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An assistant professor at the Cullen College of Engineering is the latest recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Ran An is an assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department with a joint… BME's An earns CAREER award for 'current' work
Incorporation of Molecules Occurs in Two Steps, Divided by an Intermediate State A million years ago, the oldest known species to walk upright like a human, the Homo erectus, had a human-like fascination with crystals. Historians… ChBE Researcher Solving an Age-Old Mystery about Crystal Formation
Jian Shi, an assistant professor at the Cullen College of Engineering with a dual appointment to the Engineering Technology and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments, won't soon forget his son's 10th birthday. It's… ECE, Engineering Technology's Shi earns CAREER award
A professor at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has received more than half a million in funding from the National Science Foundation to refine and streamline cooperation efforts between robotic 3D… IE's Xiang leading project on decision analytics to improve robotic cooperative 3D printing
New research by a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering could lead to the creation of material architecture that changes its behavior based on different temperature situations.… Research by ME's Tian Chen picked for journal cover
A professor at the Cullen College of Engineering has been honored by being elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, one of the highest honors of distinction provided by the organization. Ji… ECE's Ji Chen earns IEEE Fellow distinction
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $17.4 million funding for 19 early-stage research projects focused on expanding clean energy technologies at colleges and universities across America. These projects will… Three Cullen Projects Rack Up $3M in Funding for Decarbonization, Emissions Research
Antibodies and DNA Used to Find the Biological Markers of Disease New biomarkers with improved diagnostic performance for early detection of lupus nephritis have been discovered in the University of Houston lab of Chandra Mohan,… New Biomarkers for Lupus Nephritis Discovered by Mohan
To tackle the challenges of a shrinking wireless spectrum, the University of Houston has joined the Spectrum Management with Adaptive and Reconfigurable Technology (SMART) Hub – a Department of Defense Spectrum Innovation Center… UH Joins SMART Hub, A $5M Department of Defense Consortium
Remember that party where you were swinging glow sticks above your head or wearing them as necklaces? Fun times, right? Science times, too. Turns out those fun party favors are now being used by a University of Houston researcher… Cullen Researcher Using Glow Sticks to Detect Biothreats for U.S. Navy
An assistant professor at the Cullen College of Engineering has been awarded a three-year, $505,286 grant from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to advance research on digitizing bridges using robots, data and… CEE's Hoskere wins grant to research digitizing Texas bridges
Researchers at the University of Houston are training future agricultural scientists in new methods of protecting the world’s foodcrops – which too often are left vulnerable to extreme weather events in these days of climate… Cullen Professor Trains Future Agri-Scientists to Outsmart Climate Change Threats
Two powerhouse engineers and inventors from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have secured coveted positions as Fellows in the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The election as academy Fellows of Vincent… Two Cullen Professors Named NAI Fellows
Mechanical Engineering Technology professor Weihang Zhu has now started the second phase of a collaborative offshore safety-focused effort with the American Bureau of Shipping, funded by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) and… ME Technology's Zhu starting 2nd phase of safety culture research
Farmyard and backyard chickens the world over have long been the happy recipients of family table scraps as a part of their regular diets, allowing households to not only reduce their food waste but to decrease the demand for new… Technology Division Researchers Developing Healthy Organic Chicken Feed Using Mushroom Stems
As the world strives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and find sustainable transportation solutions, University of Houston energy researchers suggest that hydrogen fuel can potentially be a cost-competitive and environmentally… UH Researchers Suggest Hydrogen Fuel Can be a Competitive Alternative to Gasoline and Diesel Today
A University of Houston engineering research team is pioneering a new method, based on percussion, to detect pipeline elbow erosion. It is no small problem. Below the surface of the earth, a veritable superhighway of piping… Cullen Researchers Develop New Percussion Method to Detect Pipeline Elbow Erosion
Abdul Latif Khan, an assistant professor in the Cullen College of Engineering's Technology Division's Department of Engineering Technology, has received a research grant from the USDA to purchase instruments that will allow for… Khan using new instruments for real-time photosynthesis monitoring
For the second straight year, the same dynamic quartet of University of Houston scientists has been honored as world-class, highly cited researchers, acknowledging the remarkable and widespread impact of their scientific… Repeat! Four University of Houston Researchers Named Most Cited in the World
In an attempt to better regulate temperature in a variety of synthetic structures and gain a deeper understanding of biological systems, a newly published paper by researchers from the Cullen College of Engineering’s Civil and… Paper by CEE’s Nakshatrala, Adhikari provides insight into temperature regulation in vascular systems