university of oklahoma community impact report

Community Impact Report2016

The UNIVERSITY of OKLAHOMA ®

Mission StatementThe mission of the University of Oklahoma is to provide the best possible educational experience for our students through excellence in teaching,

research and creative activity, and service to the state and society.

FROM THE PRESIDENT 2

EDUCATION IMPACT 4

RESEARCH IMPACT 12

HEALTH CARE IMPACT 16

ECONOMIC IMPACT 24

ARTS AND CULTURAL IMPACT 26

SERVICE IMPACT 30

2016 Community Impact Report

CONTENTS

The UNIVERSITY of OKLAHOMA

2 FROM THE PRESIDENT

For the past 11 years, the University of Oklahoma Community Impact Report has documented some of the many ways in which our faculty, staff and students impact our communities, from local and statewide to national and global.

This year’s report focuses on health care. As you will see, OU faculty, staff and students make noteworthy contributions to health care in both the traditional sense – ground-breaking medical research and patient care, for example – and also in the wider, more holistic sense that addresses the overall health and wellness of mind, body and spirit.

Their contributions are varied and far-reaching. Consider these examples:

• Six of our outstanding physicians at the Stephenson Cancer Center recently were named to Newsweek's 2015 Top Cancer Doctors list.

• Faculty and students in the Department of Anthropology have partnered with Save the Children International to test new hand-washing behaviors to help avoid common childhood diseases.

• A group of nutrition science students traveled to OU in Arezzo, Italy, to learn about the Mediterranean diet, studying the concept of blue zones — where people live to be 100 years or older.

• OU-Tulsa physical and occupational therapy students helped the Center for Individuals with Physical Challenges create adaptive Halloween costumes for disabled adults to incorporate into their assistive device.

• With one in three children born today in the United States developing diabetes, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center is hosting clinical trials to help Oklahoma children with the disease.

• The OU WaTER Center is helping to develop low-cost fluoride mitigation systems to address the needs of millions of Ethiopians who are exposed to naturally occurring fluoride at levels that cause dental and skeletal fluorosis.

• A weeklong summer camp hosted by the Department of Nutritional Sciences teaches fifth-, sixth- and seventh-graders about food safety, kitchen skills and the importance of making healthful choices.

• Through his art, an assistant professor of printmaking and painting brings awareness to the capacity of individuals, families and communities to prevent diabetes, alcoholism and poverty in the Native American community.

• A doctoral student in the Health and Exercise Science Department led a team of researchers investigating how college students use smartphone health and fitness applications to start exercising and improve nutrition.


3FROM THE PRESIDENT

• More than 400 schools across the country use the Nursing Initiative Promoting Immunization Training online educational program developed by the College of Nursing.

• Engineering faculty are part of a team investigating innovative ways to improve the performance of Oklahoma homes during tornados and other extremely high-wind situations.

• More than 2,500 OU students danced for 12 hours at the 2015 Soonerthon to raise a record $561,268 for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

• Nearly 75 percent of poisoning exposure calls are safely managed at home with advice and follow-up from the Oklahoma Center for Poison and Drug Information, managed by the OU College of Pharmacy, resulting in an annual savings of $26.5 million in avoided health care costs in the state.

• A faculty member in the Communication Department conducted research to identify effective anti-smoking strategies by targeting both college-age smokers and nonsmokers.

We are proud of these accomplishments and our long tradition of positively impacting our community. We look forward to building upon that tradition well into the future.

Sincerely,

David L. Boren

• OU’s newest study centers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Puebla, Mexico, opened during summer 2015 and in the fall welcomed their first students to begin semester-long studies.

• In October, the College of Architecture opened its Community Design Center on Film Row in downtown Oklahoma City. The center gives architecture, landscape architecture, regional and city planning, interior design, and construction science students an opportunity for hands-on design experience creating livable urban space.

• The Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education is working with Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe and the St. Monica Girls School in Gulu, Uganda, to develop a basic literacy/numeracy curriculum for girls and help the nuns become better educators.

• A communication professor offered lectures and workshops on bioethics and cross-cultural care for continuing medical education credits in hospitals and medical schools, and training programs in the United States and Taiwan.

• OU-Tulsa opened the Tandy Education Center, a $6.4 million, state-of-the-art simulation and education facility. The center includes 10 exam rooms, two intensive care unit/emergency rooms with medical mannequins, a large multipurpose training room and Oklahoma's only furnished model apartment for simulations. Research shows simulation training results in improved clinical decision-making, reduced medical errors, improved patient safety and reduced overall health care costs.

Inspiring our students to dream more, learn more, do more and become more


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• More than 1,540 OU students participated in study abroad programs.

• Sixty-seven percent of OU microbiology students were admitted last year into medical schools, compared to 42 percent nationally.

• The K20 Center’s four educational games/apps were downloaded more than 12,000 times through the iTunes app store.

• Twenty-two students from 12 universities attended the inaugural OU College of Pharmacy/CVS Health Summer Symposium, at which faculty and graduate students developed a curriculum focused on self-awareness, self-development, mindfulness and team-building to prepare future pharmacists to practice the art of leadership in the profession and in the communities in which they serve.

• A Clinical Skills Education and Testing Center at the OU Health Sciences Center allows students from several colleges to practice skills and patient safety on high-tech robotic mannequins and practice diagnostic and communication skills with human patients who role-play symptoms and emotions.


5EDUCATION IMPACT

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

19,723 VISITORS FROM 381 SCHOOLS

97 SESSIONS FOR SUMMER EXPLORERS FOR AGES 4-14

5,064 SPRING BREAK ESCAPE ATTENDEES

451 ATTENDEES AT SCIENCE IN ACTION AND OBJECT ID DAY

13TH ANNUAL OKLAHOMA NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH LANGUAGE FAIR ATTENDED BY A RECORD 2,592, WHERE 1,166

STUDENTS PERFORMED IN 43 LANGUAGES

38 SCHOOLS FROM WHICH STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN EXPLOROLOGY SUMMER 2015

1,569 EGGSTRAVAGANZA PARTICIPANTS


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• Students in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and staff at the nonprofit news organization Oklahoma Watch launched a mobile-video project, “Talk With Us: Poverty in Oklahoma City Neighborhoods,” where reporters recorded short videos in which they asked low-income residents to describe pressing concerns in their neighborhoods and lives. The videos then are shown to government officials or community leaders and their responses are videotaped.

• A total of 1,854 international students were enrolled at OU for the 2014-2015 academic year. The top five countries of citizenship represented were China, India, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Iran.

• Twenty nutrition science students traveled to OU in Arezzo, Italy, to learn about the Mediterranean diet, studying the concept of blue zones — where people live to be 100 years or older — and slow food, an international alternative to fast food.

• The OU Resilience Development Institute is a professional certificate program offering a hands-on approach to resilience and recovery. Taught by top experts in the field, OUReDI equips community leaders with the knowledge and skills needed to make their communities more responsive to and able to withstand such impactful incidents as natural disasters, large-scale accidents and acts of destruction.

• The OU College of Nursing sponsors the Advanced Disaster Life Support certification, which prepares graduate nurses to respond to community needs during a crisis by providing training in triage, emergency care and managing social impact.

• Researchers in the Gallogly College of Engineering and Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education are part of a diverse group of faculty that helps teachers at secondary schools and community colleges in Oklahoma’s remote rural areas develop and implement projects for their own students that specifically address issues of rural interest and relevance.

• The K20 Center’s Oklahoma Education Technology Trust Grants to Schools Program promotes systemic school improvement, change and community renewal through technology-enriched learning community development. From 2003-2015, the program has reached 6,431 teachers and 164,051 students in 229 schools across Oklahoma.

• A multidisciplinary team composed of faculty and students in the OU College of Architecture Division of Interior Design as well as members of the OU School of Library and Information Studies, OU Community Health and Environmental Design group and Oklahoma Juvenile Justice Center addressed the challenge of encouraging reading by youth housed at the OJJC.


7EDUCATION IMPACT

• OU nursing students participated in a collaborative session with pediatric nursing students at Meyer Children’s Hospital in Florence, Italy.

• More than 400 schools across the country use the Nursing Initiative Promoting Immunization Training online educational program developed by the College of Nursing.

• The College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences opened a new weather lab and student forecast and broadcast facility in the National Weather Center.

• Through training, direct service and research, OU Outreach’s National Center for Disability Education and Training advances independent living, employment and career opportunities for persons with disabilities, while improving their lives and the communities in which they live.

• Each year, medical students and physician assistant students in the College of Medicine gather for “Great Minds Think Alike,” where they talk about the collaborations in patient care they will encounter in their future careers.

• Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education alumnus Shawn Sheehan, a special education and algebra teacher at Norman High School, was selected as Oklahoma Teacher of the Year and is a finalist for National Teacher of the Year.

• In their second year of medical school, students take such enrichment classes in the college’s Humanities in Medicine program as Art and Medicine, Literature and Medicine and Medical Reader’s Theater to stay connected to their altruistic reasons for entering medical school.

• A faculty member in the Department of Communication works with health care providers, researchers and interpreters in the United States and Taiwan to develop training programs to improve the quality of care for language discordant patients.

• In Saturday Youth Classes in the School of Dance, students from central Oklahoma learn safe and correct dance technique to help protect them from injury.

