News and Notables

IAEM-USA Announces Winners of the 2011 IAEM-USA Uniformed Services Awards Competition

Oct. 17, 2011 (Falls Church, Va.) – The USA Council of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) has announced the winners of its IAEM-USA 2011 Uniformed Services Awards Competition. The awards will be presented at the IAEM 59th Annual Conference & EMEX 2011, Nov. 11-17, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The IAEM-USA Military Uniformed Services Emergency Manager of the Year and the IAEM-USA Civilian Uniformed Services Emergency Manager of the Year awards recognize individuals serving in the uniformed services of the United States who have consistently demonstrated significant contributions to the field of emergency management while continuously self-developing as emergency managers.

POLITICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS EXCEL

(2011)
Edward Echohawk, a graduate student in Political Science was found to be the top overall Cadet in his regiment which consists of 480 Cadets! Mr. Echohawk is the number one Cadet who is prior service with two deployments already under his belt.

(2010) R. Blake McMahon was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During his time at OSU, Blake has been an active member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. In addition to serving as Secretary of the OSU German Club his junior year, he is currently President of the Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science) Honor Society. He has received a dozen scholarships, awards, and other recognitions for his academic excellence, including the Janice and J.I. Gibson Scholarship, the Mary Blackford Scholarship, the James and Norma Blossom Scholarship, the OSU Academic Excellence Scholarship, the R. Bynum and Clarice Smith Scholarship, and was named the 2010 Political Science Outstanding Senior. Blake applied to and was accepted at six different top 25 Political Science Ph.D. programs, receiving first-tier financial awards at each one. He has also recently received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a highly competitive award that provides $30,000 per year for three years to support graduate study. He will begin doctoral work at the University of California at San Diego in the fall. Click HERE for more information.

(2009-2010) Sadie Stockdale was born in Saint Louis, Missouri. While at OSU, she has received numerous awards and honors. As a Freshman, she was named as a Top Ten Freshman Women. Since then, she was named as the Top Greek Sophomore, Junior and Senior. Sadie was recently named a 2009-2010 College of Arts, Sciences Top 10 Senior, and a 2010 Outstanding Senior. After graduation with Honors, Sadie will pursue a Master’s of Education, while working for Teach for America.

(2009-2010) Greg File was born in Shattuck, Oklahoma. While at OSU, he has received numerous awards and honors.  He has received the Harold V. Sare Political Science Scholarship; the Guy R. Donnell Political Science Award and on the President’s Honor Roll for three years. Greg was recently named the 2009-2010 College of Arts and Sciences Top 10 Senior has received a Departmental Honors Award. After graduation, Greg will pursue a Master’s of Political Science at Oklahoma State University.  During his studies, he will specialize in international relations and comparative politics. 

Justin Lollman was born in Waukomis, Oklahoma. While at OSU, he has received many awards and recognitions. He has been on the President’s Honor Roll during his entire Undergraduate career. Justin recently received the Arts and Sciences Alumni Scholarship, the Wentz Scholarship and a fellowship with the Clinton Global Initiative. After graduating with Honors, Justin plans to attend law school has hopes of serving in the non-profit sector as an advocate for low-income and impoverished clients.  
 
Anna Facci, Tulsa Oklahoma: A&S Alumni Scholarship
Jamie Vickery, Del City, Oklahoma: A&S Alumni Scholarship
Steven Webster, West Des Moines, Iowa: Fourjay Foundation Scholarship
John Hess, Bixby, Oklahoma: Fourjay Foundation Achievement Scholarship

REGENTS PROFESSOR ROBERT DARCY

Regents Professor Robert Darcy is set to retire after 40 years of service to OSU. Dr. Darcy has had a distinguished career, publishing over ninety academic papers, co-authoring three books, and has held positions in various countries. While at OSU, Dr. Darcy developed a tradition of working closely with his students on research projects. This method of teaching provided students with a unique opportunity to conduct meaningful research and provided them with publishing opportunities. His classes have published the Oklahoma Women’s Almanac, educational supplements for the Oklahoman on Oklahoma Women’s History, Oklahoma African-American History and Angie Debo’s Oklahoma. His classes have regularly published their research in Oklahoma Politics, the journal of the Oklahoma Political Science Association, and the Oklahoma Bar Journal. For more information on Dr. Darcy’s retirement, please click HERE.

DR. DARCY AND HIS CLASSES RELEASE THE OKLAHOMA WOMEN'S COUNTY STATUS: BASELINE STATISTICAL REPORT

28 April 2010

The Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women, the Women’s Archives at the Oklahoma State University Library and students in Bob Darcy’s Spring 2009 and Spring 2010 Women & Politics classes teamed to produce a comprehensive statistical profile of the status of women in each of Oklahoma’s 77 counties.  The Report was released at the Commission’s Solutions Initiative Summit, Friday April 30th. The report is one of a number of collaborative endeavors between OSU and the Commission on the Status of Women in recent years. 

The 244-page report looks at sixty-one indicators in seven areas.  These include demographics, politics, economic participation, social autonomy, pregnancy, health, and criminal justice.  Sixty tables and sixty-one maps document each county’s status with color codes for high and low values.  Accompanying the tables and maps are narratives relating national and Oklahoma trends, rankings showing how Oklahoma compares to other states, and links to Oklahoma State, United States government and other organization’s websites that can be easily accessed for further information. 

