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Research Highlights FY24

719

Total Awards in FY24

$183

Million in Sponsored Awards in FY24

$286

Million in Expenditures in FY24*
*Reported to the NSF HERD Survey; Includes Norman programs in Tulsa 

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Research Notices

 
  • Federal Grant and Assistance Directives FAQ Now Available

    In a recent communication, President Harroz acknowledged questions and concerns raised by recent federal executive orders and Executive Branch communications related to federal assistance and grants essential to the university’s research enterprise. Additional information is now available online and will be updated as needed.

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November 12, 2025

Native American Energy in Transition: Old Problems, New Challenges in Indian Country

On October 2–3, 2025, the University of Oklahoma hosted the second annual Native American Energy in Transition: Old Problems, New Challenges in Indian Country symposium at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History in Norman


Research
November 06, 2025

OU Biochemists Lead Global Hunt for New Antibiotics

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.


Research
November 03, 2025

New Study Reveals Not All Bats Carry Equal Viral Risk

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.


October 29, 2025

Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Tribal Working Group Convenes at the University of Oklahoma

The Institute for Community and Society Transformation (ICAST) and the Native Nation Center for Tribal Policy Research (NNC-TPR) hosted the U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Tribal Working Group (FECM-TWG) on September 23-25 for their quarterly meeting.


Research
October 29, 2025

Newly Funded Research to Develop Defenses Against Wireless Inference Threats

Song Fang, a professor in the School of Computer Science, has been awarded funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation to create training-free detection methods and novel countermeasures to protect sensitive information from emerging wireless eavesdropping techniques.



Research
October 06, 2025

OU Researcher Awarded Funding to Bridge Gap Between Molecular Data and Tissue Architecture

Marmar Moussa, an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, has received a distinguished U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop advanced computational tools that could transform how scientists study disease at the cellular level, particularly in cancer and tissue remodeling.


Research
October 03, 2025

University of Oklahoma secures $19.9M for revolutionary radar technology

A $19.9 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation will fund the development of two groundbreaking KaRVIR systems (Dual-Doppler 3D Mobile Ka-band Rapid-Scanning Volume Imaging Radars for Earth System Science), state-of-the-art radars that will provide unique capabilities to close critical observational gaps in the atmospheric science community.



Research
September 17, 2025

OU-led, NSF-Funded Collaboration Aims to Transform Fire Weather Warnings

Nationally, individuals facing wildfire threats have no unified system to rely on. A team of researchers, led by Joe Ripberger from the University of Oklahoma, is looking to fill that gap.