• A Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education alumna wrote Together We Win: A Children’s Book about the OKC Thunder for struggling second- and third-grade level readers aimed at filling a gap in books written for young readers that provides information on the team’s history and players as well as activities for home and the classroom.

• OU Outreach’s Sooner Flight Academy received a grant from the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission to provide more than $50,000 in scholarships and curriculum support. The SFA serves more than 10,000 students a year.


8 EDUCATION IMPACT

• By applying the world's leading business techniques and strategies for data-driven decision-making, OU is impacting student success and lowering costs for students and their families.

• The new Peggy and Charles Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering in the Gallogly College of Engineering will begin offering undergraduate degrees in fall 2016.

• The Debt-Free Teachers Program in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, funded by gifts from alumni and donors to an endowed fund, gives new graduates of the college an incentive to stay and teach in Oklahoma. Under the program, education graduates who enter such high-need areas as science, mathematics, world languages, special education or early childhood education can apply for up to $5,000 of debt forgiveness each year for four years, capping at $20,000.

• With researchers at St. Catherine University in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a Department of Communication faculty member is developing training modules for health care interpreters for American Sign Language.

Each member of the Pride of Oklahoma marching band is equipped with an iPad that compiles drill charts, sheet music and recordings of the full band, significantly shortening performance preparation time.


9EDUCATION IMPACT

The OU College of Medicine educates medical students, physician assistants, residents, fellows and graduate students, and provides continuing professional development to thousands of health care professionals.

• Through a series of complimentary professional development workshops, the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education offers Oklahoma teachers training on such subjects as classroom culture, teaching methods, and tips and tools for using technology in the classroom.

• The OU College of Law offered a new joint course for J.D. and master of public health degree students that joined law and public health students in teams to present on public health issues in front of panels of public health officials.

• OU students took top honors at the National Climate Game Jam with "Climate Conquerors," in which the player who most significantly reduces his or her country's carbon footprint wins the game.

• Two creative media production students won second place in the magazine format category of the College Television Awards for their film Hell in the Heartland, which centers on the deadly 2013 Moore tornadoes.


10 EDUCATION IMPACT

Organized by the OU Oklahoma Writing

Project in the Jeannine Rainbolt College

of Education and in collaboration with

the Oklahoma City Zoo, 144 students

participated in “Writing Safari at

the Zoo,” during which children

learned different writing genres as they

documented the animals they saw.


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• Researchers at the OU Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and Veterans Administration Medical Center have been awarded a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish the state’s first Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in Basic Biology of Aging. The center will focus on the developing field of “geroscience,” in which scientists study how aging affects disease and changes that occur in aging that predispose people to disease.

• An assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is using innovative eye-tracking technology to identify specific eye movement patterns to determine what children with Autism Spectrum Disorder attend to when learning new vocabulary.

• Faculty in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science are part of a team of researchers investigating innovative ways to improve the performance of Oklahoma homes during tornados and other extremely high-wind situations.

• An associate professor in the College of Pharmacy is examining the use of photodynamic therapy to target ovarian cancer tumors.

• In a study published in the American Journal of Public Health comparing the marketing practices of local vapor storeowners to current and banned marketing practices of the tobacco industry, a team of OU health and exercise science researchers found that vapor storeowners unknowingly use the same marketing strategies as the tobacco industry.

• A graduate student at the OU Health Sciences Center is studying how proteins transport medicines into cells.

• In collaboration with Addis Ababa University, the Ethiopia Ministry of Water and Energy and NGOs, the OU WaTER Center is developing low-cost fluoride mitigation systems using locally available and produced materials to help address the needs of an estimated 10 to 12 million people in the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia who are exposed to naturally occurring fluoride at levels that cause dental and skeletal fluorosis.

Pushing the frontiers of knowledge to broaden and transform our experience and comprehension

of the world


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• In collaboration with Emory University, Civil Engineering and Environmental Science faculty have completed a multi-year study on technological solutions to improve water quality in tertiary health facilities in Rwanda.

• To improve cardiovascular health in Oklahoma, a $15 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will advance work by researchers at the OU Health Sciences Center and the School of Community Medicine in Tulsa in collaboration with health professionals statewide.

• An associate professor in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science wrote an appendix to the 2015 International Residential Code that provides prescriptive-based requirements for construction of a residential structure meeting or exceeding a 135-mph wind event corresponding to an EF-2 tornado rating, which would provide improved structural behavior for more than 85 percent of tornadoes.

• A professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology is studying the ecology and epidemiology of highly pathogenic avian influenza, which aims to better identify and predict hotspots of H5N1 transmission in Asia, particularly China.

