Town & Gown Theatre’s Troupe d’ Jour presents the 11th Annual Stillwater Short Play Festival

Town & Gown’s Stillwater Short Play Festival is celebrating its 11th year of exciting productions and yet another opportunity to give back to the Stillwater community. The festival consists of eight short plays of approximately 10-15 minutes in length and runs for one weekend of two performances – Saturday, Aug.12 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 13 at 2:30 p.m. This year’s lineup includes the following plays:

The Yanks are Coming, written by Hank Kimmel of Atlanta, Georgia Choices, written by James McLindon of Northampton, Massachusetts Moon Rabbit, written by Mark A. Fisher of Tehachapi, California

The Naughty List, written by Robert J. LeBlanc of Newburyport, Massachusetts

Bad Idea, written by Brian Cox of Detroit, Michigan

L’art est Pour Tout le Monde, written by Matthew Hanf of Elk Grove, California

Family by Numbers, written by Arianna Rose of Delray Beach, Florida

The New Me, written by Richard Pauli of Annapolis, Maryland

Tickets are $10 each and will be available at the door for each performance. As an extra bit of fun, the festival’s “Stuff the Shorts” campaign will give audience members the oppor- tunity to “vote” for their favorite play(s) by dropping cash or checks into a pair of boxer shorts designated for each play. This will determine the People’s Choice

Award, which will be announced at the close of the Sunday performance.

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Students at Oklahoma State University have spent countless hours in labs conducting research projects this summer. Numerous projects showcased knowledge and findings within student research at the annual Undergraduate Summer Research Expo, held in the Nancy Randolph Davis building on Aug. 2. A majority of research is done during graduate school, but undergraduate students at OSU are offered the ability to spend hours working in labs on campus during the summer with this program. Students play a major role in research across universities.

Dr. Christine Johnson, OSU associate vice president for research expressed how the work students put in this summer is displayed for recognition at the expo.

“We are so pleased that we have had some undergraduate students who have been on campus for many weeks this summer in the labs. You’ve been in the lab and you’ve been working away and today is the culmination to share and disseminate some of your discoveries,” Johnson said.

The summer research program helps prepare undergraduates with connections and skills to pursue graduate school as they continue researching.

Brittanie Cannon, a McNair Scholar studying psychology, was hesitant to join the program.

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