Researchers, Educators, Chancellor speak at Oklahoma Research Day banquet

Researchers, Educators, Chancellor speak at Oklahoma Research Day banquet

By NSU Staff Writer Laura Butler

The banquet luncheon at Oklahoma Research Day on Nov. 13 will feature five speakers. The banquet begins at 1 p.m. in Building A of the Broken Arrow campus of Northeastern State University.

The banquet kicks off with an introduction by Dr. Tom Jackson, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and coordinator of Oklahoma Research Day, followed by a welcome from NSU President Dr. Don Betz and greetings from Chancellor Glen Johnson of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

Johnson became the eighth chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education in January 2007, having previously served as president of Southeastern Oklahoma State University for 10 years. Johnson also served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1982-96 and as Speaker of the House from 1990-96. He is a native of Muskogee and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science and a Juris Doctor from the OU College of Law.

Following Johnsons greeting is a speech from Dr. Frank Waxman, a professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the OU Health Sciences Center. Waxman completed his undergraduate degree at UCLA and earned a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Illinois Medical Center.

Waxman is a patent-holder, co-founder of a biotechnology company and has authored more than 50 scientific publications. He serves as the director of Oklahomas Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in October 2008.

Waxmans remarks are followed by keynote speaker Dr. Timothy Lyden. Lyden is director of the Tissue and Cellular Innovation Center and Associate Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

Lyden has worked as a biomedical researcher at Ohio State and Write State University medical schools, where he held positions as Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow, Research Scientist and Research Assistant Professor. Jackson called Lyden, who holds two degrees from the University of Maine-Orono, a perfect example of someone who started at a regional university and has become internationally renowned as a scholar.

The luncheon concludes with entertainment by the NSU Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Tommy Poole.

For more information, visit researchday.nsuok.edu.

11/10/2009

Published: 2009-11-10 00:00:00