Using findings from recent studies,

researchers at OU Medicine’s Harold

Hamm Diabetes Center are incentivizing

patients to practice better health

habits. The study, called MOVE, will

evaluate how effective financial incentives

are motivating young people to exercise

regularly. OU researchers, collaborating

with the Choctaw Nation, developed

initial sites for the program in Hugo and

Talihina. The research program is designed

to encourage positive clinical outcomes

by improving physical fitness, lowering

blood pressure and helping teenagers learn

habits that lead to good health.


13RESEARCH IMPACT

• A team of paleontologists led by the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History’s curator of invertebrate paleontology unearthed and identified Aquilops americanus, a 108-million-year-old fossil skull, as a new species of dinosaur – the oldest member of the horned dinosaur lineage yet known from North America.

• Two OU doctoral students discovered Leptostyrax macrorhiza, a predator at the top of the food chain that lived 100 million years ago.

• Faculty and students in the Center for Restoration of Ecosystems and Watersheds and the Department of Biology documented water quality improvement and fish community recovery in a tributary to Tar Creek after seven years of sustainable ecological engineering in a mine water passive treatment system.

• Researchers from the Oklahoma Biological Survey examined how a social assessment of services could be used to weigh trade-offs among water resource uses for future watershed management and planning.

• Using observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an astrophysicist in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy and a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatories of China have discovered two "super massive" black holes in active galaxies.

• Faculty and students in the Department of Anthropology have partnered with Save the Children International to test new hand-washing behaviors to help avoid common childhood diseases.

• A faculty member in the Communication Department conducted research to identify effective anti-smoking strategies by targeting both college-age smokers and nonsmokers.

• The OU College of Law hosted the annual Eugene Kuntz Conference on Natural Resources Law and Policy, the largest event of its kind in the country, which brought the latest advances in oil and gas research to more than 550 oil and gas professionals.

• A physician at the OU Health Sciences Center is researching a treatment for an ailment that causes the heart to beat rapidly upon standing, which affects millions of Americans.

• A faculty member in the School of Library and Information Studies is researching how public libraries in Oklahoma disseminate and promote health information and programs in their communities in an effort to develop new avenues for addressing the state's health rankings.


14 RESEARCH IMPACT

An OU biochemistry professor has isolated a mosquito protein critical to the malaria parasite’s life cycle that may one day lead to a treatment that could block the transmission of the disease.

• A team led by an assistant professor of chemistry studies the viability of enzyme activation for fighting bacteria that have learned to shift growth patterns to counter antibiotics.

• The OU College of Law launched ONE J (Oil and Gas, Natural Resources and Energy Journal), which provides timely and interdisciplinary research to the energy industry.

• With one in three children born today in the United States developing diabetes, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center is hosting clinical trials to help Oklahoma children with the disease.

• A doctoral student in the Health and Exercise Science Department led a team of researchers investigating how college students use smartphone health and fitness applications to start exercising and improve nutrition and how apps were used to maintain healthy behaviors long term. The findings were published in the American Journal of Health Education.


15RESEARCH IMPACT

OU Medicine — the collective brand for OU Physicians, OU Medical Center and the OU College of Medicine — is the state’s largest academic medical complex and is home to many of Oklahoma’s premier health care facilities, including the Stephenson Cancer Center, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, The Children’s Hospital and the state’s only level one trauma center.

• The Stephenson Cancer Center Prostate and Urologic Cancers Clinic is the only facility in Oklahoma now offering a powerful new diagnostic tool for improved detection of prostate cancer. The new technology makes a more accurate biopsy possible, which leads to better patient outcomes.

• The Nuclear Pharmacy at the OU College of Pharmacy dispenses therapeutic drugs to treat hyperthyroidism, thyroid cancer and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma to clients that include 12 major area hospitals and their satellite clinics.

• The Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences works with the Oklahoma City and Tulsa zoos to coordinate CT scans of small animals to look for cancer, tumors or other abnormalities on their internal organs, bones and soft tissue.

• Fifty-four percent of OU-TU School of Community Medicine medical residents have stayed in Oklahoma; the retention mean for all states nationally is 44.9 percent.

• Since launching in 2003, Bedlam Evening and Longitudinal clinics staffed by medical students and faculty, along with students from the OU colleges of Nursing, Social Work and Pharmacy, have delivered health services to thousands of uninsured patients free of charge.

• The OU Health Sciences Center is a member of the Primary Healthcare Improvement Cooperative in Oklahoma, which supports and provides resources to physician practices throughout the state to focus on reducing cardiovascular disease.

• Managed by the OU College of Pharmacy, the Oklahoma Center for Poison and Drug Information’s nationally accredited team of pharmacists and nurses saves lives by immediately assessing poisoning risk, triaging patients to the most appropriate level of care, and providing treatment recommendations to health care providers and the public.

