2021

January

• National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Support Possible Through Proposed Legislation
  
• Mellon Grant Awarded to OU’s Native American Studies Initiative
• OU to Lead AI-enabled Sustainable Agriculture Planning Grant
• Data Science Institute Sponsors Three Science-Based AI Projects
• Innovation Hub Prototyping Services

February

• OU Names Inaugural Director of Its Center for Quantum Research and Technology
  
• OU ‘Big Idea Challenge’ Funds Five Projects to Explore Solutions to Global Grand Challenges
• VPRP Office of Corporate Partnerships and Regional Economic Development Bridges Industry and Research
• OC-ALC Team Tours New Sustainment and Modernization Partnership Facility on the University Research Campus
• OU Research Delineates the Impacts of Climate Warming on Microbial Network Interactions

March

• Bayram Saparov Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• Improved Flash Flood Tools Aim to Increase Public Safety
• University of Oklahoma, Peru University Partner on Health, Climate Research Projects
• Recent Economic Development Administration Grant Enables Opportunities for OU Aerospace Growth
• Exploring the Moral Identity of Recent Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates
• Caryn Vaughn Named Society for Freshwater Science Fellow
• OU Research Well-Represented in GRDA Annual Report
• OU Research Study Named Finalist for PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
• Book of Poetry by OU English Professor Receives 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work
• OU Chemistry Professor Named to List of 12 Texas Women Who Made History
• Corix Plains Institute Research Used Radar to Show Effects of Artificial Lights on Grasshoppers

April

• 3D Implants in 3 Minutes: OU Engineering Student Recognized for Thesis Video Presentation
• Wang, Galizia Recognized as Influential Researchers
• OU Doctoral Student’s Research on Fruit Fly Behavior Earns Best Poster Award at International Conference
• Interdisciplinary OU Team Launches American School Online Architecture Database With Support From National Endowment for the Arts
• OU Researchers Awarded a National Science Foundation Grant to Study Oral Pathogen Evolution
• An OU-led Study Sheds New Insight on Forest Loss and Degradation in Brazilian Amazon

• OU Professor’s Ongoing Work on Tar Creek Featured in Report on America’s Most Endangered Rivers
• OU Sets Research Record: Expenditures Increase 22.19% Despite COVID-19 Challenges
• Fornelli Receives Prestigious ASMS Research Award
• Venky Venkatesan Named Fellow of the Royal Society
• OU-Norman Vice President for Research, Partnerships Awards 17 Proposals Through New Funding Programs
• Daphne LaDue Receives NSF Grant to Continue REU Program

June

• Why do some people get sick while others feel fine?
• ARRC Workshop Uncovers Weather Applications for Phased Array Radars
• General Don Wetekam Named Chief Strategist for ADGS
• Why do some people get sick while others feel fine?
• Expanding Critical Severe Weather Research With Uncrewed Aircraft Systems
• OU Research Aims to Understand and Mitigate User Biases in Online Information 
• OU Earns Lead For Up to $208 Million NOAA Severe Weather Research Institute
• Shehata Receives International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations
• Read Before Swimming: What Research Shows About Local Lakes

July

• University of Oklahoma Partners With Wichita and Affiliated Tribes on Mobile Medical Unit
• OU Names Inaugural Director of Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems
• OU Assistant Engineering Professor Awarded NSF CAREER Grant
• Daniel Becker Named 2021 Scialog Fellow
• OU Physicists Receive a Nearly $1.7 Million Grant to Support High Energy Physics Experiments
• Scott Salesky Receives Department of Energy Grant for Weather Research
• OU Vice President for Research, Partnerships Serves on New State-Led Hydrogen Production, Transportation, and Infrastructure Task Force
• New Radar Strategic Partner Consortium Announced at OU
• New Business-Friendly Intellectual Property Options for Corporate Sponsored Research Announced
• 2021 Cottrell Fellowship Supports Postdoc Megan Kempher
• Xuguang Wang Receives 125th Anniversary Alumni Fellow Award from Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

August

• Cliff Wojtalewicz Named Operations Manager for ADGS
• Researchers Aim to Improve Oil, Gas Leak Detection With Quantum-Enhanced Sensing
• Assessing ‘Vision and Change’ for Non-Biology Majors
• Jitender Mehla Receives National Institutes of Health Grant to Combat Multidrug Resistant Bacteria
• OU Researchers to Develop Assessment Tool for Middle School Students With Disabilities
• OU Weather Researcher Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• Amy McGovern Named Editor in Chief for New AI-Focused Journal
• Petra Klein Receives Award for Urban Meteorology from the American Meteorological Society
• OU Meteorologists to Intercept Hurricane Ida in Coastal Louisiana

September

• New Molecular Device Has Unprecedented Reconfigurability Reminiscent of Brain Plasticity
• Researchers Explore How Incentivizing Conservation Might Boost Water Sustainability
• Hurricane Ida ‘May Be One of the Best Observed Landfalling Hurricanes’
• Shane Connelly Named Director of New Institute for Society and Community Transformation
• OU Team Moves to Reduce Emissions, Improve Efficiencies in Oil & Gas
• John M. Hanak Named Chief Innovation and Corporate Officer and Executive Director of the New Office of Innovation and Corporate Partnerships at OU
• New Scholarship Program Focuses on Computer Science and Tribal Nation Building
• OU Researchers Support Update to the State of Oklahoma’s Energy Assurance Plan
• Oklahoma Archeological Survey Preserves Cultural Significance With Oklahoma Department of Transportation
• Scientists Research the Harms Associated With Artificial Lights at Night
• Victor Maqque Selected as Operations Manager for Latin American Sustainability Initiative at OU
• OU’s Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program is ‘Planning for Long-Term Change in a Short-Term World’

October

• OU Receives Nearly $5 Million to Support Defense Research
• OU Physicist Uncovers the Hidden Potential of High-Efficiency Solar Cells
• OU Humanities Receive Record-Breaking Grant
• OU Researchers Aim to Improve Teacher Well-Being
• OU Researchers Contribute to Study on Possible Alternative Treatment for Lyme Disease
• OU Researcher Awarded NSF Grant to Study Katabatic Winds Contribute to the Growth and Erosion of Antarctic Ice Sheet
• University of Oklahoma Researchers Lead U.S.-China Grassland Microbial Biodiversity Study
• OU Signs Sponsored Research Agreement With Bedrock Gas Solutions to Advance Hydrogen Research
• Satellite Images Show Positive Impact of Conservation Efforts for China's Coastal Wetlands

November

• OU Research Team Leads Study on Global Distribution, Trends and Drivers of Flash Droughts
• Retired Lt. Gen. Gene Kirkland Named Executive Director of Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Innovation Institute at the University of Oklahoma
• OU Risk Institute Becomes Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis

December

• OU Researchers to Lead Public-Private Partnership Aiding Oklahoma Mothers Struggling With Substance Use Disorders
• Big Idea Challenge Teams Present Progress, Challenges in Interactive Workshop
• New protein fragment could improve cartilage regeneration