2020

January

• Cancer Researcher Receives OU’s First National Institutes of Health MERIT (R37) Award to Develop Precision Radiation Delivery Tool
• University of Oklahoma Research Team Helps Weather-Weary Ag Industry 
• OU Launches $9 Million Research Collaboration with Peruvian University
• U.S. HUPO Honors OU Researcher with New Investigator Award
• Weather Radar Records Drastic Drop in Mayfly Populations
• OU Study Finds the Fingerprint of Paddy Rice in Atmospheric Methane Concentration Dynamics

February

• OU Researchers Awarded NASA Grant to Study Emerging Disease Threats, Including the New Coronavirus
• A Sub-Neptune Sized Planet Validated with the Habitable-Zone Planet Finder

March

• Why Taller Grass Can Be Bad News For Grasshoppers
• Unprecedented Preservation of Fossil Feces from the La Brea Tar Pits: A 50,000-year-old Snapshot of Los Angeles Trapped in Asphalt
• COVID-19-Related Rapid Response Research Seed Grant call for proposals due April 6
• In New Book, OU Professor Presents New Theory on LGBTQ Stigma

April

• COVID-19 Testing Kits Now Available Due to Public-Private Partnership
• OU Researchers to Study the Impact of False Information on the Public’s Response to COVID-19
• Multidisciplinary OU Team Unites to Prototype, Test and Validate Essential Equipment Designs
• OU Researchers Receive Internal Funding to Study Impacts of COVID-19
• Data Science and Visualization Expert Joins OU
• Physicists Develop Approach to Increase Performance of Solar Energy
• Researchers awarded NASA grant to improve forecasting
• Essential Equipment Prototyped and Manufactured at OU Donated to OU Medicine

May

• OU Pilots Testing Program for Research Personnel Returning to Campus
• Two Graduate Students Receive NSF Fellowship
• OU Physicists Awarded Department of Defense Research Grant to Investigate Applications of Einstein’s “Spooky Action at a Distance”
• Strategic Research Advisory Board Discusses Research Goals, Outlook in May Meeting

June

• Fighting Malaria with Moldy Cereal
• Oklahoma Research Team Receives $20 Million National Science Foundation Grant
• OU Calls for Proposals to Study Inequities in Academic Research, Creative Activities
• Chelsea Julian receives OU Distinguished Performance Award
• The Measles Virus May Be Older Than Previously Believed
• OU Researcher Receives Department of Energy Early Career Award
• Julian Sabisch Joins the Samuel Roberts Noble Microscopy Laboratory

July

• Interim Executive Director of the Office of Research Services Named
• OU Researcher Receives Department of Defense Young Faculty Award
• OU Shatters Record for Sponsored Research
• OC-ALC teams up with OU on Educational Partnership Agreement
• OU Researchers to Study Impacts of Inequities in Research, Creative Activities
• Developing Sustainable Solutions to Oklahoma’s ‘Wicked’ Challenges
• OU AG&S Faculty, Researchers, and Student Leaders earn AMS Honors
• OU Introduces New Data Science Institute for Societal Challenges

August

• New OU Research Could Inform Treatment of COVID-19
• OU Vice President for Research and Partnerships to Join Defense Science Board
• New OU Research Could Inform Understanding of Storm Formation
• OU Researcher Receives Part of $28 Million Grant to Increase Geothermal Energy Production in the United States
• OU and OSU Take Off to Support Atmospheric Research
• Effectiveness of Computing in Modern Biology Workshops for Broadening Participation in STEM
• OU SMART Radar Team to Intercept Hurricane Laura
• OU Receives $20 Million Grant to Lead Inaugural National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence Institute
• OU Researchers Travel to the Gulf of Mexico to Intercept Hurricane Laura
• Researchers Receive $3 Million National Science Foundation Grant

September

• Tracking COVID-19 on Campus Through Sewage Surveillance
  
• Improving Understanding of Climate Change Through Cloud Formation
• OU Forms Community-Led Think Tank
• OU Researchers Collect Data From Hurricane Sally
• How Do Weather Forecasters Communicate Risk Before, During, and After Extreme Weather Events?
• OU Names Two Senior Associate Vice Presidents for Research, Partnerships
• OU-Led Study Expands Understanding of Ecological Factors Driving Microbial Community Assembly in Response to Warming
• OU Researchers Investigate the Equity of Faculty Evaluations
• OU Research uses Artificial Intelligence to Predict Preeclampsia Risk
• OU-Led Study Aims to Use Microbial Information to Inform Global Climate Change Models

October

• OU and NOAA Team Up to Provide Radar Coverage During Hurricane Delta
• OU Researchers Conduct First Drone-Based Weather Observations At Max Westheimer Airport
• Picture A Scientist Screening, Discussion Series
• OU Experts Reflect on 2020 Nobel Prize Recipients for Chemistry, Physics

November

• Drones Support OU Weather Research
• OU Researchers Develop 3D Printed Face Masks in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
• $7.4 Million U.S. Navy Grant to Make OU Home to the Nation’s Largest University-Based Near-Field Scanner for Antenna Measurements
• OU Researchers Create COVID-19 Models for Rural Areas
• Data Science Institute for Societal Challenges Names Two Associate Research Directors
• OU Researchers Present Insights in the Search for New Antibiotics

December

• New Study Finds OU Research Well Cited, Impactful
• Michael Purcell named Executive Director of ORS and Associate Vice President for Research and Partnerships
• OU Research Explores the Relationship Between Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• OU Graduate Becomes Among First Space Force Guardians