Science and Technology

The Untold History of the Horse in the American Plains

Trustworthy Research, Technology Key to Artificial Intelligence Institute’s Success

In 2020, University of Oklahoma engineer Amy McGovern, Ph.D., applied for a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography. In May of that same year, she was notified that the University of Oklahoma was awarded the grant and that she would be named its director.

The History of Science Collection’s Mary Anning Exhibit Attracts Scholars to the Work of a Pioneering Woman in Paleontology

The University of Oklahoma’s History of Science Collection has held thousands of historical pieces and literature since its inception in 1949. To step onto the fifth floor of Bizzell Library is to step into the intersection of history, science and mathematics. Thanks to a gift from geologist and OU alumni Everette Lee DeGolyer, the History of Science Collection is known as one of the more complete collections of multidisciplinary research in the country with pieces dating to as far back as the second century B.C.E.