The center will be located on a site at 10th Street and Walnut Avenue, near downtown OKC, and will focus on “accelerating mid- to later-stage oil and gas technologies developed in GE’s Global Research labs, including production systems, well construction, water use optimization, CO2 solutions, and energy systems,” the company announced. Said Gov. Mary Fallin […]
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Health kick
Grant funds will create the Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources program, which develops partnerships between the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), Native American tribes and physicians across the state. “This gives us access to people and data immediately,” said Courtney Montgomery, Ph.D, an associate member of the […]
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Federal grant helps fund disease research
Photo by Mark Hancock Grant funds will create the Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources program, which creates partnerships between the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), Native American tribes and physicians across the state. “This gives us access to people and data immediately,” said Courtney Montgomery, Ph.D, an […]
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Say you’re sorry
Credit: Brad Gregg On June 11, freshman U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, took to the House floor to demand — nay, to demand! — that President Barack Obama apologize to Oklahomans for not spending more on weather research. “This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather […]
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Texas 4000 charity ride stops in OKC
The ride is comprised of University of Texas students, and has helped to raise more than $2 million since its establishment in 2004. Oklahoma is one of only eight overnight stops during the ride of more than 4,500 miles, which will take its participants all the way to Alaska, and it’s the last one until […]
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Golden Graham
Graham is the CEO of Graham Industries, a company that specializes in these very different areas. Although Graham said people have compared his company’s ventures to being “‘James Bond’-like,” it isn’t located under a volcano or an undisclosed island like an elusive hideout. It is located in a quiet office building in Bethany with no […]
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‘Controversy’ response
He says “Innovation is the product of investigation.” Well, no. Knowledge is the product of investigation. Let’s investigate and apply some critical thinking to the Rev. Kern’s comments. He suggests something is deliberately off-limits when it comes to investigating evolution and that all “junk DNA” has function. He insinuates science misunderstands “junk” DNA and assumptions […]