- Southwestern Oklahoma State University and its Upward Bound program recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education in the amount of $378,592.

- Two Southwestern Oklahoma State University students in Weatherford have received $1,000 Weatherford Regional Hospital scholarships for the 2008-09 academic year.

- Oklahoma's poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning author, Dr. N. Scott Momaday, was scheduled to read at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford on September 30.

- Southwestern Oklahoma State University senior English major Corey Mingura of Hollis recently received high praise for a research paper he delivered at the William Gilmore Simms Symposium in Athens (GA).

- The Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s President’s Leadership Classes have officially endorsed and plans to work with the Pickens Plan as an energy policy leadership project for the classes.

- The Association of Information Technology Professionals student chapter at SWOSU is planning to compete for the national championship in web design for the 2008-09 school year, and the chapter is looking for non-profit organizations that would be interested in having a web page.

- Southwestern Oklahoma State University students are winners of the 2008 Dean’s Scholarship for the SWOSU Department of Kinesiology in Weatherford.

- Oklahoma’s Centennial Poet Laureate N. Scott Momaday is scheduled to appear on the Southwestern Oklahoma State University campus on Tuesday, September 30.

- The Convocation was the first-ever one for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, which is housed at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

- Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s final freshmen enrollment session is this Friday, August 15, on the Weatherford campus.