RSU Radio News

RSU Radio staff members Josh Gammon, David Prock, and Garrett Powders will attend the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival February 25 – March 3 in Shreveport, Louisiana with the RSU Theatre Program to compete for scholarship awards. Garrett Powders was nominated for an Irene Ryan Award for his role as Baltus Van Tassel in RSU’s original production of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. He will compete for several acting […]

RSU students Garrett Powders, Josh Gammon, David Prock, Emily Mahan and Hannah Westlund will be awarded with three 1st Place, one 2nd Place and one 3rd Place award on March 13th at the Old Will Rogers Theatre in Oklahoma City during the annual Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters and the Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association’s student awards ceremony. Garrett Powders received a 1st Place award in “Radio Magazine Talk Program” for his […]

RSU’s 2012 NAIA World Series team will be recognized Sunday afternoon at the Diamond Sports Complex at approximately 3 p.m. The Hillcats played their best season in the program’s history last year by making their first appearance in the World Series. “We are very proud of everything the baseball program accomplished last spring and the way they represented our institution on a national stage,” RSU Director of Athletics Ryan Bradley […]

Rogers State University has named a television executive with more than two decades of broadcast and communications management experience as the new general manager for RSU Public Television. Royal Aills has extensive experience as a manager for both private and public broadcast stations, including seven years as station manager for Oklahoma Education Television Authority's operations in Tulsa. At OETA, he oversaw a 10-person team and had management authority for all […]

RSU’s Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority will be hosting a spaghetti dinner fundraiser on Thursday, February 21st from 6-8pm in the University Village B Club House on the Claremore campus. dFor only $5.00, you will receive spaghetti, garlic bread, cookies and a drink! All proceeds will go towards scholarships for the chapter.

“Celebrating Oklahoma Roots Music”…an article by RSU Professor, Dr. Hugh Foley will be featured in the Oklahoma Humanities Magazine (winter 2013 edition). The article introduces the upcoming Smithsonian exhibition, "New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music," by sampling the tracks of Oklahoma music. The article highlights Oklahoma's music history dating back to the Native American tribes and traditions of the time, and it closes with contemporary Oklahoma-affiliated country artists such as […]

Want to see some good basketball? The RSU Athletics staff will take on the Claremore Community all-stars at the “William W. Barnes Children’s Advocacy Center Charity Basketball Game” on Sunday beginning at 2pm at the Expo Center. The Children's Advocacy Center is a non-profit, United Way Agency whose mission is to reduce the trauma of child abuse. The Center provides forensic interviews, medical evaluations and mental health treatment in a […]

Rogers State University President Larry Rice has been selected to chair this year’s “Heroes for the American Red Cross” campaign. “Heroes for the American Red Cross” is an annual fund raising program and has helped to improve and aide those effected by disaster. “I’m proud to have been asked to chair this year’s “Heroes for the American Red Cross Campaign. Rogers State University has a long history of partnering with […]

Theatre at RSU is gearing up for another semester of great shows. The season begins with performances of “Home” March 7-8 and “Arsenic and Old Lace” April 11-13 and 18-20. “American Home” is a new play about Americans forced to renegotiate the American Dream, the extremes people go to when faced with losing everything and the resilience of the American spirit. It was the winner of Chicago's American Blues Theater's […]