by Lisa Riley in News
What is going on in the library? That is the question that many Langston students are asking. Although students are aware that changes and improvements are being made, few know what the end result will actually be.
According to Bettye Black, acting director of libraries, students can expect "more computers, new carpet, and a new attitude.
by Lionel Bibbins in News
Twelve Langston students and three faculty members attended the sixth annual Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE) symposium that took place January 19-20 in Kansas City, Mo.
During the symposium, graduates and undergraduates had the opportunity to present research that they had completed over the previous summer in either a poster or an oral form.
by Dwan Brumfield in News
Jessica Lowe-Betts, a Langston University alumna and the 2004 Miss Langston University, is proving that it is easy to go from one great career opportunity to the next one if you possess initiative and tenacity.
Lowe-Betts, a 2005 graduate who majored in broadcast journalism, was recently offered the position of manager of government affairs and marketing for the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce.
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Opio Toure, a former Oklahoma state representative, lawyer, activist, mentor and Langston University alumnus, succumbed to lung failure on Monday, Feb. 4, 2008.
Toure (who had changed his name from Ezellmo A. Stephens) was born in Muskogee, Okla. on March 31, 1954.
by Leethaniel Brumfield in News
An HIV/AIDS diagnosis is steadily becoming the new "Scarlet Letter" among people of African descent because of the stigma associated with the virus. During National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which was observed on Feb. 7, this problem and others were addressed.
by Leethaniel Brumfield in News
Although the word "mosquito" is Spanish for "little fly," in the case of mosquitoes, "big things do seem to come in small packages." The creatures, which typically are only 0.6 of an inch and have a lifespan that barely stretches 20 days for males and 100 for females, can cause a lot of harm in their short lives.
by Roderick Foster in News
Leethaniel Brumfield, a senior biology major from Oklahoma City, recently won the Colgate-Palmolive Scholarship worth $5,000. Brumfield said he plans to use the scholarship for graduate school.
The Colgate-Palmolive Scholarship, sponsored by the company Colgate-Palmolive, is for college undergraduate students who are members of the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineering (NOBCChE).
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The Melvin B. Tolson Black Heritage Center is currently showing an exhibition on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The exhibition was a gift to the center from the Oklahoma Historical Society and it was organized by the Texas Humanities Resource Center.
by Randi Okray in News
Aleshia Richardson, a freshman math education major from Tulsa, Okla., won the annual Miss Black & Gold Scholarship Pageant hosted by the Beta Kappa chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. The event took place Feb. 5 in the "ice cold" I.W. Young Auditorium.
