In celebration of Black History Month, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships is recognizing a few of the exceptional researchers who are making a difference at OU and beyond.
Kalenda Eaton, Ph.D., associate professor in the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies, Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, and director of Oklahoma Research for the Black Homesteader Project. Her research efforts are working to recover, reevaluate and reclaim the histories of rural African Americans in the Oklahoma Territory pre-statehood and beyond.
Anae I. Bain, Ph.D., is a medicinal chemist at Eli Lilly and Company. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2022 with a doctorate in organic chemistry. She is also the 2022 winner of OU’s Three Minute Thesis competition.
Emuobosa Patience Ojoboh is a second-year graduate student working toward a dual degree in geology and data analytics. She is an avid volunteer, is the vice president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, OU chapter, and the fundraising chair for the Society of Women in Engineering.
