University of Oklahoma graduate Lucy Coleman has been selected for the National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, an elite international doctoral training program that partners the NIH with the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge to prepare future leaders in biomedical research.
Entrepreneurship and engineering students from the University of Oklahoma have helped work on ensuring a clean Oklahoma River for the 2028 Summer Olympics. Their collaboration is thanks to a project designed by faculty at OU's Price College of Business and Gallogly College of Engineering.
A University of Oklahoma data scientist has created a free research tool to facilitate this process. Called ECHO – Evaluation of Chat, Human Behavior, and Outcomes – the open source, low-code platform enables scholars to design and run behavioral experiments involving conversational AI, Web search and human-AI interaction.
Three students at the University of Oklahoma have been awarded nationally competitive scholarships, including two Fulbright recipients and one Gilman awardee.
The Shyam Dev Patwardhan Department of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma is outperforming national benchmarks for doctoral student success, according to newly released 2026 data from the Academic Placement Data and Analysis project.
Kamal Mahatara experienced deep-rooted poverty growing up in Nepal. Overcoming the odds, the University of Oklahoma student is earning his Bachelor of Science in Biology and Community Health and plans to help low-resource communities.
One hundred and sixty-six University of Oklahoma undergraduate students eligible to participate in graduation ceremonies maintained a perfect 4.0 grade-point average throughout their academic program at OU. Of the total, 88 reside in Oklahoma.
Five current and former students from the University of Oklahoma have received prestigious fellowships, in recognition of their exceptional potential for STEM leadership.
The Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma has named Ryan Peters as Assistant Dean for Student Success and Advising. He begins his new role immediately.
The Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma has named Dr. J.P. Masly as its inaugural Associate Dean for Infrastructure and Operations, pending approval by the OU Board of Regents. He is expected to begin his new role May 16, 2026.
A new University of Oklahoma study — the first of its kind conducted in a real-world field setting over more than a decade — finds that sustained warming significantly increases the abundance, diversity and mobility of antibiotic resistance genes in soil.
Aaron Lim, a third-year student pursuing a chemical biosciences degree, is one of just a few hundred students nationwide to receive a 2026 Goldwater Scholarship, presented to undergraduates pursuing careers in science, engineering and mathematics.
A 12-year field experiment at the University of Oklahoma has revealed that warming's effect on soil carbon storage depends critically on precipitation. Understanding what controls whether soils gain or lose carbon has broad implications for the carbon cycle and beyond.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded University of Oklahoma Professor Rangar Cline with a one-year faculty fellowship. Cline will examine the pilgrimage practices of Christians, Jews and polytheists during the late Roman and early Byzantine Empires.
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed new hybrid materials that challenge conventional thinking about how light-emitting compounds work and could advance the field of fast radiation detection.
University of Oklahoma alumna Farris Tedder was recently named a 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholar, an international award given each year to scholars from around the world, including just 26 students from the United States, to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.
In the longest-running field warming experiment of its kind, researchers have documented dramatic shifts in high-elevation mountain meadows, revealing that changes in climate alter not only the plants we can see above ground, but the invisible world of fungi and microbes in the soil below.
Two communication researchers from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Connecticut have published a study examining how religious missionaries readjust to their old surroundings. Their findings provide insight into how people get through significant life transitions.
The University of Oklahoma announced the students named to its fall 2025 honor roll, a distinction given to those who achieve the highest academic standards. A total of 12,401 students were named to the fall 2025 honor roll. Of these students, 5,156 were named to the President’s Honor Roll for earning an “A” grade in all their courses.
Jessica Blanchard, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the University of Oklahoma's Center for Applied Social Research, is a key collaborator on a competitive grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance tribally defined approaches to genomic research.
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.
