Former CCEW Inventors
Spring of 2009 Inventors
Cengiz Altan
Dr. Altan leads the Composite Materials Research Group at the University of Oklahoma. His primary research interests are thermo-fluid sciences and manufacturing of advanced composite materials. Composite Materials Research Group, supervised by Dr. Altan, has received more than $3.5M of research funding from federal and state governments as well as from several public and private companies during the last two decades.
Dr. Altan holds two patents on curing of composite materials. (U.S. Patent # 5,207,956 and 5,453,226) and received Technology Development Recognition Award at the University of Oklahoma. Another patent application on the "Nanocomposite Manufacturing" has been filed in August 2007.
Robert A. Floyd
Dr. Floyd's research has been focused on the redox biology of cancer development and diseases associated with brain aging. He has pioneered in the effort to use novel methods to trap reactive oxygen intermediates in biological systems and to characterize their reaction products with biological macromolecules, especially DNA.
He discovered in 1988 that nitrone-based free radical traps have neuroprotective activity in experimental models of brain ischemia/reperfusion, even if the nitrone (aphenyl-tert-butyl nitrone i.e. PBN) is administered up to an hour after the stroke has occurred. This led to his co-founding Centaur Pharmaceuticals in 1992, which devoted intense activity in commercializing nitrone-related therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Arising from this effort, a nitrone experimental drug, NXY-059, became a lead candidate for clinical trials in acute ischemic stroke. Now with the developmental leadership of Renovis, Inc. and Astra Zeneca, this novel therapeutic is nearing the end of worldwide phase 3 clinical trials.
He has a B.S. from the University of Kentucky , a PhD from Purdue University, and he is currently a Member of the Experimental Therapeutics Research Laboratory of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
Mary John O'Hair
Dr. Mary John O'Hair is Vice Provost for School and Community Partnerships at the University of Oklahoma. In addition, Dr. O'Hair is founding director of the University of Oklahoma's K20 Center which serves as a statewide, interdisciplinary educational research and development center and a conduit between university and industry researchers and over 500 schools and communities in Oklahoma.
During Dr. O'Hair's tenure, the K20 Center has worked diligently to create interactive K-12 learning communities that motivate, prepare and support students in pursuing advanced studies, rewarding careers, and civic participation. Receiving over $21 million in external funding from federal, state, and private sources, the K20 Center has made significant progress in developing and sustaining systemic substantive changes impacting student learning throughout Oklahoma.
Dr. O'Hair is a tenured professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and has published numerous articles and books on interactive learning communities, leading systemic change, and organizational learning. Her most recent book is Network Learning for Educational Change (2005; co-edited with Wiel Veugelers; Open University Press). Dr. O'Hair serves on Microsoft's U.S. Partners in Learning (PiL) Board of Advisors and is an advisor for the National School Reform Faculty.
Scott Wilson
Since 1992, Scott has served as a middle school/high school science teacher, technology coordinator, coach, library media specialist, instructional materials coordinator, instructional technology coordinator, educational technology team leader, science curriculum coach, and a federal grant administrator in both a small rural and large urban school settings. He has B.S. in Natural Science Education from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma, and a PhD in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum from the University of Oklahoma.
His research interests include: digital game-based learning, technology integration, professional development (specifically technology integration PD), and management of constructivist classrooms.
