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One University Store attracts large crowd One University Store has successful opening MAX JANERKA
Campus Reporter
A line of students reached down the hall, around the corner and up a flight of stairs waiting for the grand opening of the One University Store at 10 a.m. on Monday. Payton Kaleiwahea, a computer science sophomore, and Michael McDonald, a computer science senior, were among those
students who had been waiting since the previous evening outside the new technology store located on the first floor of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Although the two had shown up at around 9 p.m. on Sunday, they were not the first in line, Kaleiwahea said. There were around seven students who stayed overnight, and most of them slept near the front of the store, McDonald said. The One University Store, with its mission to inspire students and increase involvement, is supposed
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to reach students all across campus, McDonald said. There is a similar program, Software Studio, already in place in the School of Computer Science, he said. Despite One University’s grand mission, it is likely that many of the students in line shared a goal with Kaleiwahea, who was there to buy a new laptop. At the grand opening, Apple computers were up to $350 off the original price, and the first 200 people in the store would receive SEE IT STORE PAGE 2
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OU sociology junior Tommy Snider helps Student Program Specialist Nicole Kendrick Monday at the newly opened One Store.
We’re increasingly seeing libraries as [a] multi-modal space, meaning the mode isn’t just study, it is a mix of things.” RICK LUCE, DEAN OF LIBRARIES AND ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH FOR THE NORMAN CAMPUS BLAYKLEE BUCHANAN • MANAGING EDITOR
Library renovations won’t stop with Lower Level One
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enovations to Bizzell Memorial Library’s Lower Level One are just the beginning of many updates to revamp library space and advance technology, changing the way students use the library. One of the main uses for Lower Level One is to bring students together to promote collaborative learning, said Rick Luce, dean of libraries and associate vice president for research for the Norman campus. Luce said he aims to engage campus in a dialogue about how libraries are changing and how that affects OU. He has held around 15 meetings with faculty and students, including representatives from Student Government Association, called town halls, he said. One thing Luce realized was Bizzell is set up for another generation, one that was used to sitting down and studying at a desk. While it was made for that kind of study setting, Bizzell didn’t have a space for groups of students to work together — something students are doing much more often now. The last renovation Bizzell underwent was when the Doris W. Neustadt Wing was added in 1983, Luce said. “A lot has changed in 30 years,” he said.
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Health Sciences Center receives federal grant
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The vision to create an essential space for students and faculty is where libraries are headed, said Karen Antell, head of references and outreach services at Bizzell, in an email. “The future of libraries is devoting more space to people, not materials,” she said. One of those spaces, known as the collaboratorium in Lower Level One, will be technology-enabled and will fuse library and classroom materials together, Luce said. Lower Level One will contain two small studios — one for students and one for faculty. The studio will be equipped with technology for recording audio for projects, Luce said. But Lower Level One is not the end of renovations for Bizzell. It’s just phase one of updating the library because a collaboratorium is not the only type of space needed, Luce said. “It’s one end of the curve. It’s all about collaboration and spaces to work together — to study together in a group,” he said. “The other end of the spectrum is to think about places like the Great Reading Room ... But then there will be a lot of places in between.” The beginning stages for renovating the main floor of Bizzell are
A $20.3 million federal grant to advance medical research has been awarded to OU’s Health Sciences Center, in collaboration with other Oklahoma health institutions . The grant came from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, said Greg Elwell, public affairs specialist for t h e O k l a h o ma Me d i ca l Research Foundation, which is collaborating with OU to use the grant to advance research. This grant will help researchers from OU and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation work with doctors and clinics across the state and in rural areas, Elwell said. This collaboration between researchers and medical doctors is called the Oklahoma Shared Clinical
and Translational Resources nations – as well as with inprogram, Elwell said. stitutions in Arkansas and “We want to find ways to South Carolina, according to take the research, make it a press release. better and work with people The grant will also help who don’t always have ac- educate medical researchcess to that kind of research,” ers and doctors to write their Elwell said. own grants to receive fundThis collaboing for projects ration between they’re working “We want medical reon, Elwell said. searchers and The grant prodiscoveries practicing medvides $4.3 milto become ical doctors will lion in its first therapies…” year and anothhelp take discoveries from labs er $4 million per GREG ELWELL, into medical year for four subPUBLIC AFFAIRS clinics. sequent years, SPECIALIST FOR THE “We want dis- OKLAHOMA MEDICAL according to a coveries to be- RESEARCH FOUNDATION press release. come therapies… Oklahoma from the bench to the bed- Gov. Mary Fallin announced side,” Elwell said. the new grant at the Health The partnership includes Sciences Center in Oklahoma 10 Oklahoma institutions, City Monday morning. physicians across the state, “I think [Fallin] is very American Indian tribes – excited to see this federal throughout Oklahoma and money come in to help adKansas, the Chickasaw, vance this research,” Elwell Cherokee and Choctaw said.
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