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EDMOND – The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education honored the Chickasha Economic Development Council, the city of Chickasha and the University of Science and Arts with the Regents Business Partnership Excellence award for forging a cooperative relationship that will make meaningful contributions to the economy and quality of Chickasha’s community.

With roots that stretch back before the written word, stories form the spine of the human experience as they entertain, educate and inform our experience of who we are and what we mean. This spring’s Festival of Arts and Ideas will explore Storytelling from a number of perspectives and academic disciplines beginning at 7:30 p.m. on March 11 and 12 in the Ballroom at the University of Science and Arts.

Sixteen students at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma were honored recently for their academic achievements and community and campus activities as they were initiated into Hypatia, USAO's only campus-wide honor society.

Alums from across the nation will meet on the campus of the University of Science and Arts for the 2012 Alumni Homecoming Nov. 1-4. The reunion is filled with special events for alumni of the Oklahoma College for Women, Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts and USAO.

Chickasha’s economy gets a boost of nearly $12 million yearly from the University of Science and Arts, according to a study designed to examine the 103-year-old institution’s economic impact on the local economy.

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Twelve students at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma were honored recently for their academic achievements and community and campus activities as they were initiated into Hypatia, USAO's only campus-wide honor society.

He helped to build one of the Oklahoma’s most successful global companies and now brings his energy and enthusiasm to the University of Science and Arts. Entrepreneur David McLaughlin, co-founder of Advance Food, was named by Gov. Brad Henry to the USAO Board of Regents in the spring – giving USAO an ever-widening breadth in leadership, boasts USAO President John Feaver.

Some people believe the American civil rights movement started with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, but courageous citizens were fighting indispensable battles for social justice years earlier. One of those fighters was Minnijean Brown Trickey, a member of the “Little Rock Nine.”

Trickey will deliver the keynote address at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 in Chickasha at the third annual Ray and Mary Giles Symposium on Citizenship and Public Service at the University of Science and Arts.

If the two crocodile skulls sitting on his desk don’t speak to his passion, nothing does.