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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hadi Ghasemi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, earned the Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR). He is…
Aaron T. Becker, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $550,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his robotic research…
Cunjiang Yu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, earned a $500,000, five-year CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue development of his novel…
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that affects approximately 1.5 million Americans, according to the Lupus Foundation of America. In lupus patients, antibodies that are produced by the immune system’s B cells to protect the body…
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease without a cure and without a highly effective treatment option. Many scientists believe that genetics and environmental factors interact to cause immune cells in the human body to overreact…
Haluk Ogmen, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, his former doctoral student Hulusi Kafaligonul and his colleague Bruno Breitmeyer, UH professor of psychology, were invited to…
Lauren Talarico, a reporter for KHOU 11 News in Houston, interviewed Yan Yao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH Cullen College of Engineering, for her report on exploding hoverboards this week.
The…
The editor of The Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization invited Haluk Ogmen, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH Cullen College of Engineering, and his colleague Michael Herzog, professor of psychophysics…
The November inside cover of the journal Soft Matter features research conducted by Pradeep Sharma, professor and chair of the mechanical engineering department at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, his doctoral student…