2009 OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY ACHIEVEMENT

Dr. Nik Emmanuel (Assistant Professor) and Dr. Jeanette Mendez (Associate Professor) are the recipients of the department’s 2009 recognition for outstanding scholarly productivity. Both Dr. Emmanuel and Dr. Mendez had three refereed publications (in print or accepted) in 2009 in highly reputable journals including Political Research Quarterly, Democratization, Social Science Quarterly, African Humanities, and The Journal of Women, Politics and Policy. Both also have numerous projects under review and/or in progress. The department recognizes and congratulates both for their outstanding performance. For more information, please click HERE.

2010 OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY ACHIEVEMENT

Dr. Rebekah Herrick & Dr. Brenda Phillips are the recipients of the departments 2010 recognition for outstanding scholarly productivity. In 2010, Dr. Herrick distinguished herself with the publication/acceptance of four peer-reviewed journal articles in Social Science Quarterly, The Journal of Women, Politics and Policy (2), and the Journal of Homosexuality, and the completion of her third book manuscript, to be published by Lexington Press.

In 2010, Dr. Phillips distinguished herself with the publication of two book chapters in edited volumes from Vanderbilt Press and CRC Press, a manual/report for the National Council on Disability and another chapter for a National council on Disability report.She received a $20,000 grant from Mennonite Disaster Services to support her sabbatical research and she was awarded the Mary Fran Myers Award from the Natural Hazards Center/Gender and Disaster Network.

A flyer with more information about Dr. Herrick & Dr. Phillips accomplishments can be found HERE:

DR. JAMES DRUCKMAN

(March 3, 2010, STILLWATER, Okla.)  It's no surprise. Political candidates today are going where the people are on the Internet.
 
But what campaign analyst James Druckman really wants to know is if these congressional candidates are using their campaign websites strategically. On March 9, he will deliver a lecture on Campaign Communications in U.S. Congressional Elections starting at 7 p.m. in Room 035 of Murray Hall at Oklahoma State University.
 
Druckman, a political science professor and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, is one of several visiting lecturers this spring. His talk is part of the Social Science Seminar Series sponsored by the OSU College of Arts & Sciences. All lectures are free and open to the public.
 
Professor Druckman has distinguished himself as a scholar and has also earned a reputation as an excellent teacher with outstanding dedication to students, said Eve Ringsmuth, an assistant professor in political science at OSU. His visit presents an exciting opportunity for students, faculty and members of the public to interact with a high-profile scholar.
 
Part of Druckman's lecture will focus on strategies used by incumbents vs. those used by challengers in congressional races throughout the country.
 
Druckman's research focuses on political preference formation and communication, as well as campaign and media strategy. In an era of information overload, he also studies how voters make political, social and economic decisions.

DR. JASON MALOY WINS COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AWARD

Dr. Jason Maloy, Associate Professor, was awarded the 2009 Junior Faculty Award for Scholarly Excellence by the College of Arts and Sciences for his outstanding scholarly achievements. Dr. Maloy has an impressive and outstanding record of scholarly achievement.  In terms of quantity, he has published a book, 4 peer-reviewed articles, and 2  book chapters, and he has presented 6 papers at conferences. His book is published by Cambridge University Press, one of the most prestigious academic outlets, and one of his articles is forthcoming in Journal of Politics, widely recognized as one of our discipline’s top-three journals. Another appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideas, which is a leading journal in intellectual history. Still another appeared in the flagship journal of the Canadian Political Science Association (Canadian Journal of Political Science; Polity), and another in Polity, the leading journal of the Northeast Political Science Association.. The impressive quality of these outlets is a powerful testament to the outstanding quality of his work. He has an ambitious agenda for future productivity, and is already well underway on his next book project. Congratulations to Dr. Maloy!

FIRE & EMERGENCY SERVICES HIGHER EDUCATION 2009 LASTING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

On May 30, 2009, Oklahoma State University received the Fire & Emergency Services Higher Education Lasting Achievement Award.  The award is sponsored by the United States Fire Administration and the National Fire Academy. Both sponsors are agencies within the Federal Emergency Management Agency that is located in the Department of Homeland Security.  The award was presented during the 11th Annual Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education Conference held at the National Emergency Training Institute in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education Association is an organization of post-secondary institutions dedicated to enhancing the recognition of the fire and emergency services as professions.  The Lasting Achievement Award is given to those institutions that have made exemplary contributions to the professionalization of the fire and emergency services.  OSU was selected for the award for “establishing ground-breaking bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs; publishing the first and only refereed fire service research journal; hosting the first and only annual fire research symposium; and leading the fire and emergency services publishing industry by producing widely adopted training manuals and college textbooks”.  OSU representatives attending the Conference and receiving the award on behalf of OSU were:  Dr. Tony Brown, Director of Graduate Programs in Fire and Emergency Management in the Department of Political Science; Mike Sturzenbecker with Fire Protection Publications; and Clayton Moorman, Director and Eldonna Kreiger with the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress.