Month: April 2014

OLLU community invited to retirement celebrations for Professor Ahlberg, Dr. Swiger and Theresa Zertuche

The OLLU community is invited to attend a retirement celebration for Ted Ahlberg, assistant professor of Computer Information Systems and Security (CISS) and John Swiger, PhD, professor of Finance, Tuesday from 12-2 p.m. in Main Building, Room 311.

On Wednesday, the Communications Disorders department will be hosting a retirement celebration for Theresa Zertuche, office manager for the Harry Jersig Center, from 12-2 p.m. in the Library Community Room. Zertuche is retiring after 38 years of service to OLLU.

Message to all Stromberg users

An upgrade of the Stromberg time keeping system will occur Wednesday at 8 a.m. The time clocks should have no interruption in the recording of time while the internal system is being serviced, but users are asked to notify the Payroll Office if they experience any unusual changes during the upgrade. A notification will be sent when the upgrade is complete.

Library summer hours

Summer hours are as follows:

May Intersession – May 3-9, 2014
Saturday, May 3, Closed
Sunday, May 4, Closed
Monday, May 5 – Friday, May 9 – 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Summer Sessions – May 10-Aug. 17, 2014
Mondays-Thursdays, 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Fridays, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sundays, 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Exceptions
Monday, May 26, Closed
Friday, July 4, Closed

August Intersession – Aug. 18-22, 2014
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Seed Grant winners announced

Faculty members participated in the OLLU Seed Grant Program to help them become more competitive in securing external grant funding for academic projects and programs. The winners for the 2014 Seed Grant Program are Renelinda Arana Bressler, PhD, assistant professor of Sociology, Robbie Kouri, MS, associate professor of Physical Science and Peggy Carnahan, director of the Center for Science and Math Education. Each winner will receive $2,500 for use in preparation of proposals for federal grants.

Softball sweeps Bacone to capture its first-ever Red River Athletic Conference regular season title

SoftballConferenceChampions The softball team made history Saturday after capturing its first-ever regular season conference title. The Saints swept Bacone College on Friday 7-0 and 3-2, and on Saturday, 13-4 and 3-1 to win the Red River Athletic Conference. The Saints end the conference with an 18-2 record and are at 36-10-1 overall as they prepare for the conference tournament as the No. 1 seed. Before the games on Saturday, the Saints paid homage to three-year seniors Amanda Hinojosa and Ashley Perez, and four-year seniors Julie Ramos and Kimberlee Briseno.

The Saints will head out to Farmers Branch, Texas (near Fort Worth) on Thursday to prepare for the conference tournament that OLLU is hosting. On Friday, May 2, game one will be between No. 1 seed Saints and No. 4 seed Langston at 11 a.m. Game two will be between No. 2 seed Southwest and No. 3 seed Bacone at 1:30 p.m. At 4 p.m., game three will be between the losers of game one and game two. The final game will be at 6:30 p.m. between the winners of game one and game two.

On Saturday, game five will be between the loser of game four and the winner of game three at 10 a.m. The championship game will take place at 12:30 p.m., and if necessary a second championship game will take place at 3 p.m. OLLU will provide live stats for all games. Visit http://www.dakstats.com/WebSync/Pages/Tournament/TournamentList.aspx?association=10 for links to the tournament games. Read full story online.

OLLU track & field sweeps distance races in conference meet

Track and Field 2 OLLU captured all the distance races in the Red River Athletic Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday at John Marshall High School in Langston, Okla. Langston University’s women won its second consecutive overall title. Ceara O’Donnell won the 1,500 and 3,000 meter races. Erica Ramos won titles in the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races. Nicholas Chapa placed third in the Men’s 1,500 meters and in the 3,000 meters. Next season, the Saints will feature a full track & field team for both men and women. Read full story online.

  • 10/15: San Antonio Express-News – Inspired by Special Needs
    Ken Rodriguez’s blog on George Williams, PhD, assistant professor of education.
  • 10/8: San Antonio Express-News – Ten Shining Alumni at NISD
    Ken Rodriguez’s blog about OLLU’s impact at NISD.

Men’s tennis loses four of five matches to Texas Lutheran

matt1The men’s tennis team narrowly lost to NCAA DIII Texas Lutheran University last Friday by the score of 4-5. The same result happened last year when the Saints had a 4-1 lead over the Bulldogs, but they were able to come back to beat OLLU.
No. 1 doubles Matt Ellis (JR/El Paso, Texas) and Tanis Martinez (SO/Carrizo Springs, Texas) beat their opponents Sanio Dizdarevic and Gunner Robison 8-5. OLLU’s Bernardo Pegas (FR/Bage, RS, Brazil) and Jacob Galaviz (FR/El Paso, Texas) were also able to beat TLU’s Kyle Thompson and Greg Nelson 8-6. Ellis also won his singles match against Dizdarevic 7-6 (7-3)/ 6-2, and Pegas beat Thompson 6-1/6-3. Read full article online.

Softball sweeps four-game series against Huston-Tillotson

Softball4-18-14-2The softball team swept two doubleheaders against the Lady Rams from Huston-Tillotson University (HTU) this past Friday and Saturday. The Saints won 37-4 in four games to move to 14-2 in the Red River Athletic Conference and 32-10-1 overall, while HTU drops to 3-13 in conference and 6-28 overall.The Saints are now one game behind league-leader University of the Southwest (17-3/30-14) and four games ahead of third-place Bacone (10-5/20-24). Langston (8-12/22-28), HTU and Texas College (0-16/1-27) follow. Read full article online.