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OSU’s 5th annual Cowboy Country Polar Plunge features 150 participants

The 2026 Cowboy Country Polar Plunge, uniting the Stillwater Polar Plunge and Oklahoma State University’s “Chilly Cowboy,” took place Feb. 21 at the Colvin Recreation Center’s outdoor pool, bringing the community together to raise critical funds for more than 12,400 Special Olympics Oklahoma athletes and Unified partners statewide.
A group of people in camouflage uniforms leap simultaneously into a swimming pool during a Polar Plunge event, with a brick wall and event sign in the background.
Former OSU President Hargis honored at ribbon cutting for Hargis Leadership Institute

Tue, Oct 14, 2025

Oklahoma State University’s Hargis Leadership Institute will continue to mentor the leaders of today and tomorrow; now in a newly renovated space. Nearly four years to the day after its launch, HLI was the site of another ribbon-cutting ceremony. This time, for its revamped home on the second floor of the Student Union.

OSU FoundationPresident Jim HessHargis Leadership InstitutePresident Burns Hargis
OSU breaks ground on Boone Pickens Human Performance Innovation Complex

Mon, Oct 13, 2025

Oklahoma State University celebrated the official groundbreaking of the Boone Pickens Human Performance Innovation Complex on Saturday morning. Located in OSU’s athletic village and just north of Sherman E. Smith Training Center, the facility will integrate cutting-edge research to redefine the science of human performance and health innovation in Oklahoma and beyond.

Lance WalkerHuman Performance and Nutrition Research InstituteResearchOSU FoundationPresident Jim Hess
Reflecting on OSU's $250M investment to build world class veterinary teaching hospital

Fri, Sep 19, 2025

The combined efforts of faculty, staff, alumni and students were rewarded when the Oklahoma Legislature approved a $250 million funding package to construct a new veterinary teaching hospital.

College of Veterinary MedicineBoren Veterinary Medical HospitalveterinariansPresident Jim HessVet Cetera magazineState magazinelegislators
Just getting started: Hess speaks on vision for OSU's future

Fri, Sep 19, 2025

In August, Oklahoma State University President Jim Hess welcomed a large crowd at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center to celebrate a record-setting funding package from the state Legislature that will drive the future of veterinary medicine in Oklahoma for decades to come.

Student LifeState magazineMental Healthland-grant universitiesscholarshipsScholarships and GrantsPresident Jim Hess
Heritage Society continues to shape OSU's future through transformational giving

Fri, Sep 19, 2025

The prestigious group consists of alumni and friends who have made a commitment to OSU through a will, revocable living trust, life insurance, life-income gift, retirement account designation or other deferred gift arrangement.

Boone Pickens Legacy ExperiencePresident Jim HessOSU FoundationState magazinedonors
Hamm Institute hosts American Energy + AI Initiative event, spotlighting urgent needs to power AI

Fri, Sep 12, 2025

Leaders gathered at the Hamm Institute for American Energy at Oklahoma State University on Thursday to focus on one urgent question: how will the United States power the rise of artificial intelligence?

Hamm Institute for American Energy at OSUPresident Jim HessArtificial Intelligence
OSU System breaks all-time enrollment record for higher education in Oklahoma

Mon, Aug 18, 2025

The largest higher education system in Oklahoma welcomed a record number of students this week for the start of the fall semester, eclipsing the previous record set in 2013.

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