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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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OSU adds expert in military and athletics musculoskeletal health

Wed, Sep 03, 2025

When it comes to understanding how the body performs under extreme physical demands, Dr. Matthew Bird, Ph.D., CSCS, brings both research expertise and hands-on experience. Bird, who specializes in military and athletic musculoskeletal health and human performance optimization, joins Oklahoma State University as a performance scientist coordinator in the Human Performance and Nutrition Research Institute.

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OSU launches Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Wed, Sep 03, 2025

Oklahoma State University has created its first Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, a new resource dedicated to supporting postdoctoral researchers and the faculty members who mentor them.

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Dr. Joshua Li's research studies rural readiness for autonomous vehicles

Tue, Sep 02, 2025

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at Oklahoma State University has made a name for itself when it comes to research into vehicle transportation and safety.

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College of Veterinary Medicine celebrates record-breaking success of 2025 Summer Research Training Program

Wed, Aug 27, 2025

Oklahoma State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine has officially wrapped up its 2025 Summer Research Training Program, marking one of the most successful years in the program’s history.

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OSU research explores sustainability of cattle grazing in Kansas wheat–sorghum systems

Tue, Aug 26, 2025

Dr. Mary Foltz, assistant professor for the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is working with her master’s student Allie Thomas to find an alternative to traditional cattle feeding processes that could lessen the carbon footprint and water footprint that standard cattle feedlots produce.

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Sharda receives AMCIS 2025 Outstanding Conference Service Leadership Award

Mon, Aug 25, 2025

Dr. Ramesh Sharda, a Regents Professor in the Spears School of Business, won an AMCIS Outstanding Conference Service Leadership Award in August. Sharda devotes significant time to professional organizations and conferences that support careers in management science and information systems.

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From vision to voltage: ECE researcher leads trustworthy AI-driven energy revolution

Thu, Aug 21, 2025

Researchers in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, led by Jack H. Graham Endowed Fellow of Engineering and Assistant Professor Dr. Ying Zhang, are involved in a three-year project through the Hamm Institute to help the energy sector meet its security needs for future energy networks.  

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Physics and Math secure $3M NSF grant to train next-gen quantum and AI workforce

Thu, Aug 21, 2025

Professors from Oklahoma State University’s Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics received a $3 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship award to launch the Accelerating Transdisciplinary Training of an Oklahoma Workforce for the Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Revolution program.

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OSU wins bid to host International Physicists’ Tournament in 2026

Mon, Aug 18, 2025

For the first time in its history, the International Physicists’ Tournament will be hosted in the United States — at Oklahoma State University. In May 2026, around 200 faculty and students from 21 universities in Europe, South and Central America, Africa and Asia will come to Stillwater to compete in the “World Cup of undergraduate physics research,” said Dr. Flera Rizatdinova, head of the OSU Department of Physics.

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Geology faculty, students set sail on NSF-funded research expedition to Labrador Sea

Fri, Aug 15, 2025

Two faculty members and two graduate students from Oklahoma State University’s Boone Pickens School of Geology recently returned from a 5-week international research expedition aboard the R/V Roger Revelle, a research vessel operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From June to July, the OSU team of Dr. Ashley Burkett, Dr. Natascha Riedinger, Amanda Harding and Monica Hinson joined 29 scientists from 12 institutions to collect sediment and seawater samples across the Labrador Sea. The expedition was part of a National Science Foundation-funded project “A Porewater Perspective on Benthic Sources of Neodymium to the North Atlantic” and focused on how seawater chemistry is both preserved in and influenced by seafloor sediments.

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OSU researcher to develop ultralow-cost SWIR sensor technology 

Fri, Aug 15, 2025

Dr. Do Young Kim, associate professor of materials science and engineering, for the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, has received a subaward from Ghost Display Technologies, LLC for a Department of Energy STTR Phase I grant to develop a groundbreaking shortwave infrared (SWIR) sensor that could revolutionize imaging technologies across industries.

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