NEW WEB SITE FOR WEATHER AND CLIMATE

The library at OU’s National Weather Center recently launched a Web site, titled “All Weather Is Good,” to help provide useful weather and climate Web sites and books to high school students and adults.

“Most weather bibliographies are aimed at either meteorology students, faculty and researchers, or elementary students and teachers,” said Ginny Dietrich, NWC librarian. “Our goal was to satisfy the curiosities of high school students and adults who are fascinated by the weather. A webliography was a unique approach to present these resources.”

Dietrich collaborated with experts throughout the NWC to compile sources on all aspects of the weather, ranging from hurricanes to climate change, forecasting to folklore, tornadoes to world climates, and weather history to cloud formations.

“All Weather Is Good” can be found at http://awig.nwc.ou.edu/index.html.

DIABETES PROGRAMS GET $30,000 GIFT

Diabetes programs for prevention, education and outreach will benefit from a $30,000 gift being presented by the Order of the Eastern Star to the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Almost one in three Oklahomans have diabetes or are at high risk of developing it. Serving the entire state, the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center is a comprehensive treatment, research and educational facility dedicated to eliminating and controlling the effects of all types of diabetes.

“This generous gift will help advance diabetes programs for the numerous Oklahomans afflicted by this disease,” said center director Dr. Timothy Lyons, who holds the Chickasaw Chair in Diabetes at the OU Health Sciences Center.

OU COLLEGE OF LAW STUDENT TAKES SECOND IN CONTEST

University of Oklahoma College of Law student Michael L. Brooks has been selected as one of three winners of the 2009 Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing.

Brooks’ paper, entitled “Uncharted Waters: The Supreme Court Plots the Course to a Constitutional Bright-Line Restriction on Punitive Awards in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker,” discusses a recent Supreme Court decision regarding punitive damages. Brooks will receive a $3,000 cash award as the second-place winner.

Brooks is a third-year student from Oklahoma City. He received a B.A. in Political Science from OU and currently serves as the Oklahoma Law Review editor-in-chief. Brooks will graduate in May 2010 and work as a law clerk for Judge David M. Ebel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.