June Abbas, Ph.D is the co-lead author of a study on how parents make digital media decisions for their children. She and her collaborators have offered nuanced guidance to families and experts on how resources like the Internet and television can be managed effectively.
The University of Oklahoma has received an $11.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Oklahoma Center of ImmunoEngineering, a new research center designed to accelerate the study and treatment of diseases rooted in the immune system, led by principal investigators Wei Chen, Ph.D., and Chongle Pan, Ph.D.
The University of Oklahoma announced today the students named to its spring 2026 honor roll, a distinction given to those who achieve the highest academic standards. A total of 12,083 students were named to the spring 2026 honor roll. Of these students, 5,004 were named to the President’s Honor Roll for earning an “A” grade in all their courses.
The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation recently named Arianna Dambold and Aaron Lim as members of its 2026 class of Astronaut Scholars. The prestigious awards are given to junior and senior-year college students pursuing degrees in STEM and aims to support the next generation of explorers and innovators.
Zermarie Deacon, Ph.D., and Deonnie Moodie, Ph.D., have each been named a 2026-2027 Fulbright U.S. Scholar by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. These prestigious fellowships support research and development opportunities abroad.
Proposed three-year bachelor’s degree programs are moving forward for review through the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education framework, enabling the University of Oklahoma to offer more efficient and affordable degree options aligned with state workforce needs.
University of Oklahoma undergraduate researchers earned two of the highest honors at the 31st annual Research Day at the Capitol, a statewide competition highlighting top undergraduate research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Georgia Kosmopoulou has received a Fulbright Specialist Award to collaborate with the School of Economics at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín to strengthen research culture and expand interdisciplinary collaboration in economics.
University of Oklahoma graduate Lucy Coleman has been selected for the National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, an elite international doctoral training program that partners the NIH with the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge to prepare future leaders in biomedical research.
Entrepreneurship and engineering students from the University of Oklahoma have helped work on ensuring a clean Oklahoma River for the 2028 Summer Olympics. Their collaboration is thanks to a project designed by faculty at OU's Price College of Business and Gallogly College of Engineering.
A University of Oklahoma data scientist has created a free research tool to facilitate this process. Called ECHO – Evaluation of Chat, Human Behavior, and Outcomes – the open source, low-code platform enables scholars to design and run behavioral experiments involving conversational AI, Web search and human-AI interaction.
Three students at the University of Oklahoma have been awarded nationally competitive scholarships, including two Fulbright recipients and one Gilman awardee.
The Shyam Dev Patwardhan Department of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma is outperforming national benchmarks for doctoral student success, according to newly released 2026 data from the Academic Placement Data and Analysis project.
Kamal Mahatara experienced deep-rooted poverty growing up in Nepal. Overcoming the odds, the University of Oklahoma student is earning his Bachelor of Science in Biology and Community Health and plans to help low-resource communities.
One hundred and sixty-six University of Oklahoma undergraduate students eligible to participate in graduation ceremonies maintained a perfect 4.0 grade-point average throughout their academic program at OU. Of the total, 88 reside in Oklahoma.
Five current and former students from the University of Oklahoma have received prestigious fellowships, in recognition of their exceptional potential for STEM leadership.
The Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma has named Ryan Peters as Assistant Dean for Student Success and Advising. He begins his new role immediately.
The Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma has named Dr. J.P. Masly as its inaugural Associate Dean for Infrastructure and Operations, pending approval by the OU Board of Regents. He is expected to begin his new role May 16, 2026.
A new University of Oklahoma study — the first of its kind conducted in a real-world field setting over more than a decade — finds that sustained warming significantly increases the abundance, diversity and mobility of antibiotic resistance genes in soil.
Aaron Lim, a third-year student pursuing a chemical biosciences degree, is one of just a few hundred students nationwide to receive a 2026 Goldwater Scholarship, presented to undergraduates pursuing careers in science, engineering and mathematics.
Julie Dawkins was awarded the prestigious Carl Albert Award at the 2024 Impact Awards Celebration for the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, recognizing Julie's exceptional achievements, leadership, and contributions to both academic and community spheres.
The OU Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma held its annual Awards Lunch on Thursday, April 25th, at the Noun Hotel. The event, now named the Impact Awards Luncheon (formerly Kaleidoscope), celebrates the significant contributions of outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni to the university community.
On February 13, 2024 Tom W. Boyd, Ph.D., 90, passed away in his home in Norman, Oklahoma after a lengthy illness. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he moved to Oklahoma in 1956 to begin his undergraduate education at Bethany Nazarene College (now SNU). He completed his MA in Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma in 1962, after serving as a graduate assistant in that program. After a year at Yale University, Boyd graduated with his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Philosophy of Religion in 1973. He was granted an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma in 2013.
