December 2005 Table of Contents   OSU Pride Works Founders Hall-iday ACOFP Blood Drive Colby Cassani Foundation Endowed Lectureship Benefactors Honored Round of Applause New Employees   Things you may not know about OSU graphic artist Ellen Stockton: She loves Mustangs (the auto, not the pony). She once took three hours to cut her little brother’s hair. She has always wanted a western-style fringed jacket. As a kid, she liked anything creative and won art awards in school, but was terrified to walk across the stage in third grade to accept her first one. She set her sites on being either a hair stylist or a graphic artist, and her family helped her try her wings. “They must have really loved me, they were so patient.” No one was safe. Stockton backcombed her grandma’s hair into a bouffant and slathered makeup on her. “She was just a good old country gal who canned and quilted,” Stockton says, smiling at the memory. Stockton’s little brother survived that marathon haircut, tolerating a snip here and a slice there until she got it just so. Her drive for excellence hallmarks her creations for OSU. She joined the Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in 1980 after a 10-year stint at a public relations firm. Now director of graphic arts and photography for the OSU Center for Health Sciences, she had to get over being shy about accepting awards. At last count, 29 framed honors line the walls in the graphics office. Her work touches all areas of the Center, from the president’s office to a clinic exam room. She says graphic needs have changed over the years and now include marketing and public awareness as well as instructional support. “We do things for almost every department and we stay busy all the time,” Stockton says. Working with her to turn out award winning products are graphic designer Mary Jane Nichols and photographer Terry Drenner. “Branding is really important,” Stockton says. “You do a disservice to the University if you don’t stay within the graphics guidelines. The things we produce are the ’face’ of the school.” Over the years, she’s developed an eye for all things orange. She created this year’s holiday card artwork by painstakingly removing orange bulbs from a string of Halloween lights to replace multicolored lights on a pre-lighted white tree. She then fashioned orange ribbon into bows for the OSU ornaments that dot the branches. The tree sits in the graphics office and visitors love it. “It’s so neat how much people enjoy it. I have gotten a big kick out of that. I have them turn out the lights and see the orange glow.” I’m always looking for things to wear for OSU Pride Fridays,” she says. It’s why that fringed jacket she always wanted and finally purchased is orange. “I don’t care how it looks on me,” she says. “I justified it because it is orange.” Do you, or someone you know, show OSU pride at work? Do you have an OSU Pride Works story to share? Contact Marla Schaefer, Rounds editor.

 

 

Need a little push to get into a holiday mood?

Come to Founders Hall, the campus “living room”, from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15, for a package of holiday fun. Among planned activities are:

		A fondue corner with peppermint sticks for dipping (no double dips)
		Gingerbread house (build your own, if you don’t eat it first)
		Five-minute chair massages (yeeess!)
		Jeopardy and other games (Alex: “This famous character is based on a real-life early day Oklahoma cowboy.” You: “Who is Pistol Pete?” And the audience goes wild)
		Songs from Eugene Field students (boy, can they sing!)
		Numerous drawings for prizes
		Great food and holiday movies

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Marty Coleman, internet services manager, had two photographs exhibited in November show 'Gross Anatomy' at the Apertures Gallery in Tulsa. Coleman recently resumed exhibiting his artwork after an absence of almost 11 years.

OSU rural health department’s Jan Barber and her husband won first place and a check for $250 in the “rib” category at a Non-Traditional Student Organization - OSU-Stillwater barbeque competition. Barber said there were 15 entries and next year there are plans to expand the event to 40.

Congratulations to Renee Motte, Jeff Mitchell, Lee Stidham and Shelly Handelman, who held the winning tickets in a drawing for hams and turkeys at Staff Advisory Council’s fall fundraiser.

Paper published: “Increased Extracellular Glutamate Evoked by 1-Methyl-4-Phenylpyridinium (MPP +) in the Rat Striatum is not Essential for Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity and is not Derived from Released Glutathione,” Neurotoxicity Res. 7:251-263, 2005. Dr. Ken Miller.

“Interactions of alcohol and nitric-oxide synthase in the brain,” Brain Research Reviews 49:494-504, 2005. Dr. Randall Davis.

Presentation: “Dentistry’s Role in Mass Disasters,” presented at the American Dental Association Annual Meeting, October 6, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Tom Glass.

Presentation: Mammals of the Monarch Mill Formation at Eastgate, Churchill County, Nevada, presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 65th Annual Meeting, October 19-22, Mesa, AZ. Dr. Kent Smith.

Presentations at the 35th Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Nov. 11-16, Washington, DC:

“Expression of c-fos in upper cervical and thoracic spinal cord in response to intrapericardial chemicals in rats”. Dr. Ken Miller.

“Insulin deficiency induces neuron cell death in insulin knockout mice by hyperphosphorylation of JNK”. Drs. Ruben Schechter and Ken Miller

“Localization of glutamine SNAT1 and neutral amino acid transporters (ASCT1, ASCT2) in Rat DRG and Spinal Dorsal Horn”. Dr. Ken Miller.

“Analgesic potency of the mu opioid agonist remifentanil, in a nonmammalian model”. Shekher Mohan and Dr. Craig Stevens.

“Sequencing and characterization of an opioid family receptor from an early vertegrate, the sea lamprey”. Chris Brasel and Dr. Craig Stevens.

Presented to IRB Sanofi Fluzone for 2 months of age vaccine study (approved), study initiated October 6. Stanley E. Grogg, D.O.

COMVEX-USA test review for NBOME, Chicago, IL. Larry Cherry, D.O. and Thomas Pickard, D.O.

IRB approval to conduct a research survey entitled “Vacation Preferences.” Received approval for Pet Therapy and Pet Education projects from the IACUC. Sherril M. Stone, Ph.D.

Review Article Published: Chapter 11, “Opportunistic amoebae. In: Topley & Wilson’s Microbiology and Microbial Infections. 10 th edition. Parasitology, F.E.G. Cox, D.D. Wakelin, S.H. Gillespie and D. Despommier (eds.). Hodder Arnold, London, pp. 226-240, 2005. Dr. David John.

Grant reviewed, NIH Study Section: Infectious Diseases and Microbiology IRG, November 6-7, Washington, DC. Dr. Earl Blewett.

Reviewed a manuscript for the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Al Rouch.

Reviewed papers for Journal of Neuroscience and European Journal of Pharmacology. Dr. Craig Stevens.