Cameron University will be closed November 27-29 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. No classes will be held during this time, and administrative offices will be closed. Classes will resume and offices re-open for normal business hours on Monday, December 2.
Celebrate the holiday season with festive tree lighting ceremonies hosted by Cameron University at both its Lawton and Duncan campuses. On Tuesday, December 3, festivities are scheduled at CU-Duncan beginning at 6 p.m. The next night, Wednesday, December 4, CU’s Lawton campus will come alive with community members, with the celebration beginning at 6 p.m. in Bentley Gardens. Both events are open to the public at no charge.
Cameron University invites residents of Duncan and the surrounding area to attend the CU-Duncan tree lighting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, December 3. The event takes place at CU-Duncan, 3100 W. Bois D’Arc Ave. and is open to the public at no charge.
In the coming year, Cameron University graduates will have a facility devoted to alumni activities on the Lawton campus, thanks to a gift of $385,000 from alumni Todd and Cindy Sanner. The funds, along with a $55,000 donation from alumnus Ed Goeas, will provide for the renovation of the current Cameron Exchange. The facility will be named The Todd and Cindy Sanner Alumni Center once renovations are complete. The naming of the building in honor of the Sanners was approved this week by the University of Oklahoma, Cameron University and Rogers State University Board of Regents.
Cameron University is pleased to present the debut of “Love’s Labors Lost,” an adaptation by Quetta Carpenter of Shakespeare’s earliest comedy. The production, part of the CU Department of Art, Music and Theatre Arts’ theatre season, “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart,” will be presented from November 21 through November 24 in the University Theatre. The curtain goes up on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Research projects undertaken by Cameron University chemistry students were among the 250 undergraduate oral and poster presentations featured at the recent American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting in Waco, Texas. CU students also attended plenary talks, workshops, special symposia and general sessions.
Dr. Rod Hall, State Veterinarian, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, will deliver the keynote address at the university’s 36th annual Beef Cattle Improvement Conference. Hall will discuss “The Importance of Traceability and Biosecurity in the Beef Industry.” The event, slated for Wednesday, November 20, is open to all beef cattle producers, educators and students in Oklahoma at no charge. Attendees are required to register online for the keynote banquet at https://www.cameron.edu/ag-bio-health/events/annual-beef-cattle-improvement-conference.
A lifetime of service to higher education – a significant portion of which involved leading Cameron University in Lawton – was rewarded Monday with the induction of John M. McArthur into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame.
Cameron University will honor active duty and retired members of the U.S. Armed Forces during a series of events on Veterans Day, Monday, November 11.
