July 13, 2016 archive

OSU Professors Receive $5 million Grant to Study Imperiled Plants

A $5.5 million grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is going to two Oklahoma State University professors of integrative biology to study ways to protect imperiled species. Kristen Baum and Monica Papes will work with a researcher at the University of Texas in Austin on a 3-year project on pollinator habitation restoration in Oklahoma …

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Tulsa Gets $300,000 Grant to Clean up Pollution Sites

The city of Tulsa is getting a $300,000 federal grant to clean up old pollution sites known as Brownfield locations. U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee noted how Tulsa has used Brownfield grants in the past to clean up sites that led to the construction of the BOK …

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