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Campus & Community

OU Professor Named Fulbright Scholar

June 02, 2025

University of Oklahoma Associate Professor Dustin Condren, Ph.D., has been named a 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Scholar by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

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Campus & Community

OU Film Scholar Wins National Pop Culture Book Award

May 30, 2025

Victoria Sturtevant, an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Oklahoma, has been named the recipient of the 2025 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer by the Popular Culture Association for her book It’s All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy

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Campus & Community
May 20, 2025

OU-Led S3OK Project Charts Path to Address Wicked Problems

On Tuesday, May 13, the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis hosted the final Academy meeting of the Socially Sustainable Solutions for Water, Carbon, and Infrastructure Resilience in Oklahoma, or S3OK, project. Funded by the National Science Foundation through the EPSCoR program, the event brought together academic researchers and statewide practitioners for a forward-looking capstone event in Oklahoma City.


Campus & Community
May 20, 2025

OU Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships Recognizes 2025 Research and Creative Activity Awards Winners

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships recognized faculty recipients of the awards for excellence in campus-wide research and creative activities, as well as eight recipients of active early career awards, 25 project teams that earned $1 million or more in extramural funding and nine recipients of patents at a ceremony on May 16.


May 19, 2025

Six Multidisciplinary Projects Receive Seed Funding Grants

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.


Campus & Community
May 14, 2025

University of Oklahoma Names Matthew Wade Hulver Vice President for Research and Partnerships

The University of Oklahoma announced today Matthew Wade Hulver, Ph.D., will become the first universitywide vice president for research and partnerships, effective June 1, pending OU Board of Regents’ approval. This new role integrates the university’s research enterprise across campuses to accelerate growth and increase the university’s impact.


Research
May 13, 2025

The Hidden Physics Behind Dark Matter and the Multiverse

Beneath the visible fabric of our universe lies a world of unanswered questions, and one theory might tie them all together. Supersymmetry, an extension of particle physics, could explain both the elusive nature of dark matter and the possibility of a multiverse. At the forefront of this research is University of Oklahoma physicist Howard Baer, who has spent decades exploring how these invisible forces may unlock the next level of physics.


Research
May 12, 2025

OU Researchers Improve Stability, Efficiency of Electrochemical Devices Important to Sustainable Energy Production

Researchers from the University of Oklahoma have made significant breakthroughs in a promising technology for efficient energy conversion and chemical processing. Two recent studies involving protonic ceramic electrochemical cells, called PCECs, address significant challenges in electrochemical manufacturing and efficiency.


Research
May 07, 2025

University of Oklahoma Expands Partnership with Peruvian Research Hub for Sustainable Development

The University of Oklahoma and the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín of Arequipa, Peru, have advanced their collaborative commitment to solving urgent environmental and human health challenges with the next phase of the Arequipa Global Change and Human Health Institute.


Research
May 07, 2025

OU Professor Named Ecology Society of America Early Career Fellow

Daniel Becker, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Oklahoma, has been named a 2025 Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America for his research focusing on the spread of zoonotic pathogens. The fellowship recognizes outstanding contributions to ecology and a track record of emerging leadership, research excellence and broader impact.


Research
May 06, 2025

Accelerating Drug Discovery with a Single Carbon Atom

A research team from the University of Oklahoma has pioneered a groundbreaking method that could accelerate drug discovery and reduce pharmaceutical development costs. Their work, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, introduces a safe, sustainable way to insert a single carbon atom into drug molecules at room temperature.


Research
May 05, 2025

Two OU Researchers Elected to Prestigious National Academy of Sciences

Two University of Oklahoma researchers, Rodney Tweten, Ph.D., and Jizhong “Joe” Zhou, Ph.D., have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive.


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