Oklahoma’s Research

1. Improving Our Future by Degrees Oklahoma’s Research Dr. Linda Mason Coordinator of Grant Writing Assistance 405-225-9486 lmason@osrhe.edu

2. The state system - 25 colleges and universities • 2 research universities - 11 undergraduate universities • 12 community colleges - 11 constituent agencies • 2 higher education centers • Coordinated by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) • Each institution is governed by a board of regents. • OSRHE • Prescribe academic standards - Grant degrees of higher education - Approve tuition and fees • Determine functions - Approve each public • Determine courses of study institution’s $ allocations at state colleges and universities

3. NCURA International Fellow (National Council of University Research Administrators) Dr. Linda Mason Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education October 2013 OKLAHOMA RESEARCH

5. 1909 became a state

6. Population – 4 million • OKC – 600,000; Tulsa – 400,000 • Demographics: • 14.6% German 2.4% French • 12.6% Irish 2% Dutch • 9.6% American 1.8% Scottish • 8.2% English 1.7% Italian • 7.1% Mexican 1.7% Scandinavian • 1.2% Scotch-Irish White: 72.2% Black or African American: 7.4% Asian: 1.7% (.4% Vietnamese, .3% Latino-Hispanic: 8.9%Indian, .2% Chinese, .2% Korean, Native American: 8.6% .2% Filipino, 0.1% Hmong, .1% Japanese) Pacific Islander: 0.1% Two or more races: 4.7%

7. Oklahoma is in the center of the US at the crossroads of I35 and I40.

9. ONE NET State Network http://onenet.net/ OneNet is a division of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, operated in cooperation with the Office of Management and Enterprise Services. The State Regents provides leadership for OneNet through our executive director, who also serves as the state’s higher education chief information officer. The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education was created in 1941 by a vote of the people that amended the state’s constitution to provide for such a system.

10. ONE NET Network & Hub

11. Oklahoma Research Network allows numerous wavelengths of light to traverse state-owned fiber and provides tens of gigabits of bandwith per second to meet the research and business needs of government, education, healthcare and public services. • All higher education institutions • All technical schools • All public libraries • All hospitals • 85% k-12 schools • Many businesses

12. Internet2190 US universities working in partnership with industry and government - Internet2 offers the nation’s only 100G-enabled network, the nation’s fastest coast-to-coast network for education and research Internet2 member institutions, primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries and museums get new technologies as quickly and as “connectedly” as possible. Private telecommunications and Internet service providers will not be able to provide access to this advanced national network backbone.

13. National LambdaRail (NLR)National LambdaRail (NLR) represents the common interests of the nation’s higher education academic and research communities - leading public and private higher education institutions and companies from information technology industries

14. Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) • SURA is a consortium of over 60 universities across the U.S. SURA operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy and promotes initiatives in nuclear physics, information technologies and coastal research.

15. Great Plains Network (GPN)is a consortium of universities in the midwestern states, dedicated to supporting research and education through the use of advanced networking technology.

16. A consortium of regional optical networks across the United States cooperate in the advancement of common goals and facilitates the interaction with local, state and national groups in establishing best practices in a number of areas.

17. Super Computing Centerhttp://www.oscer.ou.edu/

18. OU IT has been named to the 2013 InformationWeek 500, specifically #39 on the Top 250 list.

19. NSF Grant - $499,961 • National Science FoundationCampus Cyberinfrastructure - Network Infrastructure and Engineering (CC-NIE) networking grant - OneOklahoma Friction Free Network (OFFN) deploying Science DMZ, a dedicated research network 10G circuit shared by 4: • OU -- Oklahoma State U • Langston U -- Tandy Supercomputing Center(part of the Oklahoma Innovation Institute and OneNet)

