Students participate in real life research

The Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics (OSSM) announced today that six rising seniors participated in the school’s 2023 Investigative Research Scholars Program (IRSP) this year. Over the past three weeks, these students worked with research laboratories and companies throughout Oklahoma City to get hands-on experience for their future profession.

The participating students are Lucas Daggs (Yukon), Grace George (Yukon), Alice Hsu (Edmond), Esther Jung (Enid), Nathan Phung (Oklahoma City), and Tajvir Singh (Ard- more).

Participating institutions include the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center (OUHSC) and its College of Pharmacy, and Heritage Trust. Through the program, students researched cardiovascular biology, pharmaceutical services and microbiology and immunology. Additionally, Tajvir Singh is working with Heritage Trust to study Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential effects on the economy.

Finding that elusive female ancestor

Females can often be the brick walls in genealogy research. Name changes from a marriage can present a challenge, plus society laws tend to favor males. The Oklahoma Home and Community Education

Genealogy Group will host Nancy Calhoun as she presents “Runnin’

Nancy Calhoun

Down Grandma: Tips for Researching Females” on July 19th, at 10 a.m. at the Oklahoma County Extension Office, 2500 NE 63rd Street, Oklahoma City.

Ms. Calhoun will present hints and resources that can fill in those blanks on the genealogy charts. Nancy Calhoun has been chasing relatives for over 40 years. While in Teacher Corps and graduate school in Kansas, she enrolled in a semester long genealogy class and has been pursuing family, both her own and others’ since that time. Nancy was the Department Head of Genealogy and Local History at Muskogee Public Library in Muskogee, Oklahoma, for 13 years when she went to work for Oklahoma Historical Society.

Among her memberships are DAR, Oklahoma’s First Families of the Twin Territories, Mayflower Society, Oklahoma Genealogical Society and several county and state genealogical organizations. Her writings have placed in the annual contests held by the International Association of Family History Writers and Editors. The OHCE Genealogy Group meets the third Wednesday of each month and the public is invited. For more information their website is: ohcegenealogy.com or on Facebook: OHCE Genealogy Group.