Oklahoma College Briefs

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Published: November 4, 2009

Marketing professional to speak at OU about design, innovation

Denise Burton of Frog Design will present "The Role of Visual Design in Innovation” at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in the Heritage Room in Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave.

The University of Oklahoma’s School of Art and Art History and the Visual Communications department are organizing the free event, which is open to everyone.

Frog Design helps create and market products for a variety of industries, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, health care, media, education, finance, retail and fashion. Burton has led and participated in award-winning mobile, Web and application projects for both consumers and enterprises.

For more information, call Karen Hayes-Thumann at 325-2691, e-mail kmthumann@ou.edu or go to www.frogdesign.com.

Presentation set on White House during Lincoln administration

Historian Jean Harvey Baker will provide insight on life in the White House during the Lincoln administration at a free presentation at OU that’s open to everyone.

Baker, a professor of history at Goucher College, will present "Lincoln in the White House: An Intimate Portrait,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, in Meacham Auditorium in Oklahoma Memorial Union.

The lecture is part of the 200-year celebration of Lincoln’s birth. Baker is the author of eight books, including a revisionist biography of Mary Todd Lincoln and several books on the Civil War and on suffragettes in the United States.

For more information, call Ben Keppel, associate professor of history, at 325-6058 or e-mail bkeppel@ou.edu.

OU law student places second in national writing competition

Michael L. Brooks, a third-year OU law student from Oklahoma City, is one of three winners of the 2009 Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing.

For 16 years, the Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation has sponsored the national legal writing competition in honor of its namesake who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1955 until his death in 1993 and is remembered for his civil rights decisions during the 1960s and 1970s.

Brooks’ paper, "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 $3,000 for second place. Students from Harvard Law and Yale University Law School placed first and third, respectively.