Tours - NEW!

Please note that each time slot has limited space available. All tours will take place the afternoon of Wednesday, September 16th. Shuttles will be available to and from each location.

*Foreign nationals that sign up for the National Weather Center tour or the Radar Operations Center/ National Weather Radar Testbed tour must fill out and return this form by September 9th.

US citizens and permanent residents need not complete the NWC Foreign National Visitor Form.

OU Bizzell Library- Red Bus/Shuttle

Bizzell Memorial Library was built in 1929 and later named for William Bennett Bizzell, the University's fifth president. It is located in the heart of the Norman campus. The state's largest library contains more than 2.6 million volumes, more than 16,000 periodicals and distinguished special collections such as the Harry W. Bass Collection in Business History, the Bizzell Bible Collection, and the History of Science Collections, which is one of the largest collections of rare scientific books and documents in the United States. For more information, please go to: https://libraries.ou.edu/locations/?id=33
- The Bizzell Library will be showcasing Galileo exhibits during this tour: Controversy over the Comets, Galileo and China, Galileo Today, Galileo, Engineer, Music of the Spheres and The Galileo Affair. For more information, please go to: https://galileo.ou.edu/locations
Available tours:
- 3:30
- 3:45
- 4:00
- 4:30
- 5:00
- 5:15
- 5:30
Pickup/Drop off location & Address:

OU Main Campus, South Oval
1200 Asp Avenue
Norman, OK 73019

Sign up here for the OU Bizzell Library tour: http://doodle.com/s5kqfenzskqksk7f

Radar Innovations Lab- Purple Bus/Shuttle

The new Radar Innovations Laboratory (RIL) of the Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) is on the University of Oklahoma’s (OU) Research Campus next to the National Weather Center (NWC), and is a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to advancing OU’s radar research and education. ARRC is dedicated to placing a premium on creative thinking and collaboration among faculty, students, and external partners; innovating the next generation of radar, microwave electronics and related technologies. The RIL is a destination showcase for both researchers and the public, serving as a facility for performing world-class research, educating the next generation, and demonstrating the practical value of both to the citizens of Oklahoma and the Nation. This building serves both the research and educational missions of the University of Oklahoma, providing a hands-on active learning environment for OU’s engineering and science students with a design that naturally encourages collaboration by avoiding the limiting constructs, both physical and programmatic, of a traditional academic environment. For more information, please go to: http://arrc.ou.edu/ril.html
Available tours:
- 3:30
- 4:00
- 4:30
- 5:00
- 5:30
- 6:00
Pickup/Drop off location & Address:

Front Circle Drive of
Radar Innovations Lab
3190 Monitor Avenue
Norman, OK 73019

Sign up here for the Radar Innovations Lab tour: http://doodle.com/zpuntg4hfsczivn3

National Weather Center- Blue Bus/Shuttle

The National Weather Center (NWC) is comprised of multiple agencies from the federal, state and local levels, combined with academic entities and research and development partners. These organizations work together in partnership to improve understanding of events occurring in Earth’s atmosphere over a wide range of time and space scales. The National Weather Center houses approximately 550 people including research scientists, operational meteorologists and climatologists, engineers, technicians support staff, and graduate and undergraduate students. For more information, please go to: http://www.ou.edu/nwc