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Advancing Coronavirus Research: Dr. Xufang Deng’s mission to protect human and animal health

When the SARS outbreak shut down his college campus in China over twenty years ago, Dr. Xufang Deng found himself intrigued — not only by the disruption the virus caused, but by the astonishing power of a microscopic pathogen.
Advancing Coronavirus Research: Dr. Xufang Deng’s mission to protect human and animal health
Advancing Coronavirus Research: Dr. Xufang Deng’s mission to protect human and animal health

Thu, Nov 6, 2025

When the SARS outbreak shut down his college campus in China over twenty years ago, Dr. Xufang Deng found himself intrigued — not only by the disruption the virus caused, but by the astonishing power of a microscopic pathogen.

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CAS faculty receive NSF grant for multidisciplinary COVID-19 and pandemic research

Thu, Aug 31, 2023

Six Oklahoma State University professors from a variety of backgrounds are combining their talents to research stopping future pandemics. Faculty members from OSU's College of Arts and Sciences were recently awarded a $500,000 National Science

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Vet Med graduate student earns prestigious fellowship

Fri, Oct 21, 2022

Dr. Miruthula Tamil Selvan was awarded the Otto S. Cox Fellowship in Genetics Research. The Cox Fellowship supports outstanding OSU graduate students with a proven record of research in genetics from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary program.

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IMLS grant supports library pandemic reflections project

Thu, Dec 16, 2021

The Oklahoma State University Library recently received a federal award for nearly $50,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' American Rescue Plan grant program. The grant will fund the Library's oral history project titled

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CAS hires six with diverse expertise in pandemic research

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

The first three hires began this fall. They are Tao Hu, Juwon Hwang and Rebecca Kaplan. In January, CAS will bring in two more new hires. And the last piece of this faculty puzzle will arrive at OSU in August 2022.

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Facing COVID unknowns, CAS finds order, innovation and progress in meeting challenges

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

When OSU initially shifted its classes online for two weeks following 2020's spring break, most thought things with the still-new coronavirus would resolve and in-person classes would resume in plenty of time for finals. Instead, courses remained

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OSU analytics team creates system to track COVID cases, keep everyone notified

Mon, Sep 20, 2021

IRA collaborated with OSU's new office devoted to customer relationship management (CRM) to create a system that would alert faculty, staff and students about positive cases and what next steps were.

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President Shrum addresses campus health, Big 12 expansion

Fri, Sep 10, 2021

Cowboy family, As we embrace the fall semester, I want to commend all of you for doing your part to help protect our campus. Even though we see cases decline around campus and in Stillwater, we must remain vigilant in our public health measures to

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OSU physicians explain vaccine science

Wed, Sep 8, 2021

Physicians from the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences discuss the COVID vaccine's mRNA technology and how it works in the human body.

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OSU launches campaign to Mask Up around campus

Wed, Sep 1, 2021

After a surge in positive cases following the first week of school, Oklahoma State University issued a guidance to all students, faculty and staff that masks were to be expected. With that, OSU and the Office of Academic Affairs are launching a

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