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Winter 2007
Volume 27 • Number 2
On the Cover
Professor Richard Broughton’s fish team at the 2006 OU BioBlitz netted a decent haul of 27 different species from Lake Altus-Lugert.
Photo by Lynette Lobban

Editor:
Carol J. Burr
Associate Editor:
Lynette Lobban
Art Director:
George T. Dotson
Staff Photographer:
Robert Taylor
Publisher:
The University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc.
Ron D. Burton, President

BIOBLITZ

When OU biologists take inventory, they call in volunteers to scour the rugged terrain of a state park for anything that walks, crawls, flies, swims or grows.

HART OF THE MYSTERY

In the world of the traditional mystery, award-winning author Carolyn Hart continues to strengthen her reputation as the American Agatha Christie.

NEW DIGS

Volleyball at OU was on life support—as was the Field House that housed the sport—but a major renovation project and a dynamic new coach revived them both.

THE SPHINX HAS LANDED

She is a work of art—a great, big work of art—and moving her into place at the University’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art was a traffic-stopping undertaking.

FREEING AN INNOCENT MAN

Ron Williamson was a tormented, mentally ill Death Row inmate who found an advocate and friend in Mark Barrett. Their story is John Grisham’s new bestseller.

COLDCASE

Lynn Soreghan, one of the premier young scientists in her field, is bucking conventional wisdom to prove that a Colorado canyon was carved by ice, not water.

OKLAHOMA SYMPOSIUM

An elite group of involved citizens comes annually to Quartz Mountain neither to promote causes nor pursue goals; they come to engage in the art of discussion.

 

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