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TAHLEQUAH In a novel and innovative partnership, Oklahoma State University and the Cherokee Nation recently opened the country’s first medical school on tribal land a move observers hope will improve care in rural northeastern Oklahoma by easing the shortage of primary care providers in the region.
In January, the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation welcomed an inaugural class of 54 students to a new $40 million, 84,000-square-foot facility, which boasts anatomy, neurology and clinical skills labs; speaking and breathing “patient” mannequins on which to practice; and the latest audio-visual equipment for teleconferencing lectures between OSU’s Tulsa and Tahlequah campuses.
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Fred Bourland, examines test plots for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture cotton variety testing program during a field day at the Lon Mann Cotton Research Station near Marianna. (
UA Division of Agriculture Communications)
Fred Bourland has received the A.L. Vandergriff Cotton Pioneer Award for his cotton breeding and research from the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, headquartered in Memphis.
Bourland is a professor of cotton breeding and genetics for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
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Andrew Berner, president of Jetton General Contracting of Jonesboro, has been appointed to the board of trustees of the New York Institute of Technology, which has a program at Arkansas State University.
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