Graycen Wheeler
Graycen Wheeler is a reporter covering water issues at KOSU. She joined KOSU in June 2022 as a corps member with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative that places emerging journalists in newsrooms across the country.
Wheeler grew up in Norman and attended the University of Oklahoma, where she studied biochemistry. She started writing and podcasting about science news while she was a graduate researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder. Wheeler realized that becoming a journalist would allow her to combine her love for her local community with the puzzle-solving penchant that had drawn her to science. So, after earning her doctorate in biochemistry, she completed a master’s in science journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
While in Santa Cruz, Wheeler wrote about science and technology for outlets including Science, Symmetry Magazine and Mongabay. She also covered local news, particularly housing and environmental issues, for the Monterey Herald, San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Local.
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Martial artist and actor Chuck Norris died suddenly Thursday morning, according to an announcement from his family. The 86-year-old was reportedly hospitalized earlier this week while training in Hawaii. -
President Trump recently announced he's appointing Markwayne Mullin as Secretary of Homeland Security, but it's up to Mullin's fellow Senators to decide whether he's up for the job. They'll start that process the morning of March 18, according to posted committee hearing schedules. -
The Oklahoma Secretary of State's office says State Question 836 did not receive the signatures it needed to appear on an Oklahoma ballot. -
Conditions are expected to weaken Wednesday but build back up Thursday through Saturday. -
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has appointed a special prosecutor to go after Indigenous hunters who are cited for hunting without a state license on tribal reservations. -
Oklahoma's Supreme Court has paused the implementation of new social studies standards in the state's schools. -
Oklahoma school districts are responding after State Superintendent Ryan Walters sent district superintendents across the state a video that he said must be shown in classrooms. -
Oklahomans took to the polls Wednesday for the first day of early voting. Oklahoma has four early voting days this year — that's one more than in the 2020 Presidential general election. -
Oklahoma Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over alleged impropriety by Corporation CommissionerThe Oklahoma Supreme Court has decided to hear oral arguments in a case against Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett. Three lawmakers say inappropriate behavior from Hiett taints his ability to perform some of his duties. -
Southeast Oklahoma Power Corporation, an energy company, wants to create two reservoirs just south of Talihina on the Kiamichi River that would act like a giant hydropower battery. Many Southeastern Oklahomans are gearing up to fight the project, which could displace hundreds of people.
