Graycen Wheeler
Water ReporterGraycen 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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The Nowata Public Works Authority lost its facility and everything stored there in a catastrophic fire. -
As Oklahoma City makes large-scale improvements to its EMBARK public transit system, it now has $19.5 million in federal funds to help. -
Schools, courthouses and businesses across Oklahoma have closed their doors to keep people off the streets during the first major snowfall this winter. -
Oklahoma City normally offers a service to help residents safely dispose of things like batteries, paint and cleaning chemicals. -
Oklahoma banker, philanthropist and civic leader Gene Rainbolt died Thursday at 95. -
KOSU hired Graycen Wheeler as the station’s first reporter covering water issues in 2022. She hasn’t stopped covering major environmental issues and the lighter side of water since. Here are five of her favorite stories from 2024. -
After a 10-year court battle, a federal judge has ordered the removal of a wind farm on Osage land. The judge also awarded the Osage Mineral Council more than $300,000 in damages. -
Nearly two decades after Kevin Ray Underwood murdered his 10-year-old neighbor, he died by lethal injection this morning at 10:14 a.m., according to media witnesses. -
Oklahoma City’s new rapid transit bus service has been a success, according to city officials. -
Two Oklahoma properties will join the National Register of Historic Places. A spot on the list means recognition and some protections for the Prairie House in Norman and the Haywood Estate in Oklahoma City. A third home, Harrah’s Rock House, is expected to make the list in the coming weeks.