20. Famous People Johnny Bench baseball player OKC Garth Brooks singer, TulsaGordon Cooper astronaut, Shawnee James Garner actor, NormanOwen K. Garriott astronaut, Enid Vince Gill singer, NormanChester Gould cartoonist, Pawnee Woodrow Wilson Woody Guthrie singer, composer, OkemahPaul Harvey broadcaster, Tulsa Tony Hillerman author, Sacred HeartShannon Lucid astronaut, Bethany Mickey Charles Mantle baseball player, SpavinawReba McEntire singer, McAlester Shannon Miller Olympic gymnast, Bill Moyers journalist, Hugo EdmondBrad Pitt actor Shawnee Patti Page singer, ClarenceOral Roberts evangelist, Ada Tony Randall actor, TulsaWill Rogers humorist, Oologah Dale Robertson actor, Oklahoma CityMaria Tallchief ballerina, Fairfax Dan Rowan comedian, BeggsWilma Mankiller Cherokee chief,Tahlequah James Francis Jim Thorpe athlete, Prague

34. Oklahoma Inventions

35. http://okinventors.library.okstate.edu/

37. The parking meter • Carlton Cole "Carl" Magee was an American lawyer and publisher. He also patented the first parking meter. A local judge, , responded that Magee was a; • “lying, un-American political harlot, fatheaded imbecile remittance man, dirty cowardly reprobate, wicked, wanton, false, malicious, dishonest, corrupt, unscrupulous, and worse than the assassin of President McKinley.”

39. The shopping cart • Sylvan Nathan Goldman (1898-1984) was an Oklahoma businessman and inventor of the first shopping cart. He introduced the device on June 4, 1937, in his Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma City. • Fred Young With the assistance of a mechanic named Fred Young, Goldman constructed the first shopping cart, basing his design on that of a wooden folding chair. They built it with a metal frame and added wheels and wire baskets. • Arthur Kosted Another mechanic, Arthur Kosted, developed a method to mass produce the carts by inventing an assembly line capable of forming and welding the wire.

41. YIELD Sign The first yield sign was installed in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was invented by Tulsan Clinton Riggs, a Tulsa policeman. Clinton E. Riggs (1910–1997), a Tulsa Police Department officer, invented the first yield sign in 1950. It was installed at the intersection of 1st and Columbia in Tulsa. The Tulsa Police Department's shoulder patch is patterned after this original yield sign. He retired from the department as Administrative Chief in 1970 after 36 years of service.

43. The flight suit Willey Post invented the modern day flight suit and autopilot. A flight suit is a full body garment, worn while flying a powered aircraft such as military airplanes and helicopters. These suits are generally made to keep the wearer warm, as well as being practical, and durable (including fire retardant). Its appearance is usually similar to a jumpsuit. A military flight suit may also show rankinsignia.

45. Wiley Hardeman Post(1898–1935) was the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits. Post was born in Van Zandt County, Texas, but his family moved to Oklahoma when he was five. His aviation career began at age 26 as a parachutist for a flying circus, Burrell Tibbs and His Texas Topnotch Fliers, and he became well known on the barnstorming circuit. On 1 October1926, an oil field accident cost him his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft. Around this time, he met fellow Oklahoman Will Rogers when he flew Rogers to a rodeo, and the two eventually became close friends.

47. Autopilot Willey Postinvented the modern day flight suit and Autopilot. In the early days of aviation, aircraft required the continuous attention of a pilot in order to fly safely. As aircraft range increased allowing flights of many hours, the constant attention led to serious fatigue. An autopilot is designed to perform some of the tasks of the pilot. The first aircraft autopilot was developed by Sperry Corporation in 1912.

49. Voice Mail Voicemail (or voice mail, voice-mail, vmail or VMS, sometimes called messagebank) is a centralized system of managing telephone messages for a large group of people. Gordon Matthews, a ruddy, tall man who was born in Tulsa and lived in Austin but worked mostly in Dallas, didn't want the voice mail to tick people off. But he will be blamed for it for many years to come, and he is very aware that this is his lot in life. "I always say half the world hates me, and the other half loves me,'' Matthews says. “I invented the way for people to not talk to one another.” He invented voice mail in 1983. And if you've got something to say about it, and it's not nice, well, you can just leave your message in his voice mail box. Like email, this method of delivering voice messages can be subject to abuse such a spam or vishing. There are Federal and State laws and regulations designed curb these abuses, such as the United States Do Not Call Registry.

50. In voice mail, no one can