Cullen College of Engineering professors Birol Dindoruk, Megan Robertson and Francisco Robles Hernandez have joined the prestigious list of Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors.
The University of Houston now has 39…
Abraham E. Dukler Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering Jeffrey Rimer has been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), a recognition that affirms the “high esteem with which his colleagues…
Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Ben Xu has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for $598,991 for his research to understand bubble dynamics in hydrogels.
His project, “Multiscale…
William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering assistant professor Gül Zerze, Ph.D., has earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for $500,000 for her proposal, “Unveiling the Dynamics of…
On the barrier islands of Miami, 35 skyscrapers — including Trump Tower III — have sunk as much as eight centimeters, or three inches, into the ground since 2016, and researchers from the University of Houston have played a…
A new way to detect colorectal cancer through wearable sensors has reached a development milestone. University of Houston researcher Zhengwei Li has recently completed a Pilot Program initiative supported by NIMHD and HEALTH-RCMI…
Hemp has become increasingly popular for its versatile uses — CBD-rich varieties are in high demand for pharmaceutical products, while fiber-rich varieties are valued for industrial applications like textiles. Now, a new…
Kirill Larin, Cullen Endowed Professor and the interim Chairman of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2025 SPIE Biophotonics Technology…
While lithium-ion batteries have been the go-to technology for everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars, there are growing concerns about the future because lithium is relatively scarce, expensive and difficult to…
Forward-thinking materials scientist Yan Yao, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, is the recipient of the…
Edward Ratner, a computer information systems lecturer in the Department of Information Science Technology at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors…
An assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering has been recognized as a rising star in environmental engineering and science, thanks to his research on…
Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy launched an ARPA-E Program called GOPHURRS, which stands for Grid Overhaul with Proactive, High-speed Undergrounding for Reliability, Resilience, and Security, and it has allocated $34…
Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student Zhaoyang Chen’s research article, “Manipulating Hardness to Construct Favorable Electrode Microstructures for All-Solid-State Batteries,” was not only published in the highly-respected…
The Cullen College of Engineering’s Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) and its space architecture degree program might be the University of Houston’s unintentionally-best-kept secret.
“Houston is…
The naysayers and detractors of online gaming and its ill effects on youth might need to stand down. That’s what science is telling us in a new report in the journal Human Resource Development International from Melika…
A University of Houston-affiliated project that has the potential to transform sustainable fuel production was selected to receive $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
Led by…
Electrical and Computer Engineering senior Ph.D. candidate Akash Awasthi is making a name for himself. With a paper nominated for the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering’s Best Poster Award, a second paper…
A paper recently co-authored by Md Murad Hossain Khondaker, a civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston, may hold key insights that allow for better predictions of catastrophic flooding…
Researchers Find Reducing International Flights in Western Europe Results in Fewer Global COVID-19 Cases
A team of engineers at the University of Houston has published a study in the journal Nature on how international air travel…
