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Impact
June 01, 2026

OU Positioned to Become First Public Higher Ed Institution in Oklahoma to offer three-year bachelor’s degree programs

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.


Campus & Community
May 18, 2026

Interdisciplinary OU Project Offers Clean River Solutions Ahead of Olympics

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.


Research
November 21, 2025

Two OU Researchers Ranked Among World’s Top Sociology Scholars

Two University of Oklahoma faculty in the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences have been ranked by analytics site ScholarGPS as among the world’s most productive and impactful sociologists over the past five years.


Impact
September 26, 2024

The Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation Commits $4.5 Million to Elevate OU’s Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work

The Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma has received a transformative $4.5 million gift from The Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation. This significant investment will help establish a doctorate-level program and position the school – named for the Zarrows due to their extraordinary and continued generosity – among the top 25 schools of social work in the nation.


Research
September 09, 2024

Two OU Faculty Top ScholarGPS Rankings

Two faculty members are currently the only University of Oklahoma researchers to be globally ranked among the top 10 Social Sciences scholars based on data from the past five years gathered by ScholarGPS.


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Research
June 18, 2026

OU Study on Children’s Digital Media Use Named Top-Viewed Wiley Article

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.


Research
June 11, 2026

OU Receives $11.5 Million NIH Award to Establish Statewide Immunoengineering Research Center

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.


Campus & Community
June 10, 2026

More Than 12,000 Students Named to OU’s Spring 2026 Honor Roll

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.