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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A state judge has temporarily blocked Oklahoma from enforcing its ban on using so-called “woke banks” for state business. -
Tornadoes touched down in Central and Northeast Oklahoma, leaving destruction — especially in the small Osage County town of Barnsdall and in Bartlesville. -
Gov. Kevin Stitt has vetoed a bill that would have required farmers, ranchers and other commercial irrigators to track how much water they pull from Oklahoma’s aquifers. Lawmakers said House Bill 3194 could help Oklahoma understand and protect its groundwater stores. -
Oklahoma Natural Gas is asking the state Corporation Commission to approve a rate hike that would cost the average utility customer about $2.50 more than they currently pay monthly. -
State Auditor Cindy Byrd says Oklahoma is becoming a “no-bid state,” thanks to mismanagement at the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services that started during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Oklahoma’s spring turkey season starts today and runs through May 16. Hunters can help with research to help the state’s turkey populations thrive. -
The path of totality completely covered McCurtain County, while partially going over Choctaw, Bryan, Atoka, Pushmataha, Latimer and LeFlore Counties. -
Osage citizen Dakoda McCauley argued he should be tried in federal court for the 2018 death of an acquaintance in Barnsdall, for which he was convicted of manslaughter in Osage County. The appeals judges disagreed and declined to move his case. -
The Oklahoma Supreme Court says the state legislature has authority to override the governor's vetoes on tribal compacts. -
Voters in 68 of Oklahoma's 77 counties are heading to the polls Tuesday to consider school bonds, school board and other municipal elections.
