LAWTON – A $5 million challenge grant to establish a $10 million endowment for the University of Oklahoma’s life-saving cardiac arrhythmia center was announced today by OU President David L. Boren at the November meeting of the Board of Regents.  The gift brings to a total $12 million in gifts and pledges from an entrepreneur who has never lived in Oklahoma or attended OU. Read more about the grant

LAWTON – With the University of Oklahoma placing a high priority on scholarships that support the Study Abroad experience, OU President David Boren today announced a gift from a Dallas couple that will establish $100,000 in scholarship endowments for students in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education. Read more about the gift

NORMAN – The University of Oklahoma at Norman has received more than $10 million in research grants from three funding agencies as part of the federal stimulus program, bringing the total amount of stimulus funding received by OU researchers to $23 million.  Thirty-three projects achieved stimulus funding for research ranging from archaeology to weather. Read more about the grant

OKLAHOMA CITY — Diabetes programs for prevention, education and outreach will benefit from a $30,000 gift being presented by the Order of the Eastern Star to the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Read more about Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center

NORMAN — With a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation, University of Oklahoma researchers will lead the effort to develop cyberCommons—an information “commons” or cafeteria where others can obtain electronic real-time data or forecasts similar to those produced for weather. Read more about Ecological Forecasting