OPPORTUNITIES

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Meet our academic all-star!

CAS COURSES

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

WELCOME

Hello, Students!

The fall semester has officially begun! I hope you all are settling in well and getting into the school routine. Make sure to continue checking in with the Student Success Center for internships, campus resources and events.

- Lilly Amechi, SSC Student Intern

Apply to Mock Trial!

The OU Mock Trial Team is recruiting new members! This is a great organization for pre-law students and those interested in moot court. Applications close on Sept. 1.

Withrow Leadership Scholars Application

The College of Arts and Sciences has its own ambassadorship program where students can connect with students from other majors and study abroad in France!

Applications close Saturday, Sept. 11 at 11:50 pm. They can be found on Engage.

More information about the program can be found here.

For any questions, please email Devin Brown, this year’s Chair, at brown.devin@ou.edu.

Student Spotlight: Devin Brown

Q: What is your favorite course you have taken with the College of Arts and Sciences?

My favorite CAS course has been Determinants of Health (PHCH-3613) with Professor Mary Gowin! This class helped me explore my passion and interest in health disparities and health inequities through the lens of the social, economic and historical factors that can affect the health of a community. To me, this is such an important perspective to have when considering health, and I’m glad that I could spend a semester diving into it with this course. Not only is Professor Gowin an amazing teacher, but she also cares so much about the individual success of her students and it shines through her work!

Q: What do you love about the College of Arts and Sciences?

CAS has given me the support and flexibility to discover what it is that I’m interested in. By giving me guidance through my major changes (including making my own through Planned Programs), I have been able to make important pivots in my academic journey, refining my interests and long-term goals along the way. Exposure and experience are the best teachers and CAS has helped me find both of those on and off campus. Also, the people here are unparalleled, ranging from my peers in Withrow Leadership Scholars to the amazing advisors, staff and faculty that have supported me along every step of this journey. I wouldn’t be who I am today without the people of CAS!

Q: What are you most excited for this school year?

As a senior, I am most excited to get to invest in the incoming freshman class and other young students on campus. I have received so much love, support and guidance throughout my college career at OU, and now I know it is time to turn around and pour it all into the freshmen, sophomores and juniors. If I can empower the students coming behind me to not only lead these missions and fill these spaces much better than I ever could, but to create a version of themselves of which they can be proud, then my last year will be the best one yet.

Q: What advice has helped you succeed throughout your time at OU?

All of this is a gift, so treat it that way. It is unlikely that any of us have been forced to come to college, so I see every aspect of the college journey as something I have volunteered for. We have the agency to choose our degree path (including the classes that come with it), how we choose to spend our time outside of the classroom and the people with which we spend that time. The quicker I learned to treat everything on campus as an opportunity instead of an obligation (including homework), the easier it was for me to really enjoy this journey.

Students, meet Devin Brown! He is a senior from San Antonio, Texas, majoring in the foundational sciences of life in the universe with minors in public health and Spanish on the pre-med track. In addition to his academic endeavors, Brown serves as the Withrow Leadership Scholar chair, the Miracle Mindset chair, a Diversity and Enrichment Programs intern, a vice chair for the High School Leadership Conference and as a Gender and Equality Center peer educator.

Opportunities

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

Earn Credit For Your Internship

For information about how to receive academic credit for your internship, please see your advisor or email us at ssc@ou.edu

Robin Healthcare seeks pre-med students or recent graduates for paid, work-from-home medical scribe positions. For more information and the application, click here.

Paycom of OKC is seeking a graphic design intern with ability to use Adobe Creative Cloud. Details on Handshake.

FC Dallas seeks fall interns for a variety of roles related to marketing and social media. Unpaid. Details on Handshake.

The United States District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma in Tulsa seeks a probation office student intern for fall. Paid. Details on Handshake.

American Fidelity seeks a technical intern with strong math and analytical skills as well as intermediate to advanced Excel skills. More information can be found here.

Gallagher, one of the world's largest insurance brokerage, risk management and human capital consulting firms, seeks paid summer sales interns for 2022. Candidates are eligible from any major. De tails on Handshake.

Nextep, a firm that provides HR services to small and mid-sized companies, seeks paid spring human relations interns. Headquartered in beautiful Norman, Oklahoma. Details on Handshake.

The Oklahoma City Thunder seeks two community relations interns for the spring. This internship comes with home game tickets during the season. For more information and the application, click here.

Ascension, one of the leading nonprofit and Catholic health care systems in the United States, seeks a lab tech intern for its Molecular Diagnostics Department located in Tulsa. 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.

Get to know the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

David Wrobel is the dean of the College of Arts Sciences; he is also a history professor, tennis player, a husband and a father. Follow along to get to know him and what he does.

How did your passions lead you to the University of Oklahoma?

I am a historian of the American West and American thought and culture, including the study of regionalism (attachment to place). Back in 2010, I was invited to apply for the Merrick Chair in Western American History and Culture (this is the oldest endowed chair at OU). I already knew about OU’s excellent graduate program in Western/Native American/Environmental

/Latin American History, and about the remarkable archival and museum and university press resources here and decided to apply. When I visited campus in early spring 2011 to interview for the position, I was immediately drawn to the place—the welcoming faculty, staff and students, the beauty of the campus, the wonderfully detailed historical markers outside buildings across the campus that chronicle the university’s rich and often complicated past, reinforcing the reality that it is only by knowing and owning our past that we can learn from it and become better. I found my attachment to the place right away and have only grown more attached over the past decade.

What is your most rewarding experience being dean of the College of Arts and Sciences?

Every day in the Dean’s Office brings rewards and challenges. I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to help students and faculty and staff succeed. Those efforts often include time with friends of the college who provide support for undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships and faculty research initiatives. I thoroughly enjoy having the opportunity to advocate for those needs and the needs of our departments, programs, centers and institutes. I am also enormously proud and grateful to get to participate in major public events that welcome our students and celebrate their accomplishments, e.g., commencement, convocation, awards ceremonies. I also find it enormously rewarding to continue my work as a teacher and mentor and as a scholar while working as dean—I like the phrase Teacher/Scholar/Administrator as a reminder of my strong sense of connection to the core constituencies, students, faculty and staff, who I have the great good fortune to work for.

When you are not fulfilling you role as dean, what do you spend your time doing?

To be honest, it can sometimes be hard for me to switch off, but when I’m working with students I’m a teacher and mentor, when I’m working on an essay, article or book, I am a researcher and a scholar. When I’m not doing any of these academic things I enjoy time with my family—my wife, Janet, and three kids in high school, Davey, Ethan and Miranda. I also have a passion for tennis and play quite a lot. And, I am a collector of music, mostly rock and alternative, from the 1970s through to the present. I have a very large collection and often listen to music in the background as a way to wind down while I’m working in the late afternoons.