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Overcrowded conditions at City Hospital No. 2 in 1923. Image courtesy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Study of Dental Calculus Informs Historical Cause of Death, Examines Impact of Systemic Racism in Historically Marginalized Communities

October 3, 2022

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development and Chief Operating Officer Dennis Alvord speaking with Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt during the roundtable discussion.

U.S. Economic Development Administration DAS Visits Oklahoma City to Discuss $35 Million Award to Bolster Biotech Innovation

September 22, 2022

Ming Xue Elected as AGU Fellow

September 20, 2022

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Former Air Force Commander Brings Leadership Experience to OU Strategic Research Efforts

October 5, 2022

A New Study Finds U.S. Future Floods Becoming More Frequent, Wider Spread, Yet Less Seasonal

September 23, 2022

University of Oklahoma Study Explores the Use of Carbon Dioxide to Make Acrylic Acid

September 19, 2022

Executive Director, Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Innovation Institute Lt. Gen. Gene Kirkland (Ret.), left, Stephen Gray, Director of the 448th Supply Chain Management Wing, center, and Dr. David Ebert, University of Oklahoma Vice President of Research and Partnerships commemorate an academic partnership Friday, Sept. 9th and a signing ceremony at the Stephenson Research and Technology Center on the University of Oklahoma campus. This first-of-its-kind academic partnership for the 448th SCMW will help them to better predict and mitigate supply chain disruptions. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Mark Hybers)

448th Supply Chain Management Wing enters first-ever Academic Partnership with the University of Oklahoma

September 15, 2022

Graduate student Ana Carolina Jerdy holding beaker of catalyst solution.

University of Oklahoma, Iowa State Receive $4 Million Federal Grant for Clean Hydrogen Research

September 14, 2022

Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, Ronnie K. Irani, President Joe Harroz, Mike Stice

OU Receives $2 Million Gift from Ronnie K. Irani to Enhance Energy Technology Research

September 8, 2022

Jessica Peterson

OU Research Study Finds Connection Between Symptomatic COVID-19 Infection and Impaired Pain Modulation

September 6, 2022

Top image: Photo from the virtual White House press conference on Sept. 2, 2022 announcing the 21 national recipients; Bottom image: Oklahoma Biotech Innovation Cluster representatives Madison Jackson, Oklahoma City Economic Development Foundation (OCEDF); Jeff Seymour, OCEDF; Katy Boren, Oklahoma City Innovation District; Sandino Thompson, Work Ready Oklahoma; Joyce Burch, University of Oklahoma

Oklahoma Biotech Innovation Cluster awarded $35 million in Build Back Better Regional Challenge

September 2, 2022

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Geothermal Energy Research is a Win for OU and Oklahoma

August 31, 2022

‘YES Oklahoma’ Project to Improve American Indian Representation in Cancer Research

August 30, 2022

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National Institutes of Health Funding Supports Chagas Disease Research

August 23, 2022

Dahiana Arcila in Reykjavík, Iceland. Arcila is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award to study the evolutionary history of marine fishes.

Study Finds That Ocean Cooling Over Millennia Led to Larger Fish

August 23, 2022

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OU Historian Receives NEH Public Scholars Award for Book on Interracial Families in Jim Crow-Era Mississippi

August 18, 2022

Developing afternoon showers viewed from Taroko Gorge in eastern Taiwan

OU PRECIP Field Campaign Concludes

August 16, 2022

Jizhong Zhou Receives 2022 ISME-IWA BioCluster Award

August 15, 2022

OU Professor Contributes to Congress Mandated Report on Priorities for Weather Research

August 11, 2022

OU Alumnus Daniel Sinars Receives Prestigious DOE Honor

August 10, 2022

OU Researchers Received Two Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

August 10, 2022

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OU Researchers Awarded $1 Million Grants for Pandemic Prediction and Prevention Projects

August 8, 2022

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OU Study Describes New ‘Molecular Tool’ to Trigger Targeted Immune Responses

August 8, 2022

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$3M NSF Grant Plans To Transform OU’s Faculty Annual Evaluation Process

August 3, 2022

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Bridging Social Science and Engineering to Design Energy Facilities That Serve Local Communities

July 28, 2022

Biedermann, Blume, Marino, research groups outside of Lin Hall February 2022.

OU Physicists Receive $1 Million Grant to Explore Quantum Synchronization

July 27, 2022

OU research team members (left to right) David McLeod, Emily Johnson, Ben Watson, Melissa Navarro and Christina Miller at the C. Carter Crane Shelter in Lawton, Oklahoma on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.

OU Researchers Supporting State Goal to End Homelessness in Oklahoma

July 18, 2022

Jizhong Zhou Receives Soil Science Society of America’s 2022 Soil Science Research Award

July 7, 2022

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Michael A. Schade Named Senior Counsel for Research, Innovation and Corporate Partnerships

June 16. 2022

Researchers at the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma are investigating plant diversity and taking samples for microbial diversity analysis

OU Research Finds that a Warming Climate Decreases Microbial Diversity

June 14, 2022

Eight students who completed the inaugural Aerospace Software Systems course through the Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Innovation Institute’s Software Foundry program were recognized

Students Complete Inaugural Aerospace Software Systems Course

June 14, 2022

Four Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft from Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, line up with Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers on Tinker Air Force Base’s flightline. Air Force photo by April McDonald.

