- Glenna Thornhill won this hand-made quilt at a recent SWOSU Office Personnel luncheon held on the Weatherford campus.

- Oklahoma Senators Clark Jolley and Mike Schulz were recently on the Southwestern Oklahoma State University campus in Weatherford visiting various departments and talking to several students.

- Dr. James South, chair and professor of the Southwestern Oklahoma State University Department of Music in Weatherford, was recently inducted into the Oklahoma Music Educators Association Hall of Fame.

- The Weatherford Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will host its first meeting of the spring semester on Tuesday, January 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Bonny Board Room (formerly Skyview Room) in the Southwestern Oklahoma State University Memorial Student Center.

- Dr. Dennis F. Thompson has been named Dean of the College of Pharmacy at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

- Southwestern Oklahoma State University is offering six Continuing Education courses and seminars during the 2012 spring semester on the Weatherford campus with two of the courses being online.

- Dr. Radwan Al-Jarrah, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, has announced that he will retire from the university effective March 1, 2012.

- Southwestern Oklahoma State University President Randy Beutler has been named to the Board of Directors for the General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute & Museum in Hobart.

- Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s Dr. Chad Kinder, associate dean of the School of Behavioral Sciences/Education and chair of the Department of Parks and Recreation Management, recently received a prestigious award at the state convention of the Oklahoma Association of Health and Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

- Southwestern Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy Associate Dean Dr. David A. Ralph of Weatherford was recently selected as the Pharmacy Leadership Society 2011 Honored Alumnus by the SWOSU Rho Chi Pharmacy Honor Society.