• A professor in the Department of Sociology studies the stigma of mental illness and the way individuals with a mental illness explain their illness.


16 HEALTH CARE IMPACT

• In a report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to the United Nations, OU College of Law students recommended passing and implementing a comprehensive law banning all corporal punishment against children in Guyana.

• Housed in the OU Physicians Department of Psychiatry, OU IMPACT is a multidisciplinary team comprising a psychiatrist, social workers, case managers, counselors and nurses that provides treatment to those who need a higher level of care than traditional outpatient services.

• Healthy Women, Healthy Futures, a preconception health program, provides services for women living in poverty who have children attending selected Tulsa-area early childhood education centers administered by Educare and Community Action Project-Tulsa.

• The OU Breast Institute, which helps provide multidisciplinary, comprehensive care for women who suffer from breast cancer and other diseases, earned national reaccreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.

Conducting breakthrough research that develops or perfects

patient cures


17HEALTH CARE IMPACT


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NEARLY 1.1 MILLION PATIENT VISITS

130,000 STEPHENSON CANCER CENTER

stephensoncancercenter.org

46,000 GODDARD HEALTH CENTER

www.ou.edu/healthservices.html


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NEARLY 1.1 MILLION PATIENT VISITS

270,000 OU-TULSAwww.ou.edu/tulsa

23,000 HAROLD HAMM DIABETES CENTER

haroldhamm.org


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• To promote medical transparency, OU Physicians became one of the first academic medical practices in the nation to post patient satisfaction survey data online for the public to see.

• OU Outreach’s American Indian Institute provides outreach services and collaborative partnerships with American Indian, Alaska Native and Canadian First Nation tribes and bands, promoting disease prevention and health; Indian education, art, culture and language preservation; and tribal leadership and organizational development.

• Patients with glioblastoma, an aggressively malignant brain tumor, now have access to a promising new treatment at OU Medicine that uses alternating electrical fields to target the disease.

• An assistant professor of sociology contributed a chapter to a book on nursing homes and the continuum of care.



• The first class of 27 medical students who will complete all four years of their medical education at the OU-TU School of Community Medicine started classes in August 2015. An educational track within the College of Medicine, in partnership with the University of Tulsa, the OU-TU School of Community Medicine focuses on community medicine with the implicit purpose to improve Oklahoma’s poor health statistics.

• To address health needs in underserved communities, OU Physicians offers medical services in four community health clinics in the Oklahoma City metro area, with the goal of preventing and treating illnesses before they demand attention in an emergency room setting.

• A professor in the Department of Physiology explores better methods for treating diabetes and cardiovascular disease through gene therapy that targets specific cells without causing the side effects often prevalent with other treatments. The research focuses on a gene called Klootho, named for the Greek goddess who carried a spindle and was thought to spin the thread of human life.

• As part of its Fit-Friendly Worksites program, the American Heart Association awarded its Gold Achievement Recognition to OU Physicians for the third consecutive year. The program recognizes companies that make the health and wellness of their employees a priority. OU Physicians also received its first Worksite Innovation Award, a designation that recognizes meeting specific qualifying criteria that demonstrate commitment to providing a healthy workplace.

• In a continuing effort to expand availability of health care services in local communities, Canyon Park Medical Group in Edmond became a part of the OU Physicians practice this year. Now known as OU Physicians Canyon Park Family Medicine, providers and staff continue to serve patients with high-quality care at the same location.

To enhance health services for women, OU Medicine formed

the Breast Health Network, a team of breast-imaging

radiologists that provides care at four Oklahoma City metro

locations. Services include digital mammography, 3-D

mammography, breast magnetic resonance imaging, breast

ultrasound, bone density/osteoporosis scanning, genetic

testing, nonsurgical breast biopsies and other advanced care.

BHN also provides services to women in underserved areas in

rural Oklahoma with the help of mobile mammogram units.



A team of nearly 20 physicians, nurses, technologists and staff

at The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center successfully

performed surgery separating 2-day-old conjoined

twin sisters.

• In a study aimed at establishing a baseline of information related to the microbiome and American Indian health, an OU-led research team discovered that the difference in gut microbes of American Indians may be the result of social practices and the built environment rather than specific connections to genetic ancestry.

• In a report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of their findings related to the right to health care of Guyana’s indigenous peoples, OU College of Law students recommended increasing access to contraception and educating native peoples to combat the high rate of cervical cancer.



• The Dean McGee Eye Institute’s residency program was recognized with a No. 16 spot in peer rankings of 116 U.S. programs. DMEI is home to the OU Department of Ophthalmology and conducts training programs for medical students, residents and clinical fellows.

