- Twelve Southwestern Oklahoma State University Parks and Recreation Management Department students on the Weatherford campus recently completed a Park Law Enforcement Program’s Firearm Safety / Law Enforcement Handgun course.

- NewPark Drilling Fluids recently partnered with the Southwestern Oklahoma State University Department of Entrepreneurship and Computer Systems in Weatherford by providing a $5,880 grant to create a student internship program.

- Honor rolls at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford have been announced for the 2008 fall semester.

- Enrollment is underway for students who want to take classes during the 2009 spring semester on the Weatherford and Sayre campuses of Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

- Southwestern Oklahoma State University recently sponsored a standardized university examination as a component of institutional assessment for SWOSU students on the Weatherford campus.

- Fourteen students enrolled in sociology/criminal justice courses in the Southwestern Oklahoma State University Department of Social Sciences presented posters at the recent annual meeting of the Oklahoma Sociological Association held in Claremore.

- Steve Stone, a sophomore at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, was recently awarded a NASA scholarship for his research in the area of disease states.

- Southwestern Oklahoma State University student Jon DeMotto of Norman has received a NASA Space Grant Scholarship to work on a research project in milk production.

- One hundred thirty-six Southwestern Oklahoma State University students on the Weatherford campus have been named to the 2009 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

- Charter members of Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s new chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, a Spanish honor society, were recently inducted in a ceremony held in Weatherford.