Thirty-eight students eligible to graduate from the University of Oklahoma in December maintained perfect 4.0 grade-point averages throughout their undergraduate careers at OU. Of the total, more than half are from Oklahoma.
A team of University of Oklahoma materials scientists has done what many in the field thought impossible: magnetize quantum dots by “doping” them with manganese. The implications span everything from how we power our homes to how we build computers, scan for diseases, grow crops and illuminate our world.
Three students from the University of Oklahoma were named finalists for Rhodes scholarships this fall, highlighting their leadership qualities and achievements in and out of the classroom.
Sixteen seniors from the University of Oklahoma have been selected as Outstanding Seniors for their exceptional achievements in scholarship, honors, awards, leadership and service. Of these 16 students, Jhanvi Patel from Oklahoma City was chosen by a committee of OU faculty, staff and students as the overall Outstanding Senior.
Two University of Oklahoma faculty in the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences have been ranked by analytics site ScholarGPS as among the world’s most productive and impactful sociologists over the past five years.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded University of Oklahoma Professor Luis Cortest with a Chairman’s Award to Individuals for his project, “Juan de Mariana, the Last Great Spanish Thinker.”
Helen Zgurskaya and Valentin Rybenkov are leading a five-year, $5.3 million project funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to find new ways to deliver lifesaving drugs directly into resistant pathogens.
NORMAN, OKLA. – A groundbreaking study published in Nature’s Communications Biology sheds new light on the relationship between bats and dangerous viruses. Led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma, the study shows that contrary to widespread assumptions, not all bats carry viruses with high epidemic potential, only specific groups of species.
A new exhibit at the University of Oklahoma is shedding light on a lost era of Russian nobility – with the help of a local connection. “Russia's Romanovs in War, Revolution, and Exile, 1916-2016: Stories from a Family Archive” is open for free to the public through February at the Bizzell Memorial Library’s first-floor exhibition space.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from across the University of Oklahoma has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to transform how communities anticipate and mitigate risks from treefall during extreme weather events.
The University of Oklahoma’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage will host its annual Constitution Day program on Wednesday, Sept. 17, featuring a lecture by Rogers M. Smith, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and leading scholar of American constitutional history.
Alexandra Bentz has received a prestigious NSF Early Career award to study how mother birds chemically communicate about their environment to their offspring.
University of Oklahoma students will take part in a new five-year project to address important challenges across the state of Oklahoma. Leveraging principles from engineering, chemistry, and physics, enhanced by business acumen and strategic communication skills, the team will translate their fundamental discoveries to prepare a new generation of leaders to support Oklahoma’s prosperity.
The Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Greg Burge will serve as the college’s next Associate Dean for Academic Programs beginning August 16, 2025.
Hayley Lanier, Ph.D., an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Oklahoma and associate curator of mammalogy at the Sam Noble Museum, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to conduct evolutionary genomics research in the Czech Republic during the 2025–2026 academic year.
Junle Jiang, an assistant professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of Oklahoma, has received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to study how major subduction zone earthquakes occur and evolve over time. This research could help improve earthquake hazard forecasting in some of the world’s most seismically active regions.
Since its founding in 2014, the Withrow Leadership Scholars program at the University of Oklahoma has empowered students with transformative opportunities. Thanks to a $1 million endowment from Jon and Cathryn Withrow, the program annually supports 20 upperclassmen selected from the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences in year-round leadership training and a study-abroad experience in France.
Two anthropology faculty members at the University of Oklahoma are earning international recognition for recent publications that shed light on critical aspects of cultural heritage and ancient innovation.
University of Oklahoma Associate Professor of French, Julia Abramson, has published an article with Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment that reveals how religion, transatlantic networks and political upheaval shaped the earliest business efforts of the Du Pont family decades before their name became synonymous with American industry.
An anonymous gift made it possible for seven University of Oklahoma students to spend a semester conducting immersive research across the U.S. and Iceland – diving into topics rarely covered in standard textbooks.
Julie Dawkins was awarded the prestigious Carl Albert Award at the 2024 Impact Awards Celebration for the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, recognizing Julie's exceptional achievements, leadership, and contributions to both academic and community spheres.
The OU Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma held its annual Awards Lunch on Thursday, April 25th, at the Noun Hotel. The event, now named the Impact Awards Luncheon (formerly Kaleidoscope), celebrates the significant contributions of outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni to the university community.
On February 13, 2024 Tom W. Boyd, Ph.D., 90, passed away in his home in Norman, Oklahoma after a lengthy illness. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he moved to Oklahoma in 1956 to begin his undergraduate education at Bethany Nazarene College (now SNU). He completed his MA in Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma in 1962, after serving as a graduate assistant in that program. After a year at Yale University, Boyd graduated with his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Philosophy of Religion in 1973. He was granted an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma in 2013.
