News & Events

Thomas Zeller Presents Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters / Please join us Friday, November 17, 2023, at 3:30 when Thomas Zeller (University of Maryland) Presents "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters."

James R. Fleming Delivers Taylor-Wei Distinguished Lecture / Please join us Thursday, October 5, 2023, 7:00pm CDT, at the National Weather Center, room NWC 1313, for the 2023 Taylor-Wei Distinguished Lecture “Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere” with James R. Fleming ...

Oil in Flux: The Mobility of Oil and Geological Knowledge Exhibit / HSTM graduate student Cecilia Slane created the exhibit "Oil in Flux" as part of her Dale Society Fellowship appointment at the Western History Collections for the summer of 2022 ...

Taylor-Wei Dissertation Fellowship Opportunity for 2023 / This award, named in honor of the scientific achievements of Dr. Ronald C. Taylor and Dr. Ming-Ying Wei, consists of a $25,000 stipend for one year of research and writing on any topic related to the history of meteorology, climate science ...

Karlye Price Awarded OU’s URECA Fellowship / This summer, History of Medicine minor Karlye Price received a UReCA Summer Fellowship for a project entitled “Generational Impact of Racism on Black Americans and the Medical Industry’s Bias in Diagnosis: A Historical Critical Analysis" ...

Mother of Dragons: The Life and Discovery of Mary Anning is Currently on Display on the main and fifth floors of the Bizzell Memorial Library. This exhibit showcases not only the amazing life and paleontological work of Mary Anning but also highlights some of the recent materials acquired ...

Younes Mahdavi Awarded Dissertation Prize / At a ceremony on 28 April 2022, Randall Hewes, Dean of the Graduate College, presented Younes Mahdavi with the 2021 Provost's Ph.D. Dissertation Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities and Fine Arts ...

Taylor-Wei Dissertation Fellowship Opportunity / This award, named in honor of the scientific achievements of Dr. Ronald C. Taylor and Dr. Ming-Ying Wei, consists of a $25,000 stipend for one year of research and writing on any topic related to the history of meteorology, climate science ...

Three Mellon Fellows Visiting in March and April / The Collections are expecting three visiting researchers in March and April: Dr. Renee Clary, Tom Sharpe, and Dr. Francesco Luzzini. All three will be using materials in the new Rudwick and Torrens archives, as well as from our print holdings in the history of geology.

New Open Access Publication: Al-Hawārī’s “Essential Commentary” / An open access critical edition of a 14th-century classic Arabic mathematical text has been published in the Edition Open Sources series under the co-sponsorship of the Department of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the University of Oklahoma Libraries, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. The book, Al-Hawārī’s “Essential Commentary”: Arabic Arithmetic in the Fourteenth Century, was translated, edited, and produced by Mahdi Abdeljaouad (Université de Tunis) and Jeffrey Oaks (University of Indianapolis).