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Oklahoma State University postdoctoral fellow receives NASA funded grant

Ali Ettehadi, a postdoctoral fellow and researcher in petroleum engineering at Oklahoma State University’s School of Chemical Engineering, recently received approximately $30,000 as a NASA EPSCoR Research Initiation Grant.
Image of outer space representing Dr. Ettehadi's research.
OSU physicists’ radiation detector installed aboard International Space Station

Fri, Dec 15, 2023

Dr. Eric Benton and Ph.D. student Tristen Lee from Oklahoma State University’s Department of Physics within the College of Arts and Sciences have been waiting years for the news they received in November: their radiation detector was safely installed on the International Space Station and had begun transmitting large batches of data back to Earth.

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Boeing partners with Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and OSU to advance STEM education from space

Fri, Nov 17, 2023

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma heirloom seeds will fly to the International Space Station as part of a partnership with Boeing. The seeds will be planted and studied upon their return by Native American youth at a CNO boarding school and incorporated into a middle school STEM curriculum at Oklahoma State University.

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OSU researchers monitor hypersonic shockwaves as part of NASA OSIRIS-REx mission

Mon, Sep 25, 2023

As NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft completed its 1.2-billion-mile journey home and sent its sample return capsule back to Earth, a team of Oklahoma State University researchers was waiting and listening.

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Oklahoma State University, partners take Oklahoma’s aerospace and aviation leadership to next level

Fri, Jun 30, 2023

Friday, Oklahoma State University and partners — including Tulsa Innovation Labs and the Osage Nation — celebrated a ribbon-cutting at the LaunchPad Center for Advanced Air Mobility at OSU-Tulsa’s Helmerich Research Center (HRC).

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Written in the Stars: NASA officer successfully defends aviation and space education doctoral dissertation

Thu, Apr 27, 2023

As NASA’s chief health and medical officer and a student at Oklahoma State University, Dr. J.D. Polk aims to provide the next generation with information critical to the field of spaceflight. Despite already being triple board-certified as an osteopathic doctor, an emergency medical doctor and a flight surgeon specializing in aerospace medicine, Polk decided to add another set of credentials to his title.

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Three Space Cowboys teams from CEAT were selected for Phase II of the NASA Micro-g NExT challenge

Mon, Dec 19, 2022

Three teams of undergraduate students in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology (CEAT) were selected to participate in Phase II of the 2023 cohort of the NASA Micro-g NExT challenge, marking CEAT’s largest number of teams selected in a single year ever.

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