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Engineering Faculty Celebrated As Part Of 50-in-5 Achievements
December 2, 2021At the first in-person, 50-in-5 celebration event, 116 faculty members were honored at the Wortham House on Monday, Nov. 29. President Renu Khator, Provost Paula Myrick Short and Vice President for Research Amr Elnashai… 		More than 20 Engineering faculty members were recognized for contributing to the UH 50-in-5 initiative.
ChBE Chair Mountziaris honored with AIChE's Thomas Baron Award
November 8, 2021Triantafillos J. (Lakis) Mountziaris, Ph.D., the William A. Brookshire Department Chair of the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in UH’s Cullen College of Engineering, is the 2021 winner of… 		Triantafillos J. (Lakis) Mountziaris, Ph.D., the William A. Brookshire Department Chair of the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in UH’s Cullen College of Engineering, is the 2021 winner of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle Systems, sponsored by Shell.
Opportunities, community at UH allow ChBE's Koehler to flourish
November 3, 2021For Annabelle Koehler, a junior student in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering and the Honors College, the school has provided her with… 		Annabelle Koehler, a junior student in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering and the Honors College, has flourished at the University of Houston.
Bhowmick honored with 2022 Melvin Mooney Award from ACS
November 2, 2021Anil K. Bhowmick, Ph.D., a research professor at the University of Houston’s International Polymer & Soft Matter Center within the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will be the… 		Anil K. Bhowmick, Ph.D., a research professor at the University of Houston’s International Polymer & Soft Matter Center within the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will be the recipient of the 2022 Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award.
Mapping the Complexity of T Cells to Improve Immunotherapy
November 2, 2021It is not an exaggeration to say that immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment. Nor is it boastful to say University of Houston M.D. Anderson Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering Navin Varadarajan intends… 		University of Houston M.D. Anderson Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering Navin Varadarajan will use a $1.8 million grant to develop and validate what he calls Multiscale Intelligent Convergence (MusIC) to offer unprecedented insights into the function of immune cells.
Kim, Agrawal recognized by Axalta Bright Futures program
October 18, 2021A pair of student researchers in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering have been recognized for their work by the Axalta Bright Futures… 		Doctoral student Aman Agrawal.
Shell-Led Consortium With UH Professor Selected to Demonstrate Feasibility of Large-Scale Liquid Hydrogen Storage
October 13, 2021Ambitious Engineering Challenge Provides Potential Pathway Toward Stable, Global Hydrogen Supply Chain HOUSTON, Oct. 13, 2021 — A consortium of public, private and academic experts led by Shell International Exploration and… 		The consortium logo, with all of the partners.
Cullen College of Engineering promotes six professors
September 28, 2021The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce that six professors have earned promotions, starting with the fall semester of the 2021-22 academic year. All listed positions are tenured, or on a tenure track. Professors… 		Six professors have been promoted for the 2021-22 academic year at the Cullen College of Engineering.
Henderson, Burleson, Rangel lead multi-college study for Engineering Education
September 23, 2021A multi-college effort to enhance opportunities for underrepresented student groups in the Houston region and beyond via the establishment of an Engineering Research Center has received a $100,000 planning grant from the National… 		Jerrod Henderson.
COVID-19 Nasal Vaccine Candidate Effective at Preventing Disease Transmission
September 15, 2021IN THROUGH THE NOSE... Breathe in, breathe out. That’s how easy it is for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to enter your nose. And though remarkable progress has been made in developing intramuscular vaccines against… 		UH engineering professor Navin Varadarajan.
Docking Peptides, Slow to Lock, Open Possible Path to Treat Alzheimer’s
September 15, 2021Frustration in Amyloid Fibrils as They Form Shows it May be Possible to Stop Their Growth HOUSTON – Progress on treating Alzheimer’s disease has been frustratingly slow. A group of scientists in Houston suggest frustration at a… 		Graduate student Yuechuan (Alex) Xu, left, and Professor Peter Vekilov of the University of Houston pose near an atomic force microscope of the same type used to capture the growth of amyloid beta fibrils implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.
Docking Peptides, Slow to Lock, Open Possible Path to Treat Alzheimer’s
September 13, 2021Frustration in Amyloid Fibrils as They Form Shows it May be Possible to Stop Their Growth   Progress on treating Alzheimer’s disease has been frustratingly slow. A group of scientists in Houston suggest frustration at a very… 		Graduate student Yuechuan (Alex) Xu, left, and Professor Peter Vekilov of the University of Houston with an atomic force microscope of the sort they used to capture the growth of amyloid beta fibrils implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.
Cullen Professor Part of Fight Against Impure Honey
September 2, 2021Adulteration and mislabeling of honey to mask its true origin has become a global issue. To evade tariffs or sanctions, some illicit importers slap fake labels on the honey, indicating it is from a different country of origin.… 		Richard Willson, Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and principal investigator on the Honey DNA project, developed methods for sequencing DNA not only from whole pollen grains in unfiltered honey, but also from the small amounts of DNA leaked from broken pollen grains in filtered honey.
Cullen College of Engineering welcomes 13 new hires
September 1, 2021The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to welcome 13 new professors and lecturers for the 2021-22 academic year, as part of its continuing effort to grow the faculty and to provide high quality instruction for undergraduate… 		The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to welcome the following 12 people to the faculty for the 2021-22 academic year, and beyond.
Karim earns NSF's Special Creativity Award
August 25, 2021Alamgir Karim, the Dow Chairman and Welch Foundation professor of the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, has seen the potential of block copolymer when…
UH grad Ponnapati recognized as OTC Emerging Leader
August 19, 2021An interest in a variety of fields led Ramakrishna “Rama” Ponnapati to pursue his graduate research at the University of Houston, and that same drive to excel in multiple fields and to encourage the growth of others has led to… 		An interest in a variety of fields led Ramakrishna “Rama” Ponnapati to pursue his graduate research at the University of Houston, and that same drive to excel in multiple fields and to encourage the growth of others has led to his status as one of the members of the inaugural class of the Emerging Leaders Program of the Offshore Technology Conference.
Vekilov 'Proud, Humbled' to be 17th Recipient of AACG Award
August 13, 2021For Peter Vekilov, Ph.D., constantly being challenged and questioned about his scientific beliefs is all part of the process when it comes to his research and his teaching. The John and Rebecca Moores Professor, in the William A… 		Peter Vekilov, John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, is only the 17th recipient ever of the American Association for Crystal Growth Award.
Cullen Grad Aydil Now Chairman at NYU
August 12, 2021When Eray Aydil started at the Cullen College of Engineering in 1986, he didn't realize that he would be experiencing so many new opportunities for his professional development, research interests, and even his personal life.… 		Eray Aydil, a 1991 graduate with a doctorate in Chemical Engineering, is now the chairman of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering.
Cullen Alums, Prof's Smartphone-Based COVID-19 Test Hits Market
August 10, 2021In 2020, just as the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus caused a pandemic of respiratory illness called COVID-19, two chemical engineers and alumni of the University of Houston decided to pivot the product strategy of Luminostics, the… 		Andrew Paterson and Bala Raja, co-founders of Luminostics.
Grabow engineering dynamic solutions for carbon fiber market
July 16, 2021Lars Grabow's Research to Bring Chemical Production and Manufacturing Together Could Revolutionize Numerous Chemical Processes You may know little to nothing about the carbon fiber market, but products produced with carbon fibers… 		Acrylonitrile is the feedstock used to make carbon fiber, which is used in the manufacturing of an array of products, from vehicles and performance sports equipment to wind turbine blades and electronics.

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