RSU Radio on Tuesday won two top awards in Urban Tulsa Weekly’s annual Absolute Best of Tulsa contest, including Best Station for Music and Favorite Radio Personality. RSU Radio was heralded as the reader’s choice for Best Radio Station for Music, beating out two big-name commercial competitors in 104.5 The Edge and 97.5 KMOD. The underdog win… Read more »
RSU Grad Squeezes Ambulance Through Window, Provides EMS Department with New Tool
As Rogers State University student Kenneth Brull watched half of an ambulance dangle from the shovel of a backhoe in June, he couldn’t help but feel a little nervous. After all, squeezing the 3,000-pound ambulance through a window in the Health Sciences building was his idea. For years, completing vital in-ambulance training had been an… Read more »
RSU Dean Offers One of Oklahoma’s First Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
A Rogers State University dean has developed a sociology course that will be offered as one of the state’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which allows large numbers of people to participate in a non-credit class. Dr. Frank Elwell, dean of RSU’s School of Liberal Arts and professor of sociology, has spent the past… Read more »
Students Dedicate Memorial for Fallen RSU Graduate
Classmates of Rogers State University graduate Juan Legarreta dedicated a memorial bench and plaque in his honor on June 27, a year after he died of a sudden illness. Members of the RSU Criminal Justice Society raised money for the cast-iron memorial plaque, which is affixed to a bench donated by the university. The bench… Read more »
Student Finds New Start with Educational Opportunity Center
Some people decide they want to go to college while they are in high school, some after they join the workforce. Vanessa Butler decided she wanted to go to college while she was in prison. Butler, 25, said that she’d thought about college as a child, but the dream slipped away after her father died… Read more »