• School of Dance wellness seminars feature physical therapists, orthopedic specialists, performance anxiety specialists and nutritionists to teach dance majors how to protect their health as they train for a physically and emotionally demanding profession.

• The Stephenson Cancer Center is one of a select number of centers nationwide, and the only one in the state of Oklahoma, to offer patients with known or suspected bladder cancer access to new diagnostic tools that use blue light, an improvement over traditional white-light cystoscopy.

• College of Pharmacy faculty and students participated in the annual Health and Safety Blitz at the Oklahoma City Rescue Mission, which connects the homeless and others in need to expert health and safety resources and life-saving information.

OU Medical Center is Oklahoma's largest and most comprehensive hospital, whose

unique services include:

The Children's Hospital, with Oklahoma's highest level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Comprehensive cancer care, including a Gamma Knife Center

for treating brain tumors

A Bone Marrow Transplant Center

The state's newest and largest Radiation Therapy Center



• OU College of Nursing Case Management cares for more than 1,350 participants in the ADvantage Program, an alternative to nursing facility care that provides such support services as case management, personal care, homemaking assistance, adult day care, respite for caregivers, skilled nursing and environmental modification, contributing to saving the state an estimated $300 million annually by keeping people in their homes instead of nursing facilities.

• The University Research Campus, which houses academic units and private companies that have created more than 500 jobs in Oklahoma, continues to grow with the addition of Five Partners Place.

Developing technologies that build wealth for our state

and its citizens

$ 2.191 BILLION Estimated total annual economic impact

on wage and salary income

$ 606 MILLION Estimated wage and salary income

generated in FY15 in the regional economy from sponsored research expenditures

$ 2.798 MILLION Royalty/license and patent reimbursement income revenue generated by technology

development and transfer

$ 278.7 MILLION Sponsored research expenditures

(excluding the Schusterman Center campus in Tulsa)

$ 1.924 BILLION Construction expenditures for

16-year period ending FY15 (includes the Health Sciences Center

campus in Oklahoma City and Schusterman Center campus in Tulsa)

45,619 Estimated total number of jobs

generated annually in surrounding economies either directly from

university expenditures and expenditures by students and visitors off-campus, or indirectly from expenditures by

university employees, supplier industries and other induced expenditures

For information, contact Robert Dauffenbach, associate dean, Price College of Business,

and director of the OU Center for Economic Management and Research, (405) 325-2931.


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• The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History collaborates with the Chickasaw Nation through “Adventure Road,” a marketing campaign designed to draw tourism throughout the 130 miles of Oklahoma highways within and surrounding the Chickasaw nation, including such attractions as the museum.

• Through a grant from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, faculty and students at the Gallogly College of Engineering at OU-Tulsa have engineered a traffic sensor that will replace outdated equipment currently used by ODOT to count cars, saving the state time, money and resources while improving traffic conditions for communities across the state.

• Nearly 75 percent of poisoning exposure calls are safely managed at home with advice and follow-up from the Oklahoma Center for Poison and Drug Information, resulting in an annual savings of $26.5 million in avoided health care costs in Oklahoma. The center is managed by the OU College of Pharmacy.

• In FY2015, OU was awarded 12 U.S. patents and five foreign patents, entered into 10 commercial license agreements, and filed 76 new domestic and international patent applications.

$1.818 BILLION Total University-related spending

(operating expenditures)

$ 442.9 MILLION Off-campus expenditures

by students and visitors, including attendees at museums and athletic events

on the Norman campus

$392.9 MILLION Approximate federal, state and local

annual taxes associated with OU’s economic activity

$ 1.126 BILLION Total wage and salary income

(compensation and benefits for 19,293 faculty, staff and students)

$ 2.55 MILLION Charitable dollars raised by

OU employees as part of a universitywide annual giving campaign

$ 131 MILLION Construction expenditures

for capital projects for all three campuses

$1.282 BILLION Total estimated cost

of capital projects currently under construction ($332.7 million),

in planning and design ($527.8 million) or pending ($421.1 million)

$8.94 TO $ 1 The University of Oklahoma generates

an $8.94 economic impact on area income for every $1 in state legislative

appropriations


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• Galileo’s World, an in-depth, interdisciplinary exhibition sponsored by OU Libraries that spans all three of the University’s campuses, features tools, writings and manuscripts more than 400 years old and was developed as a way to reveal the organic connections between science and the arts in celebration of OU’s 125th anniversary.

• With women from the Norman community, OU students self-published Beloved, an independent magazine aimed at filling a void in current women's publications for college-age women.

