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ConocoPhillips SPIRIT Scholars Toy Drive
 On December 5, 2007 the ConocoPhillips SPIRIT Scholars delivered 345 toys to the patients (ages 3 months to 17 years) in St. Francis Children’s Hospital. After making the rounds and delivering toys to each of the patients, there were enough toys left to fill the “Toy Closet” where patients can go to pick a toy following difficult procedures and/or tests they must endure. Drop-off boxes were located in Business Administration Hall and in Keplinger Hall during the month of November. Thanks to all who donated and to the SPIRIT Scholars.
 SPIRIT Scholars: Nathan Harris, Sara Hermosillo, Amber Bailey, David Scherer, Katie Peper, Kayla Gunn, Christa Burks, Gregory Eschelbach, Jessica Herren, Scott Rainwater, J.R. Watts, Shane McCracken, Garrett Stein, Kelli Denny, Daniel Hampton, Lauren Williams, and Kenneth Knoll.
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The Donald W. Reynolds Governor's Cup competition is the premier state-wide business plan competition for students of Oklahoma's universities and colleges. It is designed to encourage students to act upon their ideas and talents in order to produce tomorrow's businesses. This year 21 teams competed at the undergraduate level and 14 competed at the graduate level.
The TU Molecūprint team won first place in the undergraduate division, winning $20,000 and free services for legal, marketing, website development and hosting, and HR assistance. Team members are business majors Kenneth Knoll, Matt Ralston, and Ryan Hughes, chemistry major.  Claire Cornell is faculty advisor. Molecūprint develops and employs the use of bio-markers as a minimally invasive diagnostic tool for the management of Prostate Cancer, leading to a custom tailored and more effective medical strategy that is specific to each patient's condition.
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The TU Lunchman team won second place in the graduate division, winning $10,000. Team members include MBA students Duc Pham and Corey Redington, along with Cody Pollett, George Louthan, and Andrew Kongs, who are undergraduate computer science majors.  Faculty Advisor is John Hale. Lunchman is a user-friendly web application offering personalized dining suggestions using a unique suggestive logic feature, Internet Protocol location identification and viral marketing cookies to provide a variety of features for both users and restaurants.  |
"Pop Fizz Ahh"
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 All the universities from Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas compete in District 10 of the American Advertising Federation. District 10 is the most competitive district in the nation, because the winner from our district goes on to win the national competition more often than any other district.
Corporate clients sponsor the competition and provide the case material with a promotional problem that every team solves in their own way. Past clients have included Toyota, Visit Florida, Yahoo!, and Bank of America. Each team must prepare a comprehensive, integrated campaign, prepare a 32-page plansbook, and then “pitch” their campaign live to a panel of judges consisting of representatives from the client firm and executives from the advertising industry. This year’s client was Coca-Cola, and the challenge was to increase consumption of Coke Classic among 13-24 year olds.
This year, 17 schools competed, making it the largest district competition in recent memory. The University of Tulsa was awarded 4th place with their “Pop Fizz Ahh!” campaign, beating out 13 other teams including the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Southern Methodist University, Texas Tech University, and University of Houston.
The team began working on the campaign last fall, and consisted of 9 CBA (marketing) majors and 9 A&S (art, communication) majors. |
 University of Tulsa MBA candidate, Haden Snyder has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. He will spend the 2007-2008 academic year in Germany teaching English to high school students and working on a research project. Snyder plans to continue research on a cross-cultural study he began in summer of 2005 with TU business professor Mark Collins. He will be investigating cultural convergence between people living in Transylvania and Romania. After his year in Germany, Snyder plans to finish his graduate degree and eventually work in government.
The Fulbright Program, funded by Congress, provides graduates and professionals the opportunity to study or teach abroad for a year. Snyder is one of only five Fulbright Scholars selected from TU since 1997. |
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