Seizure Onset Zone Located Immediately, Dealt With
University of Houston associate professor of biomedical engineering Nuri Ince, who pioneered a dramatic decrease in the time it takes to detect the seizure onset zone (SOZ) in…
Three mechanical engineering professors at the UH Cullen College of Engineering won grants from the National Science Foundation totaling $867,309. These funds enable professors to work on critical research on various topics that…
NSF Grant Funds Collaborative Research Involving Three Universities
Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), once only existing in the realm of science fiction, are now a growing part of our daily lives. If you have ever used…
Xingpeng Li Submitted Two Winning Proposals to DOE Competition
Balancing electricity supply and demand is challenging, and the prospect of blackouts carries a substantial economic risk. An engineer with the University of Houston…
NSF grant to Rice, UH, Texas Southern will help future science, engineering professors
HOUSTON – (Aug. 13, 2019) – Rice University, Texas Southern University (TSU) and the University of Houston (UH) have won a multimillion-dollar…
Finding Could Lead to Better Clinical Disease Monitoring
University of Houston researcher Chandra Mohan is reporting in Arthritis Research and Therapy that clotting proteins, both those that promote blood clots (pro-thrombotic)…
Conference Focuses on Protection and Rapid Recovery on the Gulf Coast
Just before the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey, emergency managers, industry executives and public executives will meet Friday, Aug. 2, at the…
Faculty, students recognized for innovation, creative entrepreneurial spirit
Innovation is the engine that drives all of humanity’s greatest achievements – from the creation of the first wheel to electricity to heart transplants…
Research Team Combines Multi-Spectral Imaging and Supercomputing
Badri Roysam, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, is leading a $3.19 million project to create…
Two UH Cullen College of Engineering professors received funding from the Welch Foundation for their contributions to basic chemical research that benefits humankind. These three-year grants extend from 2019 to 2022.
Jiming Bao,…
Findings Could Help Seamlessly Integrate Prosthetics
A University of Houston engineer is reporting in eNeuro that a brain-computer interface, a form of artificial intelligence, can sense when its user is expecting a reward by…
Yan Yao’s “Battery500” Award Selected for Phase II
A quest for better batteries has led the U.S. Department of Energy to invest an additional $800,000 in Yan Yao’s research project titled “High-Energy Solid-State Lithium…
Researchers Determine Why Strontium-rich Barite is Found in Oceans
In solving a scientific mystery, researchers from the University of Houston and the nation’s national laboratories also discovered a new avenue for clearing…
New polymer films conduct heat like metals
Polymers, also known as plastics, can be found in almost every kind of modern technological products – from soft robotics and organic electronics to 3D printing and artificial skin.…
New Facilities and Space will Benefit Research and Education
When Thomas Hsu first stepped onto the University of Houston campus in 1980, UH was an emerging research university in search of top research faculty members to advance…
UH-Led Project Focuses on Training Robots to Observe and Make Decisions
A 5K race can offer both victory and heartbreak, but capturing those moments on video requires both planning ahead and making on-the-spot decisions about…
B Cells Gone Bad Could be the Culprit in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Biomolecular researcher Navin Varadarajan recently published in Arthritis & Rheumatology journal a first-of-its-kind study - a comprehensive profile of B cells in…
Better Understanding Could Lead to New Prevention and Treatment for Birth Defects
Soon after conception, an embryo’s circulatory system connects to that of its mother. Complications that occur at this critical time can result in…
Transformative Research Empowering Patients to Monitor Themselves
With $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), two University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering biomedical researchers are moving…
Alumni Spotlight
Megan Goh (BSBE ’18), a 2018-2019 Fulbright grant recipient, is conducting research in Germany. She is studying how and when infantile brain disorders occur in animal models using photoacoustic imaging.
Her lab…
