Dr. Bob Wetteman and Dr. Gerald Horn Featured at Congress in Argentina (August 2005)
Dr. Bob Wetteman and Dr. Gerald Horn will present papers at the 28th Congress of the Argentine Association of Animal Production in October 2005. They have been invited to speak at this Congress and to collaborate with faculty at the Unviersidad Nacional del Sur in Argentina. Presentation of papers at an International Congress frequently results in graduate program applications because of the increased visibility of OSU programs.
Three Students From UPAEP in Puebla, Mexico Participate in an Internship at OSU (June 2005)
Three students from UPAEP in Puebla, Mexico visited OSU to participate in an internship. Shown in the photo above are the three students (Eduardo Ramirez Yaho, Christian Sanchez Camacho and Gustavo Rojas Fabregas) plus Lupita Fabregas of UPAEP. During the first part of their stay, the three young men were at the Wes Watkins Experiment Station in Lane, Oklahoma where they participated in a variety of activities, including extracting lutein from watermelon. In the middle of their program they participated in an "Experience America" program with a group of students from the University of Chapingo. During the final phase of their program they worked with Dr. Clint Krehbiel in the Department of Animal Science. Their program was coordinated by Dr. David Lewis, DASNR's Liason with UPAEP.
Dr. Gerald Horn and Dr. Joe Schatzer Celebrate Birthdays While Teaching in Chihuahua (June 2005)
Dr. Gerald Horn of the Department of Animal Science and Dr. Joe Schatzer of the Department of Agricultural Economics celebrated birthdays in Chihuahua, Mexico this June while teaching graduate courses at the University of Chihuahua. They were surprised by a birthday celebration at the home of Dr. David Ramos, a local veterinarian from Chihuahua. The Ramos family hosted the entire group of OSU faculty on their ranch for a discada. A discada is a traditional Chihuahuan cookout featuring a special cooker fabricated from a disc (the kind used on farms to till the soil). Shown in the photo above are Dr. Horn and Dr. Schatzer celebrating with their birthday cakes. Seated at the right is Dr. David Ramos, who provided music late into the night.
Dr. Shida Henneberry Teaches International Trade Course in Thailand (June 2005)
Dr. Shida Henneberry was invited to teach a course on international trade at Kon Kaen University in Thailand during June 2005. She is shown above with the signage announcing the course, and a group of students from the class are shown in the photo below.
Dr. Bjorn Martin is an invited speaker at the 22nd Congress of the Scandinavian Society for Plant Pathology (June 2005)
Dr. Bjorn Martin is an invited speaker at the 22nd Congress of the Scandinavian Society for Plant Physiology, which will be held in Umea, Sweden in June 2005. Dr. Martin is the author of many internationally recognized journal articles on plant physiology and is intenrnationally recognized for excellence in his field. Oklahoma State University is proud to have faculty members attain the level of international recognition that creates a demand for their professional presentations at international meetings. Congratulations to Dr. Martin!
OSU Study Abroad Fair Set for October 5, 2005 in the Student Union Atrium (May 2005)
The OSU Study Abroad Fair has been set for October 5, 2005. The fair will run from 10 am to 2 pm in the Atrium of the OSU Student Union. At the study abroad fair, students have an opportunity to visit a wide variety of booths set up to provide information on a wide variety of study abroad opportunities. Usually, the students can also meet the faculty member leading the study abroad program. The timing of the study abroad fair in the fall leaves plenty of time for students to discuss their plans with their families, obtain passports and vaccinations, and prepare for their overseas experience. Mark your calendar now to attend this event! For more information contact:
Gerry Auel
060-F Student Union
Study Abroad Coordinator
744-8569
abroad@okstate.edu
Dr. Adnan Badran (OSU Agricultural Education B.Sc. 1959) Selected as New Prime Minister of Jordan (May 2005)
An OSU College of Agriculture alumni has been selected as the new Prime Minister of Jordan. Dr. Adnan Badran is the former Deputy Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (1993-1998), and Assistant Director General for Science, UNESCO,
Dr. Badran obtained his BSc in Agricultural Education from
He serves as the Secretary General and Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He is a member of a number of academic institutions including the
Dr. Badran has earned the Jordanian Al-Nahda and Al-Yarmouk Medals, the Istiklal (
World Econometrics Society Meeting In London (April 2005)
Dr. Wade Brorsen of the Department of Agricultural Economics will attend the 9th World Conference of the Econometric Society in London, England. Dr. Brorsen is an internationally known econometrician in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Brorsen is currently an editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the most pretigious journal in the agricultural economics profession and the official publication of the American Agricultural Economics Association.
