The Student Success Center Newsletter

OPPORTUNITIES

Check out these great job prospects!

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Meet our academic all-star!

CAS COURSES

Take a look at a few courses offered in the fall.

WELCOME

Hello, Students!

The summer is in full swing! I hope you all are enjoying the break and your summer endeavors! This issue of the newsletter has some great leadership and job opportunities, so stay tuned for that!

- Lilly Amechi, SSC Student Intern

Join the 2021-2022 Food Pantry Team

The University of Oklahoma Food Pantry's mission is to contribute to the overall health and wellness of the OU campus community. Apply to be a part of their team here!

OU HSC Summer Immersion Program

Are you a prospective OU HSC student? OU HSC is hosting a two-day summer immersion program to expose future students to the 80+ programs on the HSC campus. Sessions will be held June 28-29 and July 7-8 through Zoom. Applications are due at 5 pm on Friday, June 18. Apply here!

Student Spotlight: Nitin Rangu

Q: What is your favorite CAS course?

My favorite CAS course so far has been Introduction to Biochemistry (CHEM 3653) with Dr. Najar! Initially, I was intimidated to take the course from everything I had heard about the intense workload and difficult subject material, but Dr. Najar's style of teaching the biochemistry of the human body with an almost artistic perspective left me constantly in awe and motivated to learn more. Even in the most complex and dense of biochemical processes he emphasized the value–both practical and aesthetic–of everything. Delving deep into the many intricate internal mechanisms that produce the world we experience gave me an appreciation of just how fascinating and involved a phenomenon life is. Having a sense of wonder about how the body works is something I think is very important for students like me that one day aim to become doctors and this class did a great job of instilling that in me. I definitely recommend this course!

Q: What you love about CAS?

My favorite thing about CAS is just how student oriented the whole community is! It really feels like there is a genuine interest from our college to help our students grow both academically and personally.

Q: What are your summer plans?

My summer plans include reviewing and interviewing applicants to join the team at the OU Food Pantry, which serves OU students and staff at no cost. I'm very excited to see our team grow and continue to work to uplift all at our school. I will also be studying for my MCAT over the summer plan to take it before the school year starts again.

Q: What are you looking forward to in the upcoming school year?

I'm most looking forward to just being able to sit in a classroom with other students and kind of "get back to normal." It's going to be a big readjustment both academically and socially, but I'm excited to get to experience the energy on campus again that's been missing with the pandemic.

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Students, meet Nitin Rangu! Nitin is a rising junior from Longview, Texas, studying psychology with a minor in chemistry. In addition to his academic endeavors, Nitin Rangu is the associate director of the OU Food Pantry, a Withrow Leadership Scholar and a member of the ethical choice education lab.

Opportunities

Omni Hotels & Resorts is building a new 600-room convention center hotel in Oklahoma City, and will need to hire for many positions. They are seeking a human resources recruiting intern to support staff recruitment for the properties. For more information and the application, click here.

American Fidelity of Oklahoma City seeks a data science intern. Ideal candidates will be familiar with at least one statistical programming tool, such as R, SAS, or Python. For more information and the application, click here.

Voraz Solutions, a Tulsa-based advertising firm, seeks paid marketing/sales interns with customer service experience and great communication skills. This opportunity is applicable to any major. Find this opportunity here.

The Nature Conservancy seeks a paid, remote summer intern in visual content and global communications. Details on Handshake.

Mercury Lounge in Tulsa is seeking a marketing and promotions intern. "If you wanna learn how to design ad layouts, do press releases, develop marketing plans and help make Tulsa cooler, holler!" Apply here.

DTN, a data, analytics and technology company in Norman, seeks a tech-savvy student for a customer success configuration internship. Apply here.

The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage has a new internship opportunity this summer focused on audiovisual collections care. It’s 10 weeks with a stipend of $700 per week. Find opportunities and apply here!

Regional Finance (Regional Management Corp.) of Lawton, OK seeks a paid branch operations intern to learn about and assist with consumer finance and business practices. Apply here!

The Bama Cos., Inc. of Tulsa, seeks a paid intern to help develop written training materials for team members. Preferred majors include English, education and organizational leadership. You can find the application here.

Partner workshops and job postings distributed by the Student Success Center do not imply the college’s endorsement of the mission of any individual organization external to the university. Students are encouraged to learn for themselves about individual opportunities and organizations and to contact ssc@ou.edu with questions.

James Howard Hill Jr.

James Hill will be joining the Department of Religious Studies in the fall. He is finishing his doctorate at Northwestern University and is scheduled to defend his dissertation, titled "Undeniable Blackness: Popular Culture, Religion, and the Michael Jackson Cacophony" this summer. He is the author of several published and forthcoming articles and essays dealing with topics such as hip hop theopoetics, kneeling and Black athletic protests, Black politics and religion and religion in HBO's Watchmen. An example can be found at: https://www.aaihs.org/watchmen-haunting-and-the-religious-imagination/

Professor Hill will teach two sections of RELS 1113 Introduction to Religious Studies in the fall 2021 semester (at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday).