Brady Nevels uses AI-powered glasses to read food labels and match his own clothes without asking family for help.

OU Health surgeons gave a baby donor valves that will grow with the child, sparing repeat open-heart surgeries.

A $12.8 million NIH grant is expanding OMRF’s cellular metabolism center and backing four early-career researchers studying chronic disease.

The Chickasaw Nation has launched a $1 billion medical campus in Newcastle, with 5,500 jobs and millions of square feet planned. The project could transform health care and infrastructure across the southwest Oklahoma City metro.

An OU‑led paper finds that bank voles rely largely on ancestral genetic variation — an "evolutionary tool kit" — to adapt to climate shifts, reinforcing the need to protect genetic diversity.

OMES unveiled BEACON, an enterprise AI platform that debuts with two beta lighthouse tools to modernize administrative rules and procurement across 125+ agencies.

OU researchers have joined a national NIH project using AI tools that recent work showed can surface new genetic diagnoses in previously unsolved pediatric cases.

UCO will start two AI-focused degree tracks in fall 2026: a computer‑science bachelor’s with an AI focus and an MBA emphasis in AI management. The programs are aimed at Oklahoma employers in aerospace, defense, energy and finance.

OMRF researchers found mature fat cells can convert into scar‑forming fibroblasts in mice, a finding published in Cell Reports that could point to new anti‑scarring strategies.

Rogers State is building a $35M Robson Center in Claremore to centralize lab-based STEM programs and expand teacher-prep and campus facilities. The three-story building will add maker spaces, robotics bays and new student amenities.

SSM Health St. Anthony is using the FDA‑approved TAMBE graft to treat complex thoracoabdominal aneurysms locally, shortening wait times and speeding recoveries.

Oklahoma City‑based Tobe Energy has launched NODE‑01 and says it will mount its first commercial hydrogen deployment at Zeeco’s Broken Arrow test complex later this year.

Pafford has rolled out a Low Titer O whole-blood program for EMS across western Oklahoma, and a May 6 blood drive at its OKC headquarters seeks Type O donors.