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about our banquet

This special event takes place every year just before Hooding and Commencement, and it is an opportunity to recognize the hard work and dedication of our students and faculty during the previous academic year. The 2023 event occurred on April 21st at the Global Learning Center on the ORU Campus in Tulsa. The evening included the honoring of outstanding students from our undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as those with exceptional Senior Projects/Papers. In addition, several faculty members were recognized for their excellence in teaching and service, and an alumnus of the year was named.

 

April 21, 2023

Outstanding Masters Student in Computer Science - Computer Science Concentration - Michael VanDusen

Outstanding Masters Student in Computer Science - Data Science Concentration - Gladys Chen Ying Xuan

Outstanding Applied Science Student - Andrew Fain

Outstanding Computer Information Technology Student - Spencer Langley

Outstanding Computer Science Student - Andrew Westlund

Outstanding Information Technology Student - Joshua Tipton

Outstanding Mathematics Student - Ruth Enns

Outstanding Mathematics-Premedicine Student - Maxwell Abmas

Outstanding Mathematics-Data Science Student - Jingee Mok

Outstanding Computer Information Technology Senior Project - Spencer Langley - Faculty Evaluation and Assessment Reporting System

Outstanding Computer Science Senior Project - Andrew Westlund - New Graph Approach to Biovista Primitives

Outstanding Mathematics Senior Project - Mardee Sadowsky - Effect of Three Different Grassland Management Protocols on Grassland Health in Northwest Missouri

Stanley White Scholar Senior Presentation - Jingee Mok - Trajectory of Students at Oral Roberts University

Stanley White Scholar Senior Presentation - Sharon Li - Optimizing ALEKS-PPL Math Placement Cut-Scores for Student Success in Their First ORU Mathematics Course

Stanley White Scholar Graduate Presentation - Michael VanDusen - “Flexibility-Inherent Clustering Operation for RNA Viruses (FICO4VR)”

Overall Outstanding Computing & Mathematics Undergraduate Student - Andrew Westlund

Overall Outstanding Computing & Mathematics Graduate Student - Gladys Chen Ying Xuan

Overall Outstanding College of Science & Engineering Graduate Student - Gladys Chen Ying Xuan

Special Student Recognition - R.B. Deal Award at the Annual Oklahoma-Arkansas Session of the Mathematical Association of America - C. Scott Alons

Computing & Mathematics Alumnus of the Year - Brad Thomas

Computing & Mathematics Excellence in Teaching Award - Sasha Turtova, M.Ed.

Computing & Mathematics Outstanding Service Award - Jayne Ann Harder, Ph.D.

Computing & Mathematics Outstanding Models of Excellence Award - Stephen Wheat, Ph.D.

College of Science & Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award - Sasha Turtova, M.Ed.

Special Lifetime Service Award - Debra Sowell, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus

 

 

past honorees

April 11, 2022

Outstanding Applied Science Student - Chad Scott Brandt

Outstanding Computer Information Technology Student - Jared Brian Dean

Outstanding Computer Science Student - Jonathan James Smith

Outstanding Mathematics Student - Gladys Chen Ying Xuan

Outstanding Mathematics Education Student - Morgan L. Frye

Outstanding Mathematics Preactuary Student - Corne Beneke

Outstanding Computer Information Technology Senior Project - James Cooper - Budget Management Application for Christian Credit Counseling

Outstanding Computer Science Senior Project - Jonathan Smith - Electric Consumption Predictions

Outstanding Mathematics Senior Project - Gladys Chen & Esther Lun - Neuropathy Treatment Efficacy for Peripheral Neuropathy Conditions

Overall Outstanding Computing & Mathematics Student - Gladys Chen Ying Xuan

Overall Outstanding College of Science & Engineering Student - Gladys Chen Ying Xuan

Computing & Mathematics Alumnus of the Year - Kenny Mullican

Computing & Mathematics Excellence in Teaching Award - J. Bryan Osborne, D.C.S.

Computing & Mathematics Outstanding Service Award - Leighanne Locke, M.S.

Computing & Mathematics Scholars of the Year - Andrew Lang, Ph.D. and Enrique Valderrama, Ph.D.

College of Science & Engineering Scholars of the Year - Andrew Lang, Ph.D. and Enrique Valderrama, Ph.D. (as part of Healthy Academic Community Research Group)

Special Award for William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - Caleb Scott Alons

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