NEWS
September 08, 2026
The University of Oklahoma is experiencing a period of transformation few institutions in higher education can match – but OU President Joseph Harroz Jr. says the university’s progress is less a finish line than a foundation for what comes next.
Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, said the deal ended the Kurdish hope of retaining a large measure of autonomy and would benefit Turkey.
While optimism is the belief that the future will be better, hope is the belief “that we have the power to make it so,” said Chan Hellman, the director of The Hope Research Center at the University of Oklahoma.
“Cremation is very rare among ancient and modern hunter-gatherers, at least partially because pyres require a huge amount of labor, time, and fuel to transform a body into fragmented and calcined bone and ash,” said lead author Jessica Cerezo-Román.
These sorts of studies, combining historical sources with climate records, can help researchers better understand what drives the emergence and transmission of disease, says Kyle Harper, a historian at the University of Oklahoma.
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August 31, 2026
The OU family returned to campus for the first week of classes, bringing new energy and excitement to the start of the University of Oklahoma’s fall 2026 semester.
August 24, 2026
OU’s Class of 2030 celebrated the start of their Sooner journey at Class Kickoff, coming together to mark the beginning of their first year at the University of Oklahoma.
August 24, 2026
New Sooners kicked off their OU experience at Camp Crimson 2026, building friendships, discovering campus traditions and getting their first taste of life at the University of Oklahoma.
