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Engineering and Natural Sciences

News about students, faculty or alumni from the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences

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Monitoring and modeling shelterbelt microclimates and impacts on wheat production

Foysal Hasan, a graduate student in Department of Geosciences at the University…

TU research licensed by 46VC advancing cancer testing, therapeutics

FortySix Venture Capital LLC and The University of Tulsa announced today that…

Engineering & Natural Sciences inducts two into Hall of Fame

On Oct. 13, 2022, The University of Tulsa inducted Tamara D. Pollard…

TU creates Oxley College of Health and Natural Sciences

The University of Tulsa has announced that the biology, chemistry, geosciences and…

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Innovative TU research targets breast, pancreatic and brain cancer

Associate Professors of Chemistry and Biochemistry Angus Lamar and Robert Sheaff are…

Four ENS professors awarded grant to buy X-ray scattering instrument

Four University of Tulsa engineering and natural sciences professors recently received a…

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TU researchers awarded grant to buy sophisticated robotic arm

A team from Mechanical Engineering and Anthropology received National Science Foundation funding…

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Biological research: Defending against neurotrauma and the science of animal coloration

Alexandra Kingston and Matthew Toomey have published studies exploring how snapping shrimp…

What is soft robotics?

Mechanical engineering doctoral student Caroline Schell shares her expertise in the emerging…

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TU students design, build and test device to support outer space exploration

NASA recently invited a team of mechanical engineering students and alumni to…

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Soft robots on the move

New research by Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Joshua Schultz and his…

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A new way to measure nanostructured materials

Rising senior Grant Mayberry’s improvised method for determining the dielectric properties of…

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Innovative solar power research selected for major government funding

Soroor Karimi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is the PI on…

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Lily Clough explores machine learning to predict the composition of seawater

About Lily Master’s of Geoscience; NASA-funded research assistantship Oklahoma Geological Foundation Graduate…

Grand Prize photo by Yiran Xing

Geo Photo Content 2022

GEOPHOTO 2022 was conducted 3:30-5:00, Friday, April 15, 2022. Lots of great pictures!…

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Fresh light on C. elegans development and mammalian ciliogenesis

In collaboration with the Nebraska Medical Center, Assistant Professor Jyoti Iyer’s lab…

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Engineering students design and build interactive space shuttle cockpit model

Capping off their senior year, four electrical and computer engineering students unveiled…

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Fulbright Scholar’s powerful Czech microscopy

Associate Professor Erin Iski spent late winter and the first part of…

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TU, PSO announce AEP Foundation gift in support of Power Lab

The University of Tulsa and Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) are…

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Between a soft robot and a hard place

A team of researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering is leading…

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TU biochemistry professor works to uncover the causes of a debilitating neurodevelopmental disorder

Jyoti Iyer is researching genetic mutations in a microscopic worm that will…