OPPORTUNITIES

Check out these great job prospects!

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Meet our academic all-star!

CAS COURSES

Take a look at a few courses offered in the fall.

WELCOME

Hello, Students!

It's already July! I hope you all are enjoying the break and your summer endeavors. This issue of the newsletter has some great job opportunities, so stay tuned for those.

- Lilly Amechi, SSC Student Intern

Student Spotlight: Chloe Ngo

Q: What is your favorite CAS course?

My favorite course has been BIOL 1114, Introduction to Zoology with Dr. James Thompson. It was at 9 a.m. on Monday, so it was the first class I ever attended at OU. Understandably, I was very nervous. However, on my walk to class, I saw my professor’s name on the Scholars Walk in the South Oval. My initial worry was overshadowed by awe that I was going to be taught by someone with such an accomplishment. With Dr. Thompson, we covered all the traditional topics but through a different lens that brought biology to life for me, funnily enough! Just like in books and films, there were unifying themes in biology that we could apply to anything we learned in class each day.

Q: What you love about CAS?

There are so many courses and majors to choose from! I came into college undecided, and the College of Arts and Sciences offers so many possibilities for how you want to spend your time at OU. There are so many routes that students can choose to go down. I love getting to hear about what my peers are studying and feel like I’m always learning about a new major I’ve never heard of!

Q: What are your summer plans?

I just finished being an intern for a month at the Rowe Lab. My plans for the rest of the summer are to work at my summer job and also take some online classes. I’m also planning on doing some traveling, visiting some college friends and just relaxing after an exciting freshman year.

Q: What did you learn last school year that you will implement this fall?

The biggest takeaway I had from last school year was to keep an open mind towards all of my classes. Even though it’s tempting to just want to get gen-ed courses out of the way, these were experiences that made me step out of my comfort zone and were super interesting and impactful. I will definitely apply this mindset in the fall!

Students, meet Chloe Ngo! She is a rising junior from Tulsa, studying community health with a medical humanities minor on the pre-medicine track. In addition to her academic endeavors, Chloe is CAC Speakers Bureau's vice chair of allocations, a member of the Big Event's operation staff, and a research assistant with the biology department's Rowe Lab.

Opportunities

For more internship listings, career development, and undergraduate research opportunities, follow the Student Success Center on Twitter.

Oklahoma City Thunder Fellows program. Interns will help 8th-12th grade students develop skills in data, analytics, coding and app development as well as help students find internships and job placements. This internship is paid and located in Tulsa. For more information and the application, click here.

The Center for Science and the Public Interest seeks paid science education program interns for the fall. Preferred majors include any science, information services and database administration or nonprofit management. Details on Handshake.

The Missouri Historical Society of St. Louis seeks a paid Native American history education intern for the fall. Details on Handshake.

The Women's Congressional Policy Institute seeks several paid interns for the fall. Located in Washington, D.C., but may be remote. Details on Handshake.

Anheuser-Busch seeks a people intern to aid with recruiting, hiring and on-boarding process of new employees. This internship is paid and located in OKC. Learn more about this internship opportunity and apply here.

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education is seeking biomedical research interns for placement at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. Open to any STEM major. Details on Handshake.

Do you love logistics? UPS in Oklahoma City is seeking a daytime intern with great research, planning and technology skills. Click here for information and the application.

Rogers-O'Brien Construction of Dallas seeks a paid human relations intern or part-time entry-level human relations assistant. Details on Hand sha ke.

SSM Health of Oklahoma City seeks a fall intern interested in understanding the complexities of healthcare operations, management and facilities. There is a fifteen hour per week minimum. You can find the application here.

Partner workshops and job postings distributed by the Student Success Center do not imply the college’s endorsement of the mission of any individual organization external to the university. Students are encouraged to learn for themselves about individual opportunities and organizations and to contact ssc@ou.edu with questions.

Faculty Spotlight

Joanna Hearne comes to the University of Oklahoma after 17 years at the University of Missouri, where she was associate professor of film studies in the English Department and served as founding director of the Digital Storytelling Program. She has published articles in journals such as Screen and the Studies in American Indian Literatures, as well as various collections, and is the author of two monographs: Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western and Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising. She held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2017-18, and was a Fulbright Research Chair at the University of Alberta (Canada) in 2019.

How did you become interested in Native American Visual Studies? What is unique about this field?

I was teaching a writing class for Tohono O'odham Nation students when the film Smoke Signals came out and I saw how much it meant to those teenagers to see Indigenous storytelling on screen. Indigenous media can carry Indigenous perspectives – culture, sovereignty, stories--forward into the future, across generations and outward to mass audiences.

What courses are you hoping to teach here at OU?

In the coming year, I am teaching Media Theory and an elective course on the History and Theory of Animation. In the future, I'll also be teaching courses on Global Indigenous Media, History of Documentary, History of the Western, and of course, core courses in Film and Media Studies. I'm interested in developing new courses, such as a course on the short film. Indigenous film and media are part of all my courses.

What has been your most rewarding academic experience?

There are so many rewarding moments, it's hard to choose just one! But I think founding the Digital Storytelling Program is definitely a high point. I worked with an interdisciplinary team of faculty to start a new B.A. Degree program in Digital Storytelling, focusing on short-form media production (including animation), writing for digital media and critical media studies; students really loved the program and by the end of that first year we had 76 declared Digital Storytelling majors!

Read Before Swimming

Each summer, Oklahomans visit lakes to swim, fish, boat and enjoy nature with friends and family. Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network, a global consortium of nearly 900 researchers from 62 countries, in which Dr. David Hambright of the OU College of Arts and Sciences collaborates, demonstrates through recent articles that lakes around the world are getting warmer and losing oxygen at alarming rates. Learn more here.