Science and Technology

Ashley Stephens, an ATF Senior Special Agent in the Tulsa Field Office with Certified Fire Investigator and Certified Explosives Specialist training, graduated from OSU-CHS with a Master of Forensic Sciences degree in 2019 after the university and the ATF partnered to provide graduate level training to agents who have specialized in arson or explosives.

In what the Cowboy family hopes is an excellent sign for the upcoming OSU vs. OU football game, Oklahoma State University beat the University of Oklahoma 803 to 740 in life-saving blood donations during the annual Bedlam Blood Battle.

The start of Fall semester brought some unexpected happy news for Dr. Matthew Cabeen of OSU’s Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics: the National Institutes of Health accepted his grant proposal and awarded his research team $1.7 million over five years to study how a bacterium senses and responds to stress.

Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes in September as wildfires tore across the West Coast. Among them were Department of Plant Biology, Ecology and Evolution emeritus professor Dr. Michael Palmer and his wife, former OSU professor Dr. Suzanne McAlister.

Risking personal safety to help others, Oklahoma State University’s health care professionals have been hard at work during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Oklahoma State University alumna and Cherokee Nation citizen Dr. Cara Cowan Watts will be recognized Saturday with the Ely S. Parker Award, the highest honor awarded by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.