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OSU student Rachel Harper doubles as a race car driver

Fri, Dec 04, 2020

OSU senior Rachel Harper is double majoring in accounting and agriculture business but she still finds time to pursue other interests, including most recently driving a race car.

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Spears Business honors 2020 grad students

Fri, Nov 20, 2020

The Spears School of Business held a special event Nov. 20 in recognition of graduate students who are scheduled to received advanced degrees in at the end of the fall 2020 semester. The acknowledgement, held at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center, honored business graduate students from nine master’s degree and doctorate programs who will not be able to participate in traditional commencement ceremonies this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Students win more than $10,000 in Virtual Pitch and Poster competition

Fri, Nov 20, 2020

A number of Oklahoma State University students were recently awarded more than $10,000 in scholarships while competing in the 2020 Virtual Pitch and Poster competition hosted by the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship.

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Spears Business celebrates 2020 graduates

Mon, Nov 16, 2020

The Spears School of Business held a special celebration Nov. 13 at the Business Building on the Oklahoma State University campus marking the graduation of 2020 undergraduate business students and featured Spears Business Dean Ken Eastman congratulating each graduate.

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Boone Pickens Statue Coming to Oklahoma State Football Stadium

Fri, Nov 06, 2020

A catalyst for the rise of Oklahoma State football and a presence at every Cowboy home game for years, the legendary Boone Pickens will be permanently honored with a statue at the stadium that bears his name.

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FAPC and OKSBDC partner to support business growth

Wed, Nov 04, 2020

The Oklahoma State University Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center and the Oklahoma Small Business Development Center are working together to support entrepreneurial and small businesses in the state.

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Spears announces 2020 Hall of Fame inductees

Mon, Oct 26, 2020

Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business has announced that four distinguished alumni – Karl Bovee, Lucina and Kyle Thompson, and Shane Wharton – will be inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame for 2020 in a ceremony to take place in 2021.

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Parsing COVID-19 data

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

An analysis of digital health records from thousands of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals around the country has led to the development of technology to predict the risk of death for those with COVID. Researchers at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Systems Innovation (CHSI) in Tulsa and Stillwater are using digital health data to build predictive models of disease risk that could improve treatment and outcomes.

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Ties that bind

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

Dr. Bill Ryan of Oklahoma State University’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management has spent his entire academic life at OSU, from earning his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees here to spending a career as an administrator and professor. Ryan has chaired or served on 81 Ph.D. and master’s degree committees.

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A global honor

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

Dr. Ramesh Sharda was named a 2019 Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) at its International Conference in Information Systems in Munich, Germany, in December. He was one of only two Americans honored by the international organization representing information systems research, education and practice.

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Tracking human traffickers

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

Oklahoma State University professor Dr. Miriam McGaugh is an expert in analyzing large amounts of data and recognizing patterns within it. While an epidemiologist for the Oklahoma State Department of Health, she used health care data to create community public health initiatives. Now the assistant professor of professional practice in business analytics in the Spears School of Business is taking on the tragedy of human trafficking in the United States.

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An early collaboration

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

Sierra Steelman was nervous when she signed up in 2019 to participate in Oklahoma State University’s Freshman Research Scholar program. She didn’t know what to expect and certainly wasn’t planning to get a research paper published in a peer-reviewed journal, a rare achievement for an undergraduate student.

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