Are you considering counseling but a little intimidated about starting the process? Consider stopping by a Let's Talk session for a free, informal consultation session with the Al Carlozzi Center for Counseling. No paperwork, no insurance, just a short chat with someone who may be able to help. 

Let's Talk Weekly Schedule

• Mon. from 2:30-4:30 PM in 103 North Hall  
• Tues. from  3-5 PM in 103 North Hall
• Wed. from 11 AM - 1 PM in 103 North Hall
  • This time slot offers targeted consultation for BIPOC students, but any student is welcome to attend.
• Thurs. from 2:30-4:30 PM in 103 North Hall
  • This time slot offers targeted consultation for graduate students, but any student is welcome to attend.

Flu Vaccine Clinic
Oct. 26 & Nov. 4
2:30-4:30 p.m.
North Hall Lobby

OSU-Tulsa faculty, staff and currently enrolled students can receive a free flu vaccine during our vaccine clinic. Participants must have their student or employee ID. Employees will also need to bring their insurance card.

Virtual Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Safiya U. Noble
Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021
4-5:30 p.m.

This virtual lecture and Q&A session is free to the public, but you must register to receive a link and code for the event. While you will be able to submit questions at the time of registration, you will also be able to submit during the live session. Questions will require moderator approval.

Register Now

The online event URL will be sent to you in an email confirming your registration.

About Dr. Noble

Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Co-Founder and Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She holds affiliations in the School of Education & Information Studies, and is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG). Dr. Noble is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, serving those vulnerable to online harassment. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications.

Dr. Noble is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology. She is regularly quoted for her expertise on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias by national and international press including The Guardian, the BBC, CNN International, USA Today, Wired, Time, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The New York Times, and a host of local news and podcasts. Her popular writing includes critiques on the loss of public goods to Big Tech companies, as featured in Noema magazine.

Safiya is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online and Emotions, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards, and holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Fresno where she was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018. Recently, she was named in the “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers of 2019” by Government Technology magazine.

In 2020, she was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award from the iSchool Alumni Association (ISAA), and is also the inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Award winner from the Illinois Alumni Association at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This event is sponsored by the OSU Libraries, OSU Center for Africana Studies, OSU Humanities Initiative, OSU Writing Center, and the OSU Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies program.

The Center for Poets and Writers at OSU-Tulsa is celebrating its fifth annual Writers on Greenwood event November 4th, 2021 with special guests, poets Clemonce Heard and Tyehimba Jess. The event will take place at the OSU-Tulsa Auditorium.

5 p.m. - Craft Talk  

Join us for a craft talk for writers with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess. Registration required.

Register for Craft Talk

7:30 p.m. - Public Reading & Discussion with poets Clemonce Heard and Tyehimba Jess. Book signing to follow.

This reading and conversation, to take place at the OSU-Tulsa auditorium, is free and open to the public. Masks are expected and vaccination for all attendees is strongly advised. Fulton Street Books will have books available for purchase and signing. 

Reception to follow at the Greenwood Gallery, sponsored by the Bob Dylan Center.

About Tyehimba Jess: Pultizer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess is a genre-bending poet who artfully combines slam and blues traditions and explores African American history in his two poetry collections, LEADBELLY and OLIO. OLIO, the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is inspired by the lives of African American musicians and performers. Clemonce Heard's debut, TRAGIC CITY, is inspired by the Tulsa Race Massacre and has won the Anhinga Robert Dana Prize.

About Clemonce Heard: Clemonce Heard was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the winner of the 2020 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize, selected by Major Jackson. His poetry collection, TRAGIC CITY, which investigates the events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in October 2021. Heard’s work has appeared or is forthcoming from Obsidian, The Missouri Review, Cimarron Review, Iron Horse, World Literature Today, Poetry, Rattle, Ruminate, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Oklahoma State University. Heard was a recipient of a 2018-2019 Tulsa Artist Fellowship and was the 2019-2020 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently lives in San Antonio, Texas, and serves as the Sala Diaz artist-in-residence.

Writers on Greenwood is an annual series that adds to the cultural life of Tulsa in service to the outreach mission of OSU, engaging voices from the community and striving for greater inclusivity in the literary arts.

Funding for this program is provided in part by a grant from Oklahoma Humanities (OH) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of OH or NEH.