The Institute for Community and Society Transformation has awarded $138,000 in funding to six project teams across various disciplines and departments. The funding covers a wide range of topics and prioritizes proposals that focus on the ICAST strategic areas of emphasis: Opportunity & Access, Technology & Society, and Native Nations Sovereignty and Cultures.
Enhancing Smoking Cessation through the X-Hale Breath Analyzer Integration with the Insight mHealth Mobile Intervention Platform
Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Art Education
Data-Informed Load Flexibility Management in Smart Building Systems
Bridging Edges: Reconnecting Maple Ridge and Gathering Place in Tulsa
Investigations into the Correlates of Rural Violence in Oklahoma
Center for the Ethics of Indigenous Genomic Research
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In a rare achievement for an undergraduate student, Colby Higdon, a geology major on the paleontology track with the University of Oklahoma has published original paleontological research conducted at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History that reveals new insights into whether competition between ancient animals was responsible for their extinction.
Newly published research in Science Advances, led by Jessica Cerezo-Román, at the University of Oklahoma, documents the oldest known cremation in Africa and provides some of the earliest evidence for intentional cremation using a pyre in the world.
Three University of Oklahoma graduate students have been named winners of the 2025 Three Minute Thesis competition, which challenges participants to explain their research in three minutes to a non-specialist audience.
