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Recent News

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SoM Undergraduates Win Campus Awards

The University College Alison Smith Overbay Scholarship was awarded to Nancy Holden, a junior meteorology major. The award was established by Eddie Carol Smith and Shirley Jean Smith as a way to honor their daughter. One student is selected each spring semester. The award goes to a female junior who is active in the ROTC with a high academic standing (min 3.25).

At the University spring campus awards ceremony, the School of Meteorology and the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences presented the Senior Undergraduate ….

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Two SoM Students Receive Honors From NCAR

Dylan Reif, a junior at the School of Meteorology, was selected to attend the 11th Annual NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop. The program will take place in June 2012 allowing a small number of outstanding undergraduate students to begin on the path of becoming leaders in our field gaining insight into the breadth of research topics in the atmospheric sciences and becoming well informed about graduate and postdoctoral studies.

Matt Kumjian, a PhD student at the School, has been awarded and accepted a Post-doctoral Fellowship ….

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Four SoM Undergraduates Awarded Ernest F. Hollings Scholarships

SoM undergraduates, Addison Alford, Conor McNicholas, Dana Mueller and Andy Wade have been awarded NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholarships.

The Hollings Scholarship Program is competitive and prestigious. The scholarship awards are quite generous and include academic assistance for full-time study during the 9-month academic year; a 10-week, full-time internship position during the summer at a NOAA facility; and, if reappointed, academic assistance for full-time study during a second 9-month academic year. The internship between ….

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SoM Students Win at Student Research and Performance Day

On Friday, March 2, the National Weather Center hosted the annual University of Oklahoma Student Research and Performance Day. There were more than 85 graduate entries. Three School of Meteorology graduate students placed in their respective categories.

Awardees in Science B: 1st place – James Kurdzo, 2nd place – Jana Houser
Awardees in Engineering A: 2nd place – Fanxing Kong

Congratulations!

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The 17th Annual Tzvi Gal-Chen Memorial Lecture Speaker

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The School of Meteorology is pleased to announce that Dr. Alan Thorpe will deliver the 17th Annual Tzvi Gal-Chen Memorial Lecture on April 17, 2012.

Since July 2011, Dr. Thorpe has been the Director-General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). From 2005-2011, Dr. Thorpe served as the Chief Executive of the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Prior to that Dr. Thorpe had a period as Director of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research and a long career as an academic at the ….

Graduate Profiles

Matthew Mahler - B.S. 2006   

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My name is Matt Mahler and I graduated from OU in 2006 with a B.S. in Meteorology. I am currently the weekend morning meteorologist at KWTV - News 9 in Oklahoma City. I found my first job at KFDX 3 in Wichita Falls, TX in November 2006. I was there for three years as the weekday morning meteorologist before accepting the position at KWTV in December 2009.

One of my favorite things about my position in Oklahoma City is working with four other meteorologists who all graduated from OU. Though we all graduated at different times, we took a ....

Faculty Spotlight

Peter Lamb

Director of the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), Dr. Peter Lamb, recently announced that NOAA has selected OU to continue a federal/academic research partnership that focuses on weather radar research, improving forecasts for severe storms, and improving our understanding of extreme weather and short-term regional climate. "We are especially delighted to continue our involvement with NOAA at such a crucial time for environmental stewardship," said Lamb. "Devastating tornado outbreaks last spring and continued ...

Student Spotlight

Dylan Reif

Dylan Reif, lifelong Norman resident, is currently a junior in the School of Meteorology with a minor in Mathematics. He was selected by NCAR to attend the Undergraduate Leadership Workshop this summer in Boulder, Colorado, and is the recipient of the School of Meteorology's Junior Undergraduate Academic Achievement Award. Meteorology has interested Dylan since his father took him to the National Severe Storms Laboratory open house in 1997, and experiencing the May 3, 1999 tornado first-hand only strengthened his interest. After graduation, ...

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