March 26, 2025
Two proposals have been selected for funding through the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships’ Strategic Equipment Investment Program. Equipment purchased under this program is expected to significantly advance research and creative activities across the university.
March 24, 2025
The University of Oklahoma has named Heather Bedle, Ph.D., as the inaugural director of its Sustainable Energy Systems program, a multidisciplinary program designed to equip students with the knowledge needed to address the challenges of a dynamic energy landscape.
University of Oklahoma Anthropology Professor Paul Spicer has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society.
Two proposals have been selected for funding through the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships’ Strategic Equipment Investment Program. Equipment purchased under this program is expected to significantly advance research and creative activities across the university.
OU is the newest member of the Mississippi State University-led Alliance for Systems Safety of UAS through Research Excellence, an elite group of universities working on the safe integration of unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, into the national airspace.
Richard Veras, a professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award to develop such an innovation by creating more efficient infrastructure for the computation of sparse and irregular data.
Newly published research from the University of Oklahoma proves that adding a covering to quantum light sources called a colloidal quantum dot can cause them to shine without faltering, opening the door to new, affordable quantum possibilities.
David Ebert, director of OU’s Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC) and associate vice president for research and partnerships, has been selected as the interim chief AI officer, a new position created to implement AI to drive innovation in education, research and operations.
A new study published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones. The study could lead to more accurate weather and climate models and better forecasting of Arctic cyclones.
Wei R. Chen, Ph.D., Stephenson Endowed Chair, Professor, and Interim Director of the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, recently chaired an international conference, “Biophotonics and Immune Responses XX”, at the Photonics West Symposium sponsored by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
Naveen Kumar, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business, has co-authored a study emphasizing the urgent need to address these biases by developing and deploying ethical, explainable AI. This includes methods and policies that ensure fairness and transparency and reduce stereotypes and discrimination in LLM applications.
Rui Zhu, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program award to uncover the mechanisms behind cardiac arrhythmias.
