This is the fourth week of the fall 2014 semester.

ALERTS:

  • There will be no walk-in hours on Wednesday (9/10) this week.
  • After the third week of class ends, all A&GS students have access to the National Weather Center, 24/7 (not just from 7 AM – 7 PM on M-F, which are access hours during the first three weeks of class). We have to wait until the third week of class ends to confirm all enrolled students and provide clearance. We apologize for any confusion.
  • You may no longer drop and add courses online for the fall 2014 semester. If you need to drop a class now, you must do it in person in the Office of Enrollment Services, Buchanan Hall, Room 230. A grade of ‘W’ will appear on your official transcript and will count toward the maximum 5 withdrawals you are allowed.You do not need instructor permission or permission from the Dean’s Office to drop a class at this point in the semester (unless you are on academic contract).

THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES:Just 42 days until the ICE CREAM SOCIAL and the A&GS Town Hall Meeting. It all happens on Tuesday, October 21st, starting at 1:30 PM in the NWC Atrium.

Geography Graduate Students Meeting TODAY

The next meeting for the Association of Geography Graduate Students is today at 5:30 PM in Sarkeys Energy Center, Room 442.

SCAMS Meeting on Tuesday

The next meeting of the Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society is tomorrow, September 9th, at 6:30 p.m. in National Weather Center, Room 1313. There will be free food for all members!

DGES Welcome Back Picnic on Saturday

The Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability (DGES) welcomes back undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff this Saturday, September 13th with their annual picnic, held this year at Indian Hills Point at Lake Thunderbird. The merriment begins at 4:30 PM. Please bring a dish to pass and a lawn chair if you have one (due to limited seating). There will be a van available for those needing transportation. If you need a ride, please contact Monica Deming at sap. The van will depart from the National Weather Center parking lot (by the main first floor doors) at 4:00 PM this Saturday and will return to the NWC at 6:30 PM.Don’t miss this great event!

2014-2015 A&GS OUTSTANDING SENIOR APPLICATION

Each year Sooner Parents recognizes the All-Around Outstanding Senior Man and Senior Woman at the University. Additionally, Sooner Parents presents an Award of Merit to the Outstanding Senior of each undergraduate college as selected by the college dean. To be eligible for consideration, a student must have earned a 3.25 retention grade point average and be scheduled to receive his or her bachelor’s degree in December 2014, May or August 2015.Students must submit their applications by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 26, to the A&GS Dean’s Office (NWC 3630). Each applicant is required to submitfifteen copies of his/her application so that Student Affairs may conduct the selection of the overall male and female recipients at the same time that the colleges are making their selections.The application form is attached.

Meteorologists in Action

Check out the interview (attached) with OU alum Matt Milosevich (BS in METR, 2002), the current morning and noon meteorologist at WLKY-TV, the CBS affiliate station in Louisville, Kentucky. The article includes a second interview with Mike Nelson, Chief Meteorologist at KMGH-TV in Denver. This article appeared in the June, 2014 edition of BAMS, (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society).

Teach for America Deadline this Friday

Educational opportunities should not be determined by a family’s income or the neighborhood in which they live. That’s why Teach For America isgrowing the force of leaders committed toensuring thatallkids have an education that expands their opportunities and gives them more choices in life.Leadership through TFA begins in the classroom, where corps members spend at least two years in low-income communities teaching students and helping them reach their full potential. Through teaching, they develop the skills, mindsets, and relationships necessary to become lifelong advocates for students and join a nationwide network of change-makers.

This year, 11,000 corps members are teaching in 50 regions across the country, while nearly 37,000 Teach For America alumni continue working from inside and outside the field of education for the changes necessary to make a great education a reality for all.Teach for American provides full salary and benefits; federal student loans are also deferred while you’re in the program. PLEASE NOTE that all majors and career backgrounds may apply; you do NOT need to have a background in Education. The next application deadline is this Friday, September 12th. To learn more about this great opportunity, visit

This week’s Seminars:

School of Meteorology doctoral degree candidate Ryan May will present his dissertation defense, Estimating and Mitigating Errors in Dual-Polarization Radar Attenuation Correction TODAY, September 8th, at 3:00 PM in the National Weather Center, Room 5820.

Professor Alexander Khain, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will present Mechanism of hail formation and hail-Zdr column relationship as seen from simulations with cloud model with spectral bin microphysicson Wednesday, September 10 at 2:00 PM in the National Weather Center, Room 1350.

Dr. Charlotte Wainwright, from OU’s School of Meteorology, will present How to use LaTeX for manuscript preparation: an overview for beginners on Friday, September 12 at 12:00 PM in the National Weather Center, Room 5600. A light lunch will be served.

Largest Recruiting Event of the Year on Wednesday

Don’t miss the Sooner Showcase Career Fair, this Wednesday, September 10th in the Lloyd Noble Center from 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM! This wonderful event provides students with the opportunity to meet with over 140 organizations to network about full-time job opportunities and internships. ALL students are encouraged to attend, even if you’re not planning to graduate this spring. There’s plenty of parking at Lloyd Noble and the CART also makes frequent stops there.
For all the details about the Big Day, go here:

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR MM?

If you have any announcement you would like posted in Monday Memo (e.g., meetings, seminars, jobs, internships or just some great news) please send it to Asst. Dean Hempe () by Friday at noon to appear in the next week’s edition.

On this Day in History:

In 1504, 26-year-old Michelangelo’s magnificent 13-foot, 6-ton marble statue of the Biblical hero David was unveiled in Florence, Italy. The massive statue was carved from a single block of marble and took the artist over two years to complete. David receives well over a million visitors every year.

In 1565, a Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, Florida.
In 1664, the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York in honor of the then Duke of York (who later became King James II of England).

In 1866, the first recorded birth of sextuplets in the U.S. took place in Chicago, Illinois, when James and Jennie Bushnell became parents of three boys and three girls. All six babies were born alive; sadly, two of them didn’t make it past their first birthday. The other four children lived into old age; the last surviving sextuplet, Mrs. Alincia Bushnell Parker, died in 1952 at the age of 86.

In 1900, the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history hit Galveston, Texas. The huge storm killed more than 6,000 people; it caused so much destruction that reliable estimates of the number of victims are difficult to make (some believe that as many as 12,000 people died). For a full account of this horrific day, read the fascinating “Isaac’s Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History.”

In 1920, U.S. Transcontinental Airmail service began, with flights from New York to San Francisco. At this time, mail was still carried on trains at night and flown by day, but the service was still almost a day faster than when it was transported solely by train.

In 1930,Scotch tape was developed by Richard G. Drew at 3M, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

In 1935,U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded by Dr. Carl Weiss, the relative of a political enemy. Weiss was killed instantly by Long’s bodyguards; Long himself died two days later, eleven days after his 42nd birthday.

In 1941, German forces began their infamous “900-Day Siege” of Leningrad, a major industrial center and the USSR's second-largest city. The German armies were later joined by Finnish forces that advanced against Leningrad down the Karelian Isthmus. The siege was finally lifted on January 22, 1944, after a grueling 872 days (although it must have felt like 18,000 days). Well over a million civilians and Red Army defenders were killed. A million more were evacuated, many of whom died of starvation.

In 1974, in a controversial executive action, new President Gerald Ford gave his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon a “full, free, and absolute pardon” for any crimes Nixon may have committed or participated in while in office. The action was widely condemned at the time. Ford later defended this action before the House Judiciary Committee, explaining that he wanted to end the national divisions created by the Watergate scandal.

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