S25F-322 Wednesday Deep Dives: A Weekly Exploration
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Satisfying your intellectual curiosity, our three-fer Wednesday series offers something different each week. The first will actually do some diving as we explore the U.S. Submarine Force with a Submarine Nuclear Officer. Other topics include perspectives on the OKC bombing from the appointed attorney for Timothy McVeigh and lessons learned about radiation from WWII and the Fukushima (2011) disaster from a world-renowned Emeritus Regents Professor of Physics. Details on each topic and speaker can be found online on the OLLI enrollment page.
Stephen McKeever
Dr. Stephen McKeever is an Emeritus Regents Professor of Physics at Oklahoma State University (OSU). He has authored or coauthored over 230 scientific publications and 6 books in the development and applications of luminescence in radiation measurement and detection.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Member of the Health Physics Society and is presently Consulting Editor of the journal Radiation Measurements. He is the former Oklahoma Secretary for Science and Technology, and the former Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer at OSU.
He is a graduate of Bangor University (UK) from where he obtained his BSc, MSc, PhD and DSc degrees. He has served on multiple national and international committees for radiation detection and has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences.
Stephen Jones
Mr. Jones is a distinguished attorney with a legal career spanning nearly six decades. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oklahoma College of Law, Mr. Jones has held numerous influential roles in both legal and political spheres. Early in his career, he served as a personal research assistant to Richard Nixon and held legislative and administrative positions with prominent members of Congress, including Paul Findley, Charles Percy, and Don Rumsfeld. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly in 1968 and later served as Special U.S. Attorney and Special Prosecutor in high-profile cases.
Mr. Jones was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Oklahoma in 1990 and a nominee for Oklahoma Attorney General. He also served as General Counsel for the Oklahoma Chapter of the ACLU and was active in the Republican State Committee for over three decades. In academia, he taught at the University of Oklahoma and Phillips University. He is perhaps best known for his role as lead defense counsel for Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing case.
Ryan Sudlow
Mr. Sudlow served as Submarine Nuclear officer onboard USS Henry M. Jackson SSBN 730. Attended Kansas State University, and received BS in Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear Engineering option. Qualified as Navy Nuclear Engineering Officer. Now serve as the Principal Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and Energy Manager at Vance AFB and own and operate Sudlow Engineering Services, PLLC offering Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection engineering services for Northwest Oklahoma.