This is the eleventh week of the spring 2015 semester.
ALERTS:
Ø The final day to drop a class this spring without permission is this Friday, March
27th at 5:00 PM. A ‘W’ will appear on your official transcript and will count toward
the five maximum Ws you are allowed. Beginning next Monday, March 30th, you will
need permission from your instructor and from the A&GS Dean in order to drop a
class; you must be passing the class at the time you drop it in order to receive a W.
Ø The deadline to apply for the David James Shellberg Scholarship is this
Wednesday, March 25th. All submissions must be received via e-mail to Brad Illston
(Illston@ou.edu) no later than 5:00 PM.
Ø Spring and summer 2015 degree candidates – remember to stay current on all
convocation and commencement activities by visiting the University’s
commencement website here: http://www.ou.edu/commencement
Ø The Countdown Continues: Just 34 days until the gala opening of the 2015 NWC
Biennale. And don’t forget that the magnificent Galileo exhibit opens this
fall! http://galileo.ou.edu/
Dr. Yoshi Sasaki, 1927-2015.
Remembering Dr. Sasaki
We are sad to announce the passing of Dr. Yoshi Sasaki, a founder of the School of
Meteorology, on Thursday, March 12, 2015 at the age of 88. Dr. Sasaki was known
nationally and internationally for his service to the University, the state of
Oklahoma, his profession, and to the Asian-American community.
Born in Akita, Japan in 1927, Dr. Sasaki earned a PhD in Science from Tokyo
University before emigrating to the United States after World War II. He moved to
the University of Oklahoma in 1960 to help found the meteorology program, which
has produced nearly 2,000 graduates to date. Dr. Sasaki held numerous title and
awards, including the induction into the American Meteorological Society’s title of
Honorary Member, the Fujiwara Award from the Meteorological Society of Japan,
and the “Order of the Sacred Treasure” from the Emperor of Japan. Dr. Sasaki was
also appointed as an Honorary Consul General of Japan. He held the title of George
Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Sasaki’s contacts in Japan helped bring high-tech industries like Hitachi and
Weather News to Oklahoma. He also helped to attract a number of distinguished
professors and scientists from Asia. Although he became a citizen of the United
States in 1974, he still held the title “Honorary Consul General of Japan.” Yoshi K.
Sasaki was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in
2004. Oklahoma even had an official Dr. Yoshi Sasaki day (January 2, 2009) by
proclamation of then-Governor Brad Henry.
Dr. Sasaki was preceded in death by his father, Kosuke Sasaki and his mother Itsu
Sasaki. He is survived by his wife Koko, of Norman, Oklahoma; son Okko Sasaki of
Ardmore, Oklahoma; son James Sasaki, PhD of Borger, Texas; son Larry Sasaki, M.D.
of Shreveport, Louisiana; daughter Anna Sasaki-Womack of Fort Worth, Texas; and
five grandchildren. We extend our condolences to Dr. Sasaki’s family for the loss of
this wonderful and kind person.
OWL Dedication Rescheduled for TOMORROW
Geospatial Summer Fellowship Program
The Geospatial Summer Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Oklahoma NASA Space Grant and the C
education learning. This six-week online program includes hands-on GIS and remote sensing training,
direction of Melissa Scott, Assistant Director of Research and Education at the Center for Spatial Analys
eligibility requirements and deadlines.
This Week’s Seminars:
Dr. Daniel Stern, NSF-AGS Postdoctoral Fellows in the Mesoscale & Microscale
Meteorology Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder,
Colorado, will present The Structure and Dynamics of Coherent Vortices in the
Eyewall Boundary Layer of Tropical Cyclones, TODAY, Monday, March 23rd at 2:00
PM in the National Weather Center, Room 5600.
Dr. Qinghua Ding, Senior Research Scientist from the Polar Science Center at the
Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington will present A global view of largescale atmospheric circulation variability in the last 60 years Thursday, March 26th at
1:30 PM in the National Weather Center, Room 5600.
Sustainability in Action!
A New Life for Dead
Malls: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/a-new-life-fordead-malls/387001/
BIOL 3463 this fall
Looking for a great Upper Division Science elective this fall? Check out BIOL 3463,
Water and Ecological Sustainability. This course examines the historical and current
issues related to interactions between the socio-economic exploitation of water
resources and ecosystem diversity, function, and sustainability. The class meets
MW from 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM this fall and will be taught by Dr. Dave Hambright. The
only prerequisites are junior standing and the completion of ENGL 1213 or EXPO
1213 (or permission of instructor). For more information, you can contact Dr.
Hambright at dhambright@ou.edu or at 325-7435.
This week’s Extras
Student Success Series:
Wednesday, March 25th Exploring Your Strengths: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM, Wagner Hall,
Room 250
Thursday, March 26th Finding Academic Motivation: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, Wagner
Hall, Room 250
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 (mahempe@ou.edu) by Friday at noon to appear in the next week’s
edition.
On this Day in History:
In 1775, American revolutionary Patrick Henry famously declared, "Give me liberty,
or give me death!" In 1806, explorers Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific coast,
and began their return journey to the east. In 1839, the first recorded printed
use of "OK" occurred in Boston's Morning Post. The abbreviation stood for “oll
korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct.”
In 1840, the first successful
photo of the Moon was taken by Englishman John William Draper. The landmark pic
was actually a daguerreotype, a precursor of the modern photograph.
In 1913, a vicious tornado hit Omaha, Nebraska during late afternoon on Easter
Sunday. In just twelve minutes, it cut a path of destruction five miles long and two
blocks wide across the city, killing 94 people and causing 3.5 million dollars in
property damage (around $83 million today).
In 1942, three months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S.
government began evacuating over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived
on the Pacific coast to detention camps in the interior of the country – even though
62% of the internees were actually United States citizens. In 1988, President Ronald
Reagan signed into law the Civil Liberties Act, which apologized for the internment
and authorized monetary reparations to each individual camp survivor; more than
$1.6 billion was eventually disbursed.
In 1950, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization was established.
In 1956, Pakistan became the first Islamic republic. It was still within the British
Commonwealth. In 1983, Dr. Barney Clark died after 112 days with an artificial
heart. In 2001, Russia's orbiting Mir space station plunged into the South Pacific
after 15 years of use; it had far exceeded its original life span of five years.
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