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Capitalizing on the popularity of the craft brewing phenomenon to teach science, Oklahoma State University is offering an interactive online learning course this fall to explain microbiology through the practical application of micro brewing.

Oklahoma State University associate professor of integrative biology Kristen Baum and assistant professor of integrative biology Monica Pape? will receive funds from a $5.5 million U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service program to help protect imperiled species.  Baum and Pape? will collaborate with the University of Texas at Austin’s Shalene Jha on a 3-year project focusing on pollinator habitat restoration in Oklahoma and Texas grasslands. 

Riley E. Dunlap, Regents Professor of Sociology and Dresser Professor, has been elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association (SRA).  The SRA is an honorary association created in 1936 to recognize and promote excellence in sociological research. It is comprised of more than 400 leading members of the sociological research community.

An Oklahoma State University scientist studying the effects of abnormally expressed imprinted genes on embryonic development and maternal behavior has been awarded a four-year, $720,000 National Science Foundation grant. The award will fund the investigation of an area of genomic research that has yet to be explored, said Polly Campbell, assistant professor in OSU’s Department of Integrative Biology and the project’s lead investigator.

Oklahoma State University Regents Professor of Sociology and Dresser Professor Riley Dunlap has been appointed to a new federal committee for climate change assessment. 

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Oklahoma State University associate professor of plant biology Dr. Andrew Doust a research grant in excess of $400,000 to explore the genetics of how wild grasses disperse their seeds, why domesticated cereals (like rice and maize) have lost that ability, and how that information might be used to improve agricultural efficiency. 

The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) named Dr. Estella Atekwana, regent’s professor and head of the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University, as a recipient of its Outstanding Educator Award.

A trio of Integrative Biology students swept the top student platform and poster presentation prizes at the 2016 annual conference of the Ozark Prairie chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).  

Oklahoma State University professor of chemistry Jeffery L. White was recently awarded a three-year grant in excess of $400,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue his work in polymer science.  This is the fifth time the NSF has backed White’s research, giving him continuous funding since 2002.