• Immortales: The Hall of Emperors of the Capitoline Museums at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art brought to the United States for the first time a selection of 20 busts from the collection of the world’s oldest museum, the Capitoline in Rome. The exhibition, which was so popular its original three-month run was extended an additional three months, offered a survey of Roman portraiture from the age of Augustus (1st century, B.C.) to the late Roman Empire (5th century, A.D.).

• KGOU Radio, a program of OU Outreach, received an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Foundation for its continuing coverage of the surge in Oklahoma earthquakes. The news report focused on a new study that linked a “swarm” of earthquakes to four specific, high-volume oil and gas industry disposal wells.

At the School of Art and Art History’s annual Fuego Friday,

members of the community participate in the ancient art of

ceramics by painting a pot or vase made by OU art students

and faculty and watching it change in the firing process.


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• The College of International Studies, in collaboration with the Norman Arts Council, launched the “Arezzo in Norman” art exhibit and welcomed several artists from Arezzo, Italy.

• In a report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to the United Nations, OU College of Law students noted the country of Guyana had failed to meet international standards dictating certain protections of Amerindian land rights. The students recommended Guyana ensure all Amerindian communities in the country have a legal title to their traditional lands.

• An Honors College associate professor is writing a biography of Ancel Keys, the pioneering heart disease researcher and early advocate of healthy eating who was the first to recognize the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet and developed the K Ration for the U.S. Army.

• The OU Arabic Flagship Program in the College of International Studies hosted the Language Flagship Annual Meeting, at which 140 attendees from around the world represented 11 different languages. A national effort to change the way Americans learn languages, the Language Flagship offers programs at schools across the United States for undergraduate students in such critical languages as Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu.

OU Social Media

TOP 5Pinterest Account in Colleges/Universities

ViralTag

TOP 10 Best University

Twitter Accounts

Education Drive

TOP 10 Most Engaging

College Facebook Pages

Varsity Outreach

TOP 25 Most Influential Colleges

in Social Media

College Atlas

Enriching communities by encouraging the appreciation

of beauty, art and people of all cultures


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OU's Day of the Dead — or Dia de los Muertos — street festival welcomed nearly 10,000 people to celebrate the centuries-old Latin American holiday through music, dance, food and activities for all ages. Grammy Award nominee El Dasa, one of Mexico’s hottest pop stars, headlined the festival.

• Exhibits at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History included “Through the Eyes of the Lynx: Galileo, Natural History and the Americas,” which showcased the written works of The Academy of the Lynx, one of the world’s earliest scientific societies, and its most well-known member, Galileo Galilei, who brought his expertise in mathematics, engineering, literature, art and medicine, expanding the Lynx’s understanding of the physical sciences.

• As part of its visiting guest artist program, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of works by an award-winning contemporary sculptor that featured five outdoor sculptures, two of which have been permanently added to OU’s campus.

• In honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in 1616, "First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare" is touring all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the OU Norman campus is Oklahoma's host for the exhibition.


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• OU collaborates with Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media to reach the state's Spanish-speaking community through such efforts as TV and radio coverage of OU events, Spanish-language commercials and the first Spanish-language televised sporting event.

• Through his art, an assistant professor of printmaking and painting in the School of Art and Art History brings awareness to the capacity of individuals, families and communities to prevent diabetes, alcoholism and poverty in the Native American community.

• OU’s Web Communications team incorporates cinemagraphs, which combine photos and video to give the impression of a moving image, into the University’s social media.

Average Per-event Attendance85,162 FOOTBALL

11,120 MEN’S BASKETBALL

5,373 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

4,550 COMMUNITY EVENTS*

2,200 CONCERTS/COMMERCIAL EVENTS**

1,850 CAMPUS ACTIVITIES***

Total Venue Attendance 128,490 SAM NOBLE MUSEUM

44,984 FRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART

33,417 NATIONAL WEATHER CENTER

*Norman Public Schools All City Band, Chorus, Orchestra, high school graduations, proms and school lunches

**Concerts, conventions, meetings, receptions, and athletic events

*** AISA Pow Wow, BSA Stomp Down, University Sing, commencements, academic convocations, and other

University/campus activities and meetings


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• In cooperation with the Oklahoma City Public Schools, Oklahoma City-County Health Department and Fields and Futures Foundation, OU Physicians provided complimentary sports physicals to more than 600 students during a three-day event.

• An OU senior committed to wiping out human trafficking created an online high school video curriculum on human trafficking that tells the story of an Oklahoma survivor and helped establish an on-campus symposium, "Off the Market: Putting an End to Human Trafficking."

• The OU Student Nurses Association in Lawton sponsored a Halloween carnival for approximately 60 inpatient children of the Southwest Behavior Center.

