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Biomed PhD student awarded Robberson Summer Dissertation Fellowship for her cancer research

Tue, Sep 16, 2025

Serene Lim, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at OSU Center for Health Sciences, is researching connections between a bacteria found in the mouth and cancer.

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Niblack Research Scholars' Newest Class

Tue, Sep 09, 2025

This year, 13 students are getting the opportunity to advance their careers through the Niblack Research Scholars program. These undergraduates have been selected as scholars for the 2025-26 school year, earning them a $8,000 scholarship to conduct research with faculty across campus.

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Go, no-go: OAIRE's program could streamline weather data collection and consolidation

Tue, Sep 09, 2025

For most, a sudden change in the forecast might mean a forgotten umbrella, but for the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education, it could be catastrophic. As leaders in the unmanned aerial systems universe, weather plays an integral role in the day-to-day operations and success of the OAIRE team. As such, they constantly monitor weather data for numerous reasons, not the least of which is the feasibility of operating UAS at any particular place, date and time.

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New facility to elevate human performance research across OSU

Tue, Sep 09, 2025

The Oklahoma State University Human Performance and Nutrition Research Institute will soon have a new home to conduct groundbreaking discoveries — the Boone Pickens Human Performance Innovation Complex.

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Stride Toward Healing: Groundbreaking foal research sheds light on joint infection treatments

Tue, Sep 09, 2025

Drs. Schoonover and David Wallace, equine surgery resident, conducted a study on the efficacy and safety of concurrent systemic administration and intravenous regional limb perfusion of amikacin in healthy neonatal foals.

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Raising the Grain: OSU Agriculture reinvents wheat for the future

Tue, Sep 09, 2025

In the past 25 years, OSU Ag Research’s wheat breeding program has kept stripe rust and leaf rust at bay in wheat crops with varieties like Gallagher, Smith’s Gold, Green Hammer, OK Corral and Paradox; created durable dual-purpose wheat with varieties like Endurance, Duster, Gallagher and Doublestop CL+; released varieties that offer tolerance to the grassy weed herbicide Imazamox (Doublestop CL+ and Orange Blossom CL+); and discovered an altered version of what is now one of the most important disease-resistant wheat genes in breeding programs across the world. OSU’s wheat team hasn’t stopped there.

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Music education student researches composer representation

Tue, Sep 09, 2025

Katelynn Biggs’ studies primarily focused on prescribed music lists for high school concert bands in the region. The PMLs are what every student in the state plays when they perform at competitions and, therefore, spend hours and hours with the music. As a French horn player, Biggs narrowed the research down to just that instrument.

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Hidden Health Risk: Exercise interventions address overlooked body characteristic

Tue, Sep 09, 2025

Dr. Sam Emerson, associate professor of nutritional sciences, and Dr. Bree Baker, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology, Applied Health and Recreation, are studying the effects of exercise on underlying metabolic dysfunction risk factors.

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Matters of the Heart: OSU undergraduate’s research journey from California dreaming to cardiology breakthroughs

Tue, Sep 09, 2025

When Angelique Robinson transferred to Oklahoma State University from a tiny junior college in rural California, she had no idea she’d end up performing heart surgery on mice. Today, Robinson is working on four active research projects, including a groundbreaking heart regeneration study in neonatal mice under assistant professor Dr. Jiyoung Bae. She was just 19 when Bae, newly arrived on campus, invited Robinson to perform the complex surgeries herself.

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OSU and Texas A&M plan national research center to advance safe energy-related geologic storage

Mon, Sep 08, 2025

Oklahoma State University has joined forces with Texas A&M University to establish the National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Energy-Related Geologic Storage, a new national hub for research on subsurface storage of fluids used or produced for energy activities.  The center invites collaboration with industry partners to ensure research addresses real-world challenges and delivers practical solutions.

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Excellence of Computer and Electrical Engineering highlighted in Fellowships

Fri, Sep 05, 2025

This year, ECE has named Dr. Ying Zhang as the Jack H. Graham Endowed Fellow of Engineering and Dr. John Hu as the Lynn T. Miller Faculty Fellow. Dr. Hamid Pouya is in the second year of being a Distinguished Fellow of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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Tweet Tweet: Biology professor Gilbert co-authors research documenting impact of light pollution on avian activity

Wed, Sep 03, 2025

Around the globe, early birds are trying out the night owl lifestyle due to artificial lights. In a new study published in Science on Aug. 21, “Light pollution prolongs avian activity,” Oklahoma State University’s Dr. Neil Gilbert and Southern Illinois University’s Dr. Brent Pease found that birds in the brightest nighttime environments start singing 18 minutes earlier in the morning and continue 32 minutes later into the evening compared to birds in naturally dark areas.

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