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Method Less Invasive, Less Expensive than Colonoscopy University of Houston researcher Chandra Mohan is set to make a breakthrough in predicting and monitoring inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). With $347,490 from the Crohn’s… Stool Proteins to Predict Inflammatory Bowel Disease
UH Engineers Focus on Degradable Reconnaissance Vehicles and Evasive Drone Maneuvers Ensuring military forces have up-to-date information about a potentially hostile region offers obvious advantages, but current methods for doing… Mission: Possible — Mapping Dangerous Terrain
National Science Foundation grant provides scholarships and support to academically-talented underserved students The National Science Foundation awarded a $999,029 grant to a team of University of Houston researchers for a new… UH Researchers Win $1M Award to Boost Student Success
With $2 Million Grant, UH Researcher Unraveling the Link The chronic inflammatory disease systemic lupus erythematosus (known as SLE or lupus), is about nine times more common in women than men, and a University of Houston… Women and Lupus – Tackling the Debilitating Connection
Inspired by nature, Ph.D. candidate proposes computational framework to solve life problems Real life problems are often complex and hard to resolve. So Mohammad Sarraf Joshaghani, a third year Ph.D. student at the Cullen College… UH Engineering Student Wins First Place at 2018 EMI Conference
UH Engineers Are Testing a Theory with Livestock Microbiome Antibiotic resistance is one of the world’s most serious threats to public health, forcing the use of medications that are more toxic, more expensive and not always… Can Nanoparticles Be Used to Lower Antibiotic Resistance?
UH Researchers Receive Grants from the Texas Hazardous Waste Research Center Texas has water issues. Massive flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey nearly drowned Houston and other coastal areas last August. Months later, many… Solving Texas Water Problems: One Project At A Time
Robots Could be Used in Medicine, Rescue and Defense If Star Wars’ R2-D2 is your idea of a robot, think again. Researchers led by a University of Houston engineer have reported a new class of soft robot, composed of ultrathin… Researchers Design ‘Soft’ Robots that Can Move on Their Own
It’s no secret that data is everywhere today – endless streams of information are constantly being collected through our smartphones and mobile devices, by sensors placed on bridges and in buildings and even through our smart… UH Engineer Part of Team Awarded $7.5 Million MURI Grant to Analyze Social Behavior and Predict Outcomes
Wins National Award to Further Research With a perfect score on his research proposal, chemical and biomolecular engineering researcher Mehmet Orman received the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)… Researcher Takes New Approach to Antibiotic Tolerance
New Monitoring Tool Would Be Able To Detect Imperfections Almost Instantaneously Researchers from the University of Houston are developing a new quality control tool for continuous nanomanufacturing, a key step in moving… Researchers Seek to Improve Quality Control for Nanomanufacturing
UH researcher receives DOE grant to study fundamental interactions While microorganism like bacteria and fungi have co-existed for eons, there is still much to discover about them, their interactions and the benefits they offer… Bacteria-fungi interaction may lead to improvements in crop production, sustainable energy
Groundbreaking brain-machine interfacing with prostheses highlighted About 3.5 million people in America are living with some degree of paralysis related to stroke, multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy. Nature magazine this month… Nature Magazine Features UH Professor’s Work to Address Paralysis
When it comes to batteries, UH engineer Yan Yao never runs out of award-winning ideas. Yao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College, and his research partners are known for their… Battery Expert Powers Up With a Scialog Award
Yan Yao Receives Scialog Award A paper about safer batteries made with organic materials written by a team of researchers at the UH Cullen College of Engineering made the cover of one of the world’s most prestigious chemistry… From Exploding Hoverboards to Tomorrow’s Batteries:  UH engineering team lands on front cover of prestigious publication
Cunjiang Yu wins 2018 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award Imagine U.S. Navy divers wearing camouflage ‘skin’ suits and gathering intelligence. They could swim undetected in enemy waters as their suit changed color… UH Researcher Developing Smart Artificial Skin Inspired by Underwater Masters of Camouflage
Inspired by Deepwater Horizon, researcher targets equipment failure Equipment failure in capital-intensive industries such as oil and gas, aerospace and more has serious consequences — from loss of assets and production time to… Cullen College Professor Combines Math and Engineering to Enhance Safety, Efficiency in Oil and Gas Industry
Maternal exposures to alcohol and nicotine, which are sometimes abused during pregnancies, are linked to fetal growth retardation and neurotoxicity. However, the individual and combined effects of the toxins on molecular… Engineer Earns Millions to Explore Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine on Brain Development in Mice
Two professors at the UH Cullen College of Engineering earned a $200,000 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Discovery Award from the U.S. Department of Defense to further explore a quantitative assessment technique… Award Allows Engineers to Pursue Technique for Assessing Systemic Sclerosis
Casual conversations around the dinner table belonging to a biomedical engineer and a health economist are as interesting as one might expect – and potentially just as productive. Sergey Shevkoplyas, UH Cullen College associate… Professor Develops Screening Test to Help Save Lives of Children in Sub-Saharan Africa