By Scott Meacham In 1943, when the musical Oklahoma opened on Broadway, our state had only been a state for 36 years. Oklahoma not only gave us the best state song in the entire country, this play, named for our state, spawned innovation at every turn. Before Oklahoma, Broadway musicals were a series of bigRead more
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By Scott Meacham We are in difficult times — and when times are difficult, individuals, business, and even entire states have to do things differently. Think back to what was happening in Oklahoma in the eighties. It was like living The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath jammed into less than ten short years.Read more
By Scott Meacham When Younghwa “Henry” Shin, Ph.D., a co-founder and CEO of Excitant Therapeutics entered graduate school at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), his interest was neuroscience. Then, during a year of rotation structured to give students a taste of different projects and specialties, he was assigned to Dr. Jian-Xing (Jay)Read more
By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoman NORMAN – When Ashton Robinson Cook was 3 years old, a tornado struck the mobile home in which he lived with his mother in Little Rock, Ark. The experience terrified Cook, but also stirred a life-long interest in all things weather. He became the first African AmericanRead more
