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For the eighth time in the last nine years, the University of Oklahoma has been awarded the Davis Cup in recognition of its record-setting enrollment of Davis United World College international freshmen. The Class of 2025 includes 85 Davis UWC Scholars, an alltime high for the university.
Read moreOklahoma State Auditor & Inspector Cindy Byrd today released the Investigative Audit of the former Justice Alma Wilson Seeworth Academy in Oklahoma City.
Read moreOver 60 million Americans live and work in seemingly idyllic, rural communities. But life gets challenging when illness or pregnancy forces you to travel greater distances to see a doctor, or get to a hospital if the local one closed due to lack of funding. National Rural Health Day on November 18, an annual event on the third Thursday each November, helps us focus on the state of rural healthcare. We celebrate the providers, healthcare professionals, and community leaders who keep the spirit of small-town America alive in the best way possible.
Read moreSeveral members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and state Senate sent a letter to state Superintendent Joy Hofmeister on Tuesday asking her to begin the process of promulgating permanent rules to implement House Bill 1775, which prevents schools from teaching certain theories, such as one race or sex is superior to another.
Read moreThe FBI is aware of a software misconfiguration that temporarily allowed an actor to leverage the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP) to send fake emails. LEEP is FBI IT infrastructure used to communicate with our state and local law enforcement partners. While the illegitimate email originated from an FBI operated server, that server was dedicated to pushing notifications for LEEP and was not part of the FBI’s corporate email service. No actor was able to access or compromise any data or PII on the FBI’s network. Once we learned of the incident, we quickly remediated the software vulnerability, warned partners to disregard the fake emails, and confirmed the integrity of our networks.
Read moreThe Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden will implement its winter hours schedule from Tuesday, December 7, through Wednesday, February 9, 2022, and the Zoo will be closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the day with no public access to the park. The Zoo will continue to be open to the public Thursdays through Mondays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with the last entry no later than 4 p.m. OKC ZOO SAFARI LIGHTS will remain open every night from 5:30 to 11 p.m. through Sunday, January 9, 2022.
Read moreThe State of Oklahoma was awarded $36,353,000 in federal disaster recovery funds to address longterm recovery needs, particularly for housing with a focus on low-to-moderate income households, related to the May-June 2019 disasters in Alfalfa, Canadian, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garfield, Kay, Kingfisher, Le Flore, Logan, Mayes, Muskogee, Noble, Nowata, Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Payne, Pottawatomie, Rogers, Sequoyah, Tulsa, Wagoner, Washington, and Woods counties per FEMA DR-4438.
Read moreBelieving media literacy impacts Oklahomans in all areas of life, Price Lang Public Relations has established the Price Lang Media Literacy Fellowship, a graduate level program at the University of Central Oklahoma. The endowed fellowship will fund an annual research project at UCO, and the research will be used to develop media literacy pro gramming and curriculum for students of all ages.
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