The University of Oklahoma is adding a new materials science and engineering (MSE) doctoral program, welcoming its first cohort of students in fall 2025.
Kasun Gunasooriya, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the University of Oklahoma School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, has received a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities. He was selected for his research on converting nitrate captured during the water purification process into ammonia, reducing water pollutants while generating an important fertilizer for global agriculture.
Bin Wang, a professor in the School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, has received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
U.S. News and World Report ranked the University of Oklahoma 106th among the best schools for engineering graduate programs, climbing four spots from 110th last year.
The 2024 OU Sustainability Forum focused on identifying ways in which community, industry and academia can collaborate to overcome the current technological, socioeconomic and scientific hurdles at the intersection between energy and materials science.
The University of Oklahoma is among the multi-institutional team led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to accelerate inertial fusion energy science and technology. The initiative, “Inertial Fusion Energy Science and Technology Accelerated Research for Fusion Innovation and Reactor Engineering hub,” or IFE STARFIRE, is one of three inertial fusion energy hubs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. OU is leading the workforce development and inertial fusion energy ecosystem stewardship focus for the IFE STARFIRE hub.
Michele Galizia, a President’s Associates Presidential Professor in the School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, is leading a research team that recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy that will develop improved polymer membranes to advance molecular separation and related materials science.
Representatives from the University of Oklahoma hosted a celebration of a new initiative, “GEAR UP for LIFE,” yesterday. The program is a partnership between OU’s K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal and 28 under-resourced schools across 23 primarily rural school districts in Oklahoma to help students and their families prepare for college and workforce training.
The Strategic Equipment Investment Program, provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships, has funded five proposals to purchase equipment expected to advance research and creative activities at the University of Oklahoma.
Members of the University of Oklahoma’s Carbon-Free H2 Production and Storage project, known as CHEPS, will receive a nearly $3.6 million Growing Convergence Research grant over five years from the National Science Foundation to co-develop and deploy socially just technologies related to the hydrogen energy transition in Oklahoma’s rural and Tribal communities.
Farid Talebnia Rowshan, Ph.D., has joined the University of Oklahoma as an assistant professor in the School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering and as the inaugural director of the OU Bioprocessing Core Facility.
University of Oklahoma engineering researcher Reza Foudazi, Ph.D., has been selected to receive a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense under the Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or DEPSCoR. The highly competitive grant was awarded to only 28 academic teams nationwide.
OU Engineering has welcomed 14 new faculty members for the 2023-24 academic year. This marks a milestone in the college's growth journey, with faculty numbers increasing from just over 100 in 2017 to 175 in 2023. OU Engineering is committed to expanding its faculty ranks, aiming for over 200 faculty members by the 2025-26 academic year, says OU Engineering Dean John Klier. To achieve this goal, the college has initiated more than 20 faculty searches.
For the first time in one year, three faculty at the University of Oklahoma have received Maximizing Investigators’ Research Awards from the National Institutes of Health.
Eight students hailing from the Gallogly College of Engineering have been chosen as recipients of the summer 2023 Engineering Dissertation Award. The $5,000 award, designed to foster excellence among doctoral students, supports scholars in the final stages of their Ph.D. studies.
OU Engineering wishes well for the retiring educators, and we acknowledge their substantial impact on students and research advancements.
Ten Gallogly College of Engineering students at the University of Oklahoma were selected to receive Engineering Dissertation Awards, a $5,000 award created to encourage doctoral students to graduate with excellence. The award helps scholars near completion of their Ph.D., says Zahed Siddique, the college’s associate dean for research who heads the committee.
