May 7, 2021
The annual academic summer camp for high school students associated with Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math and Science program will begin on the Alva campus with move-in day on Sunday, May 30, from 4 to 6 p.m.
The students will live in university housing while on campus and will eat their meals in Coronado Café. All students go home every Thursday after lunch and return to campus every Monday.
This five-week camp will finish on July 1; however, all students will return July 12-16 for a cultural field trip.
Jaunita Dotson, Upward Bound director, said the program currently has enrolled students from Aline-Cleo, Alva, Burlington, Cherokee, Fairview, Ringwood, Timberlake and Waynoka and are able to accept additional students in the eighth through 11th grades from these schools. All students will receive hands-on learning experiences in a variety of morning classes that run Monday through Thursday.
Two graduates recognized as Jack Welch Scholars
May 6, 2021
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst will honor the exemplary achievement, initiative and leadership of some of its most talented and accomplished graduating seniors during Undergraduate Commencement ceremonies taking place Friday, May 14 at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. Four smaller, socially distanced ceremonies will take place at 9 a.m., 12 p.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. due to COVID-19 safety protocols.
Ten members of the graduating class will be honored as 21st Century Leaders at Undergraduate Commencement:
Jason Biundo of Burlington, Mass., is a Commonwealth Honors College student who is graduating with degrees in biology and neuroscience. He was named Residential Life Peer Mentor of the Year. In his sophomore year, he joined the Moorman Lab, a neuroscience lab that studies motivation and addiction, and propelled that experience into being accepted into an immersive summer program in computational
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Mario Chacon is an artist warrior who uses his talent to document Chicano and indigenous history and social justice issues. His work, including murals throughout San Diego, evoke strong emotions that become a lasting call to action against injustice.
Chacon, 67, took his first art class at age 50, but his journey as an artist began long before that.
He grew up in Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles, during the Chicano movement of 1960s and 70s. He remembers the high school walkouts by thousands of Chicano students who protested unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools.
“The walkouts were the most formative experience for me,” Chacon said. “It exposed the racism, the brutality … the excesses that police will take even on children who are protesting for a better education. It was very instrumental in me forming my opinions as well as my career goals and my artistic vision.”
The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is expanding into the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in an effort to improve ârecruitment, retention and resourcefulnessâ for students, faculty and staff.Â
According to a Wednesday email from the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the expansion will allow the university to fill the needs of the campus community, especially in preparing students for âlives of success, meaning, service and positive impact.â The shift will also help make OU more accessible and attainable, and continue to make the university a place of âbelonging and emotional growthâ for all.Â
More than 20 OU employees and 15 student employees from the Accessibility and Disability Resource Center, the Inclusion Council and the TRIO Programs â which include Project Threshold, McNair Scholars and Upward Bound â will join the team. According to the email, parts of the transition have already begun, with all bu
Longtime CEO of North Dakota Association for the Disabled dies at 80
Ron and Faye Gibbens built the charitable nonprofit North Dakota Association for the Disabled from an informal Grand Forks support group for parents of children with disabilities. 7:11 pm, May 3, 2021 ×
Ron Gibbens
The co-founder, retired CEO and only board president in the nearly 46-year existence of the charitable nonprofit North Dakota Association for the Disabled has died at age 80.
Ron Gibbens died in hospice care Sunday, May 2, at the Grand Forks home of his son, Mike.
Inspired by Mike, who has cerebral palsy, Ron and Faye Gibbens built the charitable nonprofit North Dakota Association for the Disabled from an informal Grand Forks support group for parents of children with disabilities.