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Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) has announced the winners of the 2024 Brandy Awards, which recognize outstanding staff, administrators, and faculty as well as the winner of the Diversity & Inclusion: Dougherty Award. The award recipients were chosen through online voting by SWOSU students.

The Department of Music at Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) invites middle- and high-school musicians to register for the 69th summer of SWOSU Music Camps hosted in Weatherford. The 2024 Music Camp offerings include the following:

South Western Oklahoma Development Authority will join communities across the country in celebrating the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Prevention Week 2024 to increase public awareness of, and action around, mental and substance misuse disorders.

Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) and its longtime philanthropic support organization, the SWOSU Foundation, Inc., have announced the promotion of key personnel in the SWOSU Office of Institutional Advancement (OIA). Based on SWOSU’s main campus at Weatherford in the historic Burton House, the OIA serves as the departmental home of the staff and operations of the SWOSU Foundation, Inc. and its partner organizations, the SWOSU Alumni Association and the SWOSU Athletic Association.

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My neighbor across the hall confronted me yesterday, accusing me of mistreating my dog. She said that “Cookie” whines and barks for hours whenever I am gone, and that I need to take him with me rather than leave him alone in the apartment.

Members of Cameron University’s Class of 2024 are influencers. That’s the message imparted by Commencement speaker Natalie Shirley, a member of the University of Oklahoma, Cameron University and Rogers State University Regents, on Saturday, May 4 in Aggie Gym.

On May 10, 1869, the transcontinental railroad was completed, finally allowing travel throughout the United States via train. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history, meaning that westbound travelers would no longer need to travel by wagon train.