Dr. Salim Hiziroglu of OSU's Department of Forestry Invited to Present Papers in Canada, Australia and Thailand (April 2005)
Dr. Salim Hiziroglu will be presenting a paper at the 59th Internationa
l Conference of the Forest Products Society in Quebec City, Canada in June, 2005. He will also be presenting a paper and co-chairing a session in Value-Added Wood Composites at the 22nd 
International Union Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Congress in Brisbane, Australia in August 2005. He will stay several days at Kasetsart University in Bangkok on his way to Australia to attend a meeting with the faculty members of Department of Forest Products. He will also have a meeting with Dr. Sarawut Rimdusit of Department of Chemical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok to discuss research proposal of a master student in wood-based plastic composites.
Konkuk University of Korea Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Oklahoma State University (April 2005)
Konkuk University of Korea sent a delegation
to Oklahoma State University April 26-28, 2005 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding and to discuss student exchange programs. The delegation (shown in the photos above and below) included Dr. Jung 
Rim Haw, the Dean of Public and International Affairs; Mr. Kwangsoo Kim, the Director of the Office of International Affairs and Ms. Yoonmi Noh, Coordinator in the Office of International Affairs. The delegation came to OSU after Dr. Chanjin Chung of the Department of Agricultural Economics visited Konkuk University earlier this year. As a result of these efforts, a student from Konkuk University has already submitted complete application materials to OSU and will arrive on our campus in fall 2005, studying in the Department of Forestry. The symbol of Konkuk University is the bull, shown at left.
OSU's Collaboration With CIMMYT Yields Many International Opportunities for Students (April 2003)
OSU's research programs with international institutions provide opportunities for our students to obtain international experience. In the area of nitrogen use efficiency, Dr. Bill Raun's programs at OSU and CIMMYT have been a vehicle for many OSU students to obtain valuable international experience in their professional area.
Click on this link to visit Dr. Raun's website and learn more about his student's activities.
OSU Faculty Member Who Will Teach in Chihuahua Honored for Natural Resources Research Activities (April 2005)
At the Environmental Science awards banquet at Oklahoma State University on April 21st, Dr. Mike Smolen was awarded the Sterling L. (Bud) Burks Award for Outstanding Faculty Environmental Research. Dr. Smolen was recognized for his outstanding work in watershed assessment, planning, and education. Dr. Smolen is one of 8 DASNR faculty who will be teaching at the University of Chihauhua this summer in a cohort doctoral program in Zootecnia. During an intensive four week program, Dr. Smolen will teach a course which focuses on water related issues in natural resources and agricultural production. The State of Chihuahua faces many water related challenges in its economic development because of the low amount of rainfall received.
Dr. David Lewis is named Coordinator of DASNR Programs with UPAEP in Mexico (April 2005)
Dr. David Lewis of the Department of Forestry has accepted the responsibility of program coordination between the Division of Agriculture at OSU and UPAEP in Puebla, Mexico. UPAEP is a private university with strong ties to OSU and a small but growing Division of Agriculture. Programs that are planned include student practical training programs at OSU, faculty exchange programs, jointly taught courses and other activities that create linkeages between OSU and UPAEP to mutually strengthen the institutions. Dr. David Lewis will visit UPAEP in May 2005 and three students from UPAEP will spend June of 2005 in a practical training program at OSU.
International Students in the Division of Agriculture Face Many Challenges in Learning English (April 2005)
Why English Is Hard To Learn:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, Grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"
The original source of this article is unknown - please let us know if you can identify the author so we may provide appropriate credit to a very witty individual!
Two Seminars On Study Abroad Provided For DASNR Faculty (April 2005)
Dr. Doug Needham, Chairman of the Seminar Program for the Teaching Community Support Network, arranged for two seminars on study abroad topics to be presented in Ag Hall. On March 29th, Drs. Dan and Marcia Tilley led a discussion on "Establishing Study Abroad Mini-Courses" and on April 14th Dr. David Henneberry and Dr. Adele Tongco led a discussion on "Timelines for Study Abroad Course Development". These seminars provided basic information to faculty interested in starting a study abroad program. Anyone interested in obtaining more information on these topics may contact the International Ag Programs Office in 139 Ag Hall.
