Multispectral Laboratories to receive Creativity Award

Monday, March 8, 2010

The Journal Record will honor the Oklahoma State University Multispectral Laboratories with this year’s Creativity Award at the newspaper’s Innovator of the Year event on April 13 at the Skirvin Hilton in Oklahoma City.

“We appreciate the acknowledgement that OSU-UML is uniquely positioned as a national resource to handle some of the most important research of our time while advancing Oklahoma’s economy,” said Stephen McKeever, OSU’s Vice President for research and technology transfer and executive director of the laboratories.

The OSU-UML, which is located in Ponca City, is focused on sensor technology, including the test, evaluation and implementation of defense, homeland security, energy, and intelligence systems, according to McKeever, who has predicted the center will “change the landscape of sensor technology.”

The laboratories are wholly owned by OSU and operated by Triton Scientific LLC with essential support from the Ponca City Development Authority and ConcoPhillips. An Oklahoma business, OSU-UML brings researchers together with government and industry to rapidly and efficiently advance new technologies and capabilities to the end user. 

OSU-UML also won the 2007 International Economic Development Council’s award for the most innovative partnership in economic development in the nation.