Oklahoma State University Phi Alpha Theta

Today, OSU Nu Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta undergraduate and graduate students traveled to Weatherford, Oklahoma for the annual Phi Alpha Theta conference. OSU Nu Chapter graduate students swept the Graduate American category and took first place in Graduate Non-American. Congratulations to all that attended, presented, and placed.

Emma Fritz- 3rd in Graduate American
"Memory and Adaption: The Cherokee Use of Recollection in the Post-Civil War Era"

David Justice- 2nd in Graduate American
"'Generalissimo Francisco Franco is Still Dead': The Transition of U.S.- Spain Relations in the mid-1970s"

Sarah Barton- 1st in Graduate American
"The Cost of Doing Business: The Clinton Administration and Discrepancies in Federal Co***ne Sentencing"

Cara Menasco- 1st in Graduate Non-American
"Religious Women? Old Babylonian Cloisters and Naditus"

Our one and only formal meeting of the semester is today at 2:30pm, in MUR 148. Bring your ideas for socials and colloquia. See you there!

Don't forget about our first monthly Social today at 11:30 in the Murray Parlor!!! We have subs for days!!

If anyone's interested, the Graduate and Professional Student Government Association will be having a welcome reception next week. RSVP to the GPSGA email in the notice if you plan to go.

PAT members have a busy day tomorrow! Foner E-book training is at 11am in MUR 148 (Free lunch!). The mandatory History Department Meeting is at 3:30pm in MUR 035, and immediately following at 5pm in the Parlor is our annual welcome-back pizza party. See you there!

The TA Welcome Lunch is TODAY! Welcome the new TAs and reconnect with old friends. Lunch provided at noon Aug 10, MUR 148.

We have one set of PAT honor cords for anyone who is graduating this semester and is a member.

Stop by Jared's office to claim, preference will be given to active members.

This afternoon Phi Alpha Theta will be re-enacting true Jacksonian electoral politics in the seminar room. We're currently seeking someone to play the person being dragged up to the ballot box after indulging in the complimentary cider.*

Not really, but we will be electing new officers, join us!

*There's no alcohol this afternoon, the university frowns on that kind of thing.

Reminder, we have a guest speaker this Thursday, hope to see everyone there.

PSA: The letter with new members will be mailed to the national office in the next few days. If you still want to join and be inducted at the banquet on April 22nd send an email to [email protected] ASAP.

Dr. Kinder presenting "Healing the Nation's Wounds: The Great War, Medicine and America's Disabled Veterans" as part of the Library's commemoration of the centennial of World War I.

Don't forget this afternoon is our colloquium on archival research. Speakers will be Drs. Rohrs and Schauer along with David Peters, head of Special Collections at the library, and David Oberhelman, our resource librarian.

3:30 in the Seminar Room

There will also be cookies and coffee.