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April 28, 2025
The University of Oklahoma will award honorary degrees to two outstanding individuals in recognition of their extraordinary achievements and generous service to others.
University of Oklahoma student Anna Hyslop is a double major in economics and global energy, environment and resources. She has interned with the U.S. Department of Energy, the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and the Brookings Institution. She also founded Students for Local Action, a student-run policy writing organization at OU. Hyslop plans to pursue a career in electricity law and local government.
As a professor of workplace psychology at The University of Oklahoma, Shawn McClean has spent years studying how work life is influenced by the rest of your life. He said accomplishing tasks in the same order every morning is helpful because people have limited mental bandwidth before they have to recharge.
Adam Moss from the University of Oklahoma, one of the lead authors of the study, and his team believe that magnetic fields can impact the convection of a white dwarf—process that brings helium-rich material to the surface of the star—and this alters its the fundamental composition.
"And it turns out if you do that over 60 years of data, you learn something that looks approximately like the weather and approximately like the laws of physics, but it was never hard-coded in," University of Oklahoma professor Amy McGovern explained.
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April 28, 2025
The University of Oklahoma held its second annual Party at the Palace to celebrate the graduating class of 2025, including the university's second-ever drone show. The Party at the Palace is a university-wide event for all graduating students that features food, games, and more.
April 22, 2025
The University of Oklahoma commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing with events and ceremonies on all three campuses.
January 17, 2025
Look back on 2024 in pictures through the best of University of Oklahoma photography.
