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'Stranger Things' associated with public awareness of rare disorder

Fri, Feb 21, 2020

For Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine student Austin Johnson, watching an episode of “Stranger Things” on Netflix while studying led to an eye-opening research opportunity.

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Watson, four other female scientists produce comprehensive analysis of sunflower family

Tue, Feb 11, 2020

Linda Watson, an Oklahoma State University professor in the Department of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, is one of five female scientists who have produced a comprehensive analysis of genomic-scale data to understand the historical biogeography of the Asteraceae, also known as the sunflower or daisy family. Watson, president of the Botanical Society of America, collaborated with researchers from the University of Memphis and the Smithsonian Institution to publish “A fully resolved backbone phylogeny reveals numerous dispersals and explosive diversifications throughout the history of Asteraceae” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

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Register now for OSU’s 2020 Pecan Management Course

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

Those interested in learning more about the pecan industry can enroll now in the 2020 Pecan Management Course.

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Professor’s passion for audiology, speech-language pathology spans continents

Tue, Feb 04, 2020

For Dr. Sabiha Parveen, it wasn’t so much a question of what she’d study, but rather how she’d go about it. So after graduating from the University of Calcutta in her home country of India and working for a year in audiology and speech-language pathology, she headed to Bowling Green State University in Ohio for postgraduate work. Although Parveen had initially wanted to focus her studies on aphasia and stroke, her mentor presented another option: Parkinson’s disease.

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BCBSOK awards grant to OSU Medicine for addiction, pain management research

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma (BCBSOK) has awarded a community health investment grant of $250,000 to Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Addiction Medicine Specialty Clinic to address the public health concerns of addiction and mental health in Oklahoma by improving access to behavioral health care.

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Third-Year OSU Veterinary Student Listed as First Author in Scientific Publication

Tue, Jan 28, 2020

Rachel Maranville of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is doing more than earning her DVM degree at Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Maranville recently completed a research project under the guidance of associate professor of zoological medicine Dr. Nicola Di Girolamo, and her hard work is about to pay off. Just a third year veterinary student, Maranville will be listed as the first author when the research is published in JAVMA, the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

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OCEAN brings FOSSIL, experts and collaboration to OSU

Wed, Jan 22, 2020

Oklahoma State University created the Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis, or OCEAN, which hosts an annual conference called the Flyover State Scientists Integrating Evolution, or FOSSIL. OCEAN’s critical mass of social science researchers makes it one of fewer than five such centers in the entire U.S. where students receive training in and exposure to evolutionary approaches to cognition and behavior.

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Biomedical Sciences alumna building research career

Thu, Jan 16, 2020

OSU-CHS alumna Leandra Figueroa-Hall's interest in science was sparked in high school, continued in college and into graduate school at OSU Center for Health Sciences

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Transformational gift from alumni leads to new name for OSU’s agriculture college

Wed, Jan 15, 2020

Oklahoma State University and alumni Kayleen and Larry Ferguson announced a $50 million gift from the Ferguson Family Foundation that will transform the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources in a variety of ways, including a new name. Pending approval next week from the Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents, the college will be renamed the Ferguson College of Agriculture in recognition of the gift, which is among the largest in OSU’s nearly 130-year history.

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OSU's New Product Development Center's collaboration with Aircraft Towing Systems leads to protype test launch in spring

Thu, Jan 09, 2020

Aircraft Towing Systems World Wide LLC. recently broke ground at the Ardmore Airpark in Ardmore, Oklahoma, as part of its strategic plan to install an innovative transport-system prototype designed to convey aircraft to and from airport gates and onto runways and back without the use of a jet’s main engines.

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Vet Med Faces of Research: Dr. Jared Taylor

Mon, Jan 06, 2020

At Oklahoma State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine researchers have a 60-plus year history of looking at bovine respiratory disease or what’s commonly called BRD. Jared Taylor, DVM, MPH, Ph.D., DACVIM, associate professor in the department of veterinary pathobiology, continues that legacy through his research.

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Researchers learn more about teenage T.rex

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

Without a doubt, Tyrannosaurus rex is the most famous dinosaur in the world. The 40-foot-long predator with bone crushing teeth inside a 5-foot long head are the stuff of legend. Now, a look within the bones of two mid-sized, immature T. rex allow scientists to learn about the tyrant king’s terrible teens as well.

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