Monday, December 18, 2023
OSU alumna serves community through Our Daily Bread Dalton Arredondo O’Colly Contributor Before she started working at Our Daily Bread, Rachael Condley spent time there during the holiday season. “I had volunteered here some, a little bit just mainly around the holidays when I had off work and the kids were out of school,” Condley said. “It was just an application process; they had put out the job announcement, and I applied.” Since January 2021, Condley has served as the executive director at Our Daily Bread, a food and resource center located on 12th Avenue in Stillwater. The resource center has a variety of services which include mobile market, satellite sites, grocery store and a garden. It has a partnership with OSU, Pete’s Pantry, located in room 042 in the Student Union basement. It is a program dedicated to feeding and supporting students, faculty and staff. Condley gives opportunities to Our Daily Bread, a local food bank, provides food for residents of Payne County. students to work for her at the Pete’s Pantry. Sophomore Emma Lukasek Lukasek said working for Condley good, and (if) she can help in anyway,” works for the pantry part time doing has truly impacted her experience work- Lukasek said. “She also still undervarious task which include restocking at the pantry. stands that I’m a student too, so that’s ing the pantry throughout the day and “She truly cares about you and been really helpful too and took a lot of checking in students who need assisjust makes sure everything is going stress off of me.” tance.
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Outside of campus, Condley has her team working on the different roles of the organization. One of them is having interns throughout the course of the school year. See Bread on 5
Portal party The ins and outs of transfers at OSU Taylor Carroll, Luke Parish, Braden Marsh O’Colly Contributors
Courtesy of the College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Eric Benton and Ph.D. student Tristen Lee worked on the latest version of SpaceTED. In 2018, an earlier iteration of SpaceTED (right) was installed on ISS, but was accidentally damaged by an astronaut shortly thereafter.
OSU physicists’ radiation detector installed aboard International Space Station Courtesy of OSU News
like a big weight lifted off my shoulders. And then to see the first round of data come back and realize I’m going to get a Ph.D. out of this? Yeah, it was a feeling of relief and then satisfaction.” Dr. Eric Benton and Benton and Lee’s Ph.D. student Tristen Lee radiation detector is called from Oklahoma State University’s Department of Physics SpaceTED, or Space Tissue Equivalent Dosimeter, and within the College of Arts and Sciences have been wait- is funded by NASA through an Established Program to ing years for the news they Stimulate Competitive Rereceived in November: their radiation detector was safely search (EPSCoR) award. From the outside, installed on the International SpaceTED is an unassumSpace Station and had begun transmitting large batches of ing piece of equipment about the size of a child’s shoebox. data back to Earth. On the inside, however, is “This is the biggest thing I’ve done in my life so a unique radiation detector called a tissue equivalent far,” said Lee, who came to proportional counter. OSU in 2019 specifically to “A TEPC is a type of conduct research with Benradiation detector designed to ton. “The work itself was mimic the response of human gratifying, but to see the launch go successfully, it was tissue to ionizing radiation,” Lee said. “This allows for
more accurate measurements of radiation doses that could be delivered to the human body than from, say, a Geiger counter.” While SpaceTED is collecting data 250 miles above the Earth, Benton and Lee see their research helping those traveling a little closer to home; pilots, flight attendants, military personnel and other professionals flying frequently at high altitudes receive higher doses of radiation than those on the ground, yet regulating acceptable exposure is based solely on estimates and computer models. “But the computer models have not been validated very well with actual measurements,” Benton said. “The work that NASA is sponsoring is largely in support of getting those measurements.” See Detector on 5
apiece in 2017 and 2018. The transfer portal opened in October of 2018, and it affected Oklahoma State in 2019 and beyond. OSU went from a school with no transfers in multiple years to having more and more players transfer each year. One The transfer portal has only been around for five years trend noticed is how many more players enter the transfer and has already become more controversial than any player or portal after having a bad season record. Typically, the more team ever was. losses you have, the more playOpening in 2018, the ers will leave in the transfer transfer portal has sent shockportal. waves throughout the college However, there is no athletic world and shows no massive difference between signs of slowing down. that and players who transfer The results from data anyway. This shows the success show that OSU loses more ofof Oklahoma State is a factor in fensive players than they have gained throughout the transfer the number of players transferportal era. They have lost 47 of- ring in and out. Another trend is that fensive players and 26 defensive more and more players enter players. the transfer portal each year. The Cowboys have only brought in 16 offensive players, These numbers are only grownine defensive players, and one ing and are expected to conspecial teams player. The data tinue to grow. The findings mean that an results suggest that transfers increase in players transferring increase each year. The data shows that trans- is expected to continue. More players are expected to move fers were significantly rarer to Oklahoma State each year, a decade ago, as no transfers showing that OSU is adapting were recorded from 2010-16. to the number of players they There was only one transfer lose. See Portal on 6
Payton Little Since the transfer portal has existed, OSU has lost 47 offensive players and 26 defensive players.