Dr. Pongsak Angkasith, President of Chiang Mai University; Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs Dusdee Nalampang and Dr. Ruth Sirisunyaluck of the Department of Agricultural Extension visit OSU to start a new doctoral program in Agricultural Education and Extension (April 2005)
Shown in the photo above is Chiang Mai University President Dr. Pongsak Angkasith with OSU President and System CEO Dr. David Schmidly and Interim Dean of Agriculture Dr. Ed MIller. The two Presidents met to discuss the relationship between OSU and Chiang Mai University. President Angkasith
invited President Schmidly to visit Thailand in January 2006. Oklahoma State University has a strong alumni association in Thailand. Four OSU graduates are now University Presidents in Thailand and another is the head of the national railway system. OSU recognizes the success of these alumni and the potential to create long-lasting and meaningful realtionships with several institutions there. During his visit, Dr. Angkasith was honored as the College of Agriculture Distinguished alumni and the Department of Agricultural Education Distinguished Alumni. He is at OSU discussing a nwe and innovative doctoral program in agricultural extension.
Professor Charaspim Boonyanant of Maejo University in Thailand is a Visiting Scholar at OSU (April 2005)
Professor Charaspim is the director of the Landscape Architecture Program at the Department of Landscape and Environmental Conservation, Maejo University, Chiangmai, Thailand -- the university where Prof. Paul Hsu spent three months for his Rotary International Teacher’s Grant. The Rotary Grant had made a positive influence on both Maejo University and Oklahoma State University. Prof. Charaspim was invited by Oklahoma State University for a one-month teaching exchange.
She received B. Architecture from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and later received her Master of Landscape Architecture from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Besides administrative duties, she teaches landscape architecture design studios, conducts research, and performs professional practice in her field. She is specialized in housing design and construction, hotel and resort development design, and environmental improvement studies.
She will be with us from March 27 to April 29 for a month. During this time, she will interact mostly with landscape architecture and contracting students and departmental faculty. If you meet her in the hall way, please greet her as Professor Charaspim or Ajarn Charaspim (means teacher Charaspim, as Thailand is first name based, her name pronounced as Cha-ra-pim where s does not pronounce). Her activities at OSU will be:
1. LA 3324 Landscape Architecture Design Studio II, MWF 1:30-4:20
2. Presentation to LA 3324, LA 4424, LA 4524 Design II, IV, VI
3. HORT Seminar to all faculty and graduate students.
4. Participate in Design Charette with all LA students and LA professional advisory council, one day, April 3.
5. Participate in Rotary International District Conference in OKC, one day, April 22, Presentation, professor Hsu and Ajarn Charaspim.
6. Meet with College Dean and Department Head.
7. Other activities in the Department
Please welcome her on campus!
Dr. Pongsak Angkasith, President of Chiang Mai University of Thailand, will visit Oklahoma State University and receive distinguished alumni award from the College of Agriculture and Department of Agricultural Education (April 2005)
Dr. Pongsak Angkasith, President of Chiang Mai University in Thailand, will visit Oklahoma State University April 4-10, 2005. President Angkasith received his Bachelors's Degree in Agriculture from Chiang Mai University in 1975, his Master of Science Degree in Agricultural Education from OSU in 1974 and his Ed.D. in Agricultural Education from OSU in 1976. Dr. Angkasith has been a strong supporter of Oklahoma State University in Thailand and would like to initiate efforts to strengthen both Universities through joint graduate degree programs in selected areas.
Chiang Mai University has
17 Faculties with 107 Departments, 3 Research Institutes, 1 Graduate School, 18 Academic Support Centres and Community Service Centres. The
Programs offered include
- 3 Certificate Programs
- 84 Undergraduate Degree Programs
- 26 Graduate Diploma Programs
- 100 Masters Degree Programs
- 23 Doctoral Degree Programs
Student enrollment at Chiang Mai is
23,799 with 17,944 undergraduates and 5,805 graduate students.
Some awards received by Dr. Angkasith are listed below:
- “Student of the Year” Presented by International Student Association of Oklahoma State University, USA 1975
- “Outstanding Agricultural Alumnus” Presented by Faculty of Agricultural Alumni Association, Chiang Mai University 1991.
- “Outstanding University Alumnus” Presented by Chiang Mai University Alumni Association Chiang Mai, Thailand 1993.
- “Outstanding School Alumnus” Presented by Jakkam Kanathon School, Lampoon, Thailand 1995.
- OSU Distinguished Alumni, 2004
- OSU College of Agriculture Distinguished Alumni, 2005
- OSU Department of Agricultural Education Distinguished Alumni, 2001