OU and Air Force Engineers Improve Natural Language Generation for Auto-Routing Aircraft

June 8, 2022

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Biomedical Cross-campus Teams to Address Significant Healthcare Topics

June 2, 2022

OU Geothermal Team

OU Geothermal Team Wins First Place in National Department of Energy Competition

May 19, 2022

Julio Alegre, Ph.D., a professor at UNALM and the Peruvian coordinator of the soils and crops team demonstrates a soil analysis kit.

University of Oklahoma Strengthens Latin American Sustainability through $15 Million PERU-Hub

May 18, 2022

RCA Awards Banquet

United States, France Cooperation Advances International Weather Research

May 6, 2022

OU Astronomer Named to NASA’s ExoPAG Executive Committee

OU Astronomer Named to NASA’s ExoPAG Executive Committee

May 5, 2022

Physicists Develop Ideal Testing Conditions of Solar Cells for Space Applications

May 3, 2022

RCA Awards Banquet

Recipients of Campus-wide Research and Creative Awards Recognized

April 26, 2022

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New Climate Modeling Predicts Increasing Occurrences of Flash Flooding Across Most of the U.S.

April 26, 2022

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New Report Shows the Critical Role Microbes Play in Climate Change

April 22, 2022

Experimental Research Aims to Treat Metastatic Cancer

April 19, 2022

Mark Yeary Named Chief Technology Officer for OU’s Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Innovation Institute

April 18, 2022

Sam Noble Museum Receives Federal Grant to Improve Online Access to Native American Languages Collection

April 18, 2022

University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex Strengthen Partnership with Cooperative Research and Development Agreement

April 8, 2022

Image of comet C/2014 B1 (Scwartz) taken with the 2.5-meter Nordic Optical Telescope.

OU Professor Discovers Distant Long-Period Comets Quickly Fade Away

March 31, 2022

$11.3 Million Federal Grant Establishes New Center for Cancer Research at OU

March 22, 2022

Associate Professor Christian H. Lemon, Ph.D. (center) with Jinrong Li, Ph.D. (left) Md Sams Sazzad Ali (right) in Lemon’s lab at the University of Oklahoma.

Taste, Temperature and Pain Sensations Are Neurologically Linked, OU Study Finds

March 21, 2022

Green ‘Hippo’ to UV Simulator: Five Proposals Awarded through VPRP Strategic Equipment Investment Program

March 16, 2022

HALO hydrogen hub

OU to Support Tri-State Hydrogen Hub

March 14, 2022

Ancient DNA shows that a likely zoonotic infection of tuberculosis spread far into inland regions of South America

Ancient DNA Confirms TB Strains Associated With Marine Mammals Also Found in Inland Peoples

March 10, 2022

OU Meteorologist’s Cloud Research Recognized by National Science Foundation

February 24, 2022

Farrokh Mistree

Engineering Professor, Collaborators Win Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Contest, Named Semifinalists in Dept. of Energy Competition

February 17, 2022

ICAST associate directors

OU’s Institute for Community and Society Transformation Names Four Associate Directors

February 17, 2022

Tomás Díaz de la Rubia and Renee McPherson

Two OU Experts Provide Testimony on Capitol Hill

February 15, 2022

Temitope Olorunfemi

Combating Cervical Cancer with Computer Science

February 11, 2022

What can a pufferfish’s genome tell us about how it evolved?

February 9, 2022

ICAST/CFE Workshop Facilitates Five Ways to Support Impactful Convergent Research

February 9, 2022

OU Engineer to Use NSF Award to Advance Knowledge of Droplet Behavior (External Link)

February 7, 2022

OU Chemist Engineers a Sustainable Approach to Natural Products Drug Development

February 1, 2022

OU is in the top 8% in overall expenditures

University of Oklahoma Lands in Top 7.9% among Research Universities Nationwide

January 31, 2022

Ann West and Priyabrata Mukherjee

Prestigious Fellowship Awarded to Two OU Researchers – the Only Oklahomans Selected This Year

January 26, 2022

OU Researchers Receive Department of Energy Grant to Pioneer Demonstration and Repurposing of Retired Oil Wells into Geothermal Wells

January 24, 2022

OU Research Incentive Program Supports Eight Faculty Who are Sponsoring Postdoctoral Researchers on Funded Grants for 2022

January 11, 2022

iDIRECT Network Framework Developed at the University of Oklahoma Could Help Scientists Better Understand Biological Systems

January 10, 2022

Commercializing Technology to Benefit Society

January 10, 2022

Handan Acar (left), Seren Hamsici (middle) and Andrew White (right)

OU Engineers Build a Molecular Framework to Bridge Experimental and Computer Sciences for Peptide-Based Materials Engineering

January 5, 2022

OU Researcher Investigates Bat-Borne Viruses

January 5, 2022

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ARPA Funds to Support NAGPRA Work at Sam Noble Museum

January 4, 2022

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