doctors found cancer in Gabbi's liver and her parents have had to give up their missionary calling. Luckily, Gabbi received a new liver right before Christmas, but her family has incurred numerous ...
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Oklahoma Christian University’s student chapter of the American Marketing Association received awards for the fourth year in a row at the AMA International Collegiate Conference. Oklahoma Christian’s AMA chapter earned awards for Excellence in Fundraising and Chapter Planning at this year’s conference. More than 140 universities attended the conference in New Orleans March 21-23 to hear marketing professionals from across the country speak on the theme, “Live the ...
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For the second year in a row, the National Speakers Association honored Dr. Burt Smith as the Oklahoma Chapter’s Member of the Year.
This follows the American Marketing Association’s Oklahoma City chapter renaming its Lifetime Achievement Award after Smith, a professor of marketing and MBA advisor in Oklahoma Christian’s School of Business Administration. He received the organization’s only lifetime achievement award in 2008.
These awards reflect Smith’s servant ...
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The Journal Record featured Oklahoma Christian University's recognition by The Princeton Review as of the best undergraduate schools in North America to study video game design.
OC receives nod for video game studiesBy Brian BrusThe Journal Record
Sometimes it can seem as though academic studies at Oklahoma Christian University are all fun and games, associate professor Jeff Price said. That’s as it should be, actually. The university recently earned an honorable mention on The Princeton ...
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Oklahoma Christian University earned honorable mention on The Princeton Review’s just-published list saluting the best undergraduate schools in the U.S. and Canada to study video game design. Compiled by The Princeton Review, one of America’s best-known education services companies, the 2013 list names 15 undergraduate schools in rank order and 15 undergraduate schools as honorable mentions. OC is the only Oklahoma university and one of just two schools ...
