Few are aware of TU’s Native American origins: the Presbyterian School for Indian Girls founded in 1892 in Muskogee. Some are fighting to preserve the history and bolster Native American heritage and culture on campus, including student-led groups such as the TU Native American Student Association and the Native American Law Student Association. Both organizations lift up Native voices to prevent further erasure of these foundational stories.
Seeding the future
Next summer, TU will welcome 40 participants to the GenCyber Tulsa 2023 camp thanks to a National Security Agency grant worth $132,961. The camp is focused on introducing and applying the GenCyber cybersecurity concepts and motivating participants to pursue cybersecurity careers to two groups that are underrepresented in the industry: Native Americans and women. A main feature of the camp will be partnerships with Oklahoma Tribes and the Girl Scouts.
And the winner is …
Vegas Movie Awards winner for Best Original Score, Oniros Film Awards winner for Best Main Theme, Festigious International Film Festival winner for Best Score and New York Movie Awards winner for Original Score: These are just a few of the many recognitions that senior music composition major Kyleigh Taylor brought home last summer. With graduate studies in view and Academy Award aspirations, it is clear Taylor’s peers and mentors have fostered an environment conducive to artistic and creative growth.
Feeling collegial
The University of Tulsa has announced that the biology, chemistry, geosciences and physics departments will join nursing, kinesiology & rehabilitative sciences and communication sciences & disorders to form the Oxley College of Health & Natural Sciences in 2023-24. A structural change, this shift does not represent any changes in curriculum, faculty or physical space and has received overwhelming support from faculty and department chairs because of the potential for undergraduate, graduate and faculty research.
