(March 31, 2010, STILLWATER, Okla.) – Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis will host the 2010 OSU Jazz Festival at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 10 at the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts.

Special guest is saxophonist Bob Sheppard who has performed with artists such as Chick Corea, Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. Sheppard currently is a member of The Peter Erskine Trio.

Sheppard has recorded more than 100 television and movie soundtracks. “Bob is an accomplished musician who is in high demand in Los Angeles as a session musician,” said Jonathan Martin, assistant professor of music and director of jazz studies at OSU. “We are pleased to have him perform, as well as work with serious jazz students from throughout the state of Oklahoma.”

Sheppard’s visit to Stillwater will include a jazz master class for festival participants and an evening performance with the OSU Jazz Ensemble I. About 100 high school students from throughout the state and two OSU jazz ensemble classes are expected to take part in the day-long event.

A graduate of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester (N.Y.), Sheppard is an educator at the University of Southern California.

The Saturday evening concert is open to the public and tickets are $5 for students and seniors, while general admission is $7. For more information, phone (405) 744-6163 or visit http://music.okstate.edu.

The festival is hosted by the OSU Office of the President and the OSU Department of Music, which is one of 24 departments in the College of Arts & Sciences.

(March 31, 2010  STILLWATER, Okla.) - The Oklahoma State University Department of Marketing has been selected to host the 2011 American Marketing Association-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium. The event will be held June 15-19, 2011, and will introduce doctoral students to state-of-the-art marketing scholarship and methodology as they prepare to launch their academic careers.

Established in 1965, the AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium brings together outstanding marketing doctoral students and the premier marketing scholars from around the world. The invitation-only event is the most prestigious gathering of its kind in the world. Organizers expect about 100 of the top marketing professors in the world and 100 of the most promising marketing Ph.D. students to attend.

“We are delighted to have been chosen to host the AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium for 2011, “ said Tom Brown, Ardmore professor of business administration and professor of marketing in the OSU Spears School of Business. “This honor gives us the opportunity to showcase the marketing department, the Spears School of Business and OSU to some of the brightest business scholars in the world. We are excited.”