SWOSU welcomed football alumni, fans, and friends back to Weatherford on June 5-6, 2026, for SWOSU Football Championship Weekend, a two-day celebration dedicated to supporting and advancing the Bulldog Football program.

Associate Professor of English Dr. Taylor Orgeron from SWOSU recently published a chapter in Emerging Genres: New Formations of Games, a Bloomsbury academic collection that analyzes evolving trends and structures in digital games.

SWOSU will begin offering a Master of Education in English Education in fall 2026 through the Department of Language and Literature.

SWOSU faculty and students from the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences recently shared the geological history of Oklahoma during a community presentation at the Weatherford Public Library.

SWOSU is proud to announce that Kylie Lindenfelser has been selected as the recipient of the Ray & Gay Clark Scholarship for the 2025–2026 academic year.

Ethan Mewhirter of Lawton has been named the Sonobe Family Scholar at SWOSU for the 2025–2026 academic year.

SWOSU is proud to announce that Abbyahna Wade has been selected as the recipient of the Roger Bromert History Scholarship for the 2025–2026 Academic Year.

The President’s and Dean’s Honor Rolls at SWOSU in Weatherford, Sayre, and Yukon have been announced for the 2026 spring semester.

SWOSU has announced some key dates for Fall 2026 activities.

Amanda Taylor of Hinton, Oklahoma, has been named the Bud & Wanda Smalley Memorial Scholar at SWOSU for the 2025- 2026 academic year.

Kennedie Helton of Weatherford has been named the recipient of the Garrett Daniel Carter Memorial Scholarship at SWOSU for the 2025–2026 academic year.

Additional charges have been filed against the suspect accused in the death of Southwestern Oklahoma State University student Logan Musil.

The Department of Nursing at SWOSU welcomed the nursing class of 2028 to Parker Hall on April 28 and April 30 for orientation sessions.

The Everett Dobson College of Business and Technology at SWOSU recently recognized students during the 4th annual Dobby Awards on April 28.

SWOSU Engineering Physics students gathered at the Stafford Air & Space Museum for the program’s annual Spring Banquet.

Grant Elam, a senior chemistry major at SWOSU, earned second place in the Regional-University category at the 31st annual Research Day at the Capitol.

SWOSU recognized five retiring faculty and staff members during a retirement reception hosted by the SWOSU Faculty Senate.

Sales tax collections in several Western Oklahoma communities showed mixed results in the latest monthly distribution released by the Oklahoma Tax Commission on May 8, 2026.

SWOSU has selected Eli Goodman as the Charles & Mary Abercrombie Scholar for the 2025- 2026 academic year.

SWOSU has selected Zadyn Johnson of Camargo as the Charlie M. & Olivia Downs Abercrombie Scholar for the 2025- 2026 academic year.

SWOSU has selected Ty Elliott of Weatherford as the recipient of the Dr. Donald I. Hamm Memorial Scholarship for the 2025- 2026 academic year.

Four students at SWOSU have received the Neparko Family Chemistry Scholarship for the 2025-2026 Academic Year.

Four students at SWOSU have received the Neparko Family Chemistry Scholarship for the 2025-2026 Academic Year.

SWOSU students presented research at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists, held April 23–26 in Tyler, Texas.

SWOSU students presented research at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists, held April 23–26 in Tyler, Texas.

SWOSU Rover Dawgs recently competed in NASA’s 2026 Human Exploration Rover Challenge, held at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

SWOSU Rover Dawgs recently competed in NASA’s 2026 Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC), held at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Mariah Yell of Union City, Oklahoma, has been named the Rebecca Reddin Jones Scholarship at SWOSU for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Lola Bruner, a senior history major at SWOSU, won first place for Best Undergraduate Paper in American History at the Oklahoma Regional Phi Alpha Theta conference on April 25.

SWOSU alumni and friends gathered on April 27, 2026, for the annual SWOSU Everett Dobson Golf Classic.