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Geology professor receives grant to conduct research collaboration with Uganda

Khirstia Sheffield, Feature Editor October 1, 2020

Growing up in Uganda, he watched his father’s face fill with excitement as he told the stories of a mine in a coalfield. Strapped for money, his father was dedicated to making a better life for himself...

Students apart of the Structural geology class took a trip to the Arbuckles Mountain to explore and get hands on experience in the field. Photo by Jonathan Price

Geology students explore Wichita Mountains

Kristen Gregg April 20, 2016

As Alexandria Weiskircher, junior in geology, places all 19 of her new igneous rocks into her collection she started as a young girl,  she reflects on the weekend she spent with 10 other petrology students...

Geology Department gets 535-million-year-old rock

Yolanda Torres April 8, 2015

The geology department has recently added a new rock to its collection. A big, old rock. “Rocky," a rock believed to be from southern Oklahoma, is approximately 535 million years old. “I can...

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