Cowboy Bullets
By Shanna Boyett, Reidsville, Ga.
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- CASNR is home to 18 top freshmen
Eighteen freshmen students from the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources are among the 2006 Top Twenty Freshmen Women and Top Twenty Freshmen Men. The CASNR students are:
Matt Atkins, a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Stillwater, Okla.
Travis Wolff, a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Yale, Okla.
Myriah Johnson, an agricultural economics and accounting major from Perry, Okla.
Jered Davidson, an agricultural economics major from Fort Cobb, Okla.
Austin Horn, an agricultural economics major from Yukon, Okla.
Landon Vilhauer, an agribusiness major from Loyal, Okla.
Heath Burchfield, a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Fairview, Okla.
Dexter Matlock, an agricultural communications and animal science major from Shawnee, Okla.
Travis Schnaithman, an agribusiness major from Garber, Okla.
Nathan Thompson, an agricultural economics and religion major from Davenport, Okla.
Phillip Friesen, a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Enid, Okla.
Will Cosner, an agribusiness major from Roland, Okla.
Emily Kilian, an agricultural communication major from Medford, Okla.
Amanda Humphrey, a nutritional science major from Tulsa, Okla.
Cassie Bacon, an agricultural communication and animal science major from Prairie Grove, Ark.
JimiKaye Beck, a nutritional science major from Broken Arrow, Okla.
Erika Curry, an agricultural communication major from Sterling, Okla.
Lindsay Rother, a nutrition major from Lawton, Okla.
Each fall, the 40 freshmen are chosen by Omicron Delta Kappa and Mortar Board.
“It’s a very competitive process,” said Chris Gray, Mortar Board member and chairman of the top women selection.
The Top Twenty Freshmen Men and Women are chosen from their submitted applications. They later interview for a spot in the Top Ten Freshmen Men or Top Ten Freshmen Women.
“The main things we look for are characteristics Mortar Board idealizes: scholarship, leadership and service,” Gray said.
- OSU hosts national horticulture competition
Oklahoma State University will host the 2007 National Intercollegiate Floral Crop Quality Evaluation and Design Competition starting March 28 at the Student Union. The three-day event will host around ten teams from all over the country that come to judge and design various floral arrangements.
“It’s an opportunity for students to interact with the industry,” said Doug Needham, horticulture professor.
The event is sponsored by the Pi Alpha Xi horticulture honors society and the American Floral Endowment.
For more information on the event, visit the Pi Alpha Xi Web site at www.pax.okstate.edu
- OSU seniors earn top engineering honor
Four Oklahoma State University seniors won first place in the 2006 AGCO National Student Design Competition for their modified cattle chute.
The competition, held by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, requires a written report and oral presentation from each team of finalists. The project entries also included specified drawings and test data from the design teams’ work. Each entry was judged on several areas such as its benefit to agriculture, good engineering, safety and quality of presentation.
The team from OSU’s department of biosystems and agricultural engineering redesigned a manual cattle chute for W-W Livestock Systems, Inc. of Thomas, Okla.
“Students redesigned the chute as economically as possible,” said Paul Weckler, professor of the winners. “They built it last winter and tested it in early spring.”
This first place finish is the second for OSU in the last four years.