• Through the OU Community Health Alliance, OU medical students provide patient care and education at several charitable health clinics in Oklahoma County, exposing them to the challenges of providing health care with limited resources while developing them into more compassionate and empathetic health care professionals.

• Sooners Without Borders, a service-learning organization that promotes international and domestic development work, installed a solar irrigation pump and storage system for a school garden in El Salvador.

Engaging in good works to foster change that improves individual

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After receiving new uniforms for the 2015-2016 academic year, the Pride of Oklahoma marching band donated its old uniforms to the 20-member Sheema Pride Band in Uganda formed by an OU student.

• During OU’s one-day Big Event, 6,000 volunteers cleaned, built, planted, painted and otherwise provided community service at 150 schools and nonprofit agency sites.

• The College of Law's service contribution grew to 16,792 pro bono hours in 2015 from 5,197 in 2010.

• OU nursing students assisted the Oklahoma Medical Reserve Corps with “Operating August Outbreak,” a full-scale disaster response exercise that included medical, mental health and animal response components in which more than 125 volunteers participated.

• The Accelerated Bachelor of Science Student Nursing Association raised over $3,500 to support Camp Kesem, a recreational camp for children of parents with cancer.

• Three hundred twenty-four students and staff served as big brothers and big sisters for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Norman.


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• During the holiday season, OU coaches, student-athletes and staff participated in Boomer Blessings, volunteering at such organizations as the Salvation Army, Mental Health Association of Oklahoma and Moore Public Schools.

• In collaboration with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Oklahoma Department of Health and Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, OU Outreach’s Southwest Prevention Center helps generate awareness of the safe use, storage and disposal of prescription drugs.

• Through Live to Give, more than 1,400 OU Medicine employee volunteers donated more than 3,500 hours of labor to community causes ranging from Habitat for Humanity to the Regional Food Bank.

• Since opening in September 2015, OU Passport, an official passport application acceptance facility located in Oklahoma Memorial Union, has accepted more than 800 completed passport applications for submission to the U.S. Department of State, Passport Services section for issuance determination. OU Passport serves both the University and greater Oklahoma communities.

Niko the service dog, also known as Professor Paws, works with an assistant professor in the College of Allied Health Occupational Therapy program at OU-Tulsa to expand clinician knowledge and promote community awareness about services dogs.

• C.H.A.M.P. — Children’s Healthy Activity and Meal Planning Camp — is a week-long summer camp hosted by the Department of Nutritional Sciences that teaches fifth-, sixth- and seventh-graders about food safety, kitchen skills and the importance of making healthful choices.


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Senior dental students in the College of Dentistry provided free dental care to 200 children as part of Kids’ Day, an annual event through which the college provides care to children in the community who may not have readily available access to a dental health professional.

• OU-Tulsa physical and occupational therapy students helped the Center for Individuals with Physical Challenges create adaptive Halloween costumes for disabled adults to incorporate into their assistive device.

• More than 100 student groups and campus departments collected and delivered more than 550 gifts and other small comforts to patients at the OU Children’s Hospital to brighten their holiday season.

• OU architecture students, faculty and alumni traveled to Zambia to help Zambian students, teachers, administrators and government officials explore design ideas for elementary and middle schools serving residents of Tree of Life, which rescues children from severe cases of abuse and poverty.

• More than 2,500 OU students danced for 12 hours to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, directly benefiting Oklahoma children with life-threatening illnesses. The 2015 Soonerthon broke all records, raising a total of $561,268.

• Almost 70 members of Brigade, a community service branch of the Black Student Association, rebuilt animal feeders and playgrounds at the Oklahoma City Zoo; tutored students for Love Works and the Community After School Program; served meals at a Norman shelter; and packed presents for the Center for Children and Families.


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• More than 100 College of Dentistry students, faculty and staff donated their time and expertise to treat more than 1,600 underserved patients at the Oklahoma Dental Association Oklahoma’s 2015 Mission of Mercy event.

• OU Outreach’s Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, a university-based human relations and social justice organization, serves as a catalyst for promoting equity and human rights through education, research, advocacy and collaboration.

• A member of the Communication Department faculty conducted HPV vaccine assessments among Choctaw Nation citizens.

• The 2015 OU United Way campaign raised a record $226,402. During the United Way Day of Caring drive, 29 student groups and campus departments collected and delivered clothes, books, toys and canned foods for 21 local community agencies.

• Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing students administer flu shots to community members around the state, including veterans through the VA’s four-week flu clinic.

• For Arbor Day 2015, 150 students, faculty and staff partnered with OU landscaping staff to plant 74 trees in designated campus areas.

• Audiology students from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders traveled to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to provide complimentary hearing health care to 1,042 people that included hearing aids, medication and counseling on hearing protection and loss.

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