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The University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering and Houston Community College have reached an agreement to offer UH Engineering Academy courses at the HCC Felix Fraga Academic Campus on the east side of Houston on…
UH, HCC partnering on Engineering Academy at Fraga campus
The stature of the Cullen College of Engineering has increased again, as it improved by its ranking by one in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report, up to the No. 66 rated graduate engineering program in the country…
Cullen College improves again in U.S. News & World Report rankings
Cullen College of Engineering professor Jeffrey Rimer, Ph.D., has been selected as the newest Associate Editor for Crystal Growth & Design, a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the American Chemical Society. Rimer,…
Rimer picked as Associate Editor for ACS' Crystal Growth & Design
Her work as an undergraduate computational researcher, as well as a strong support system inside and outside of the University of Houston system, have allowed senior Rosa Miraldina Futy to excel in her studies, which includes…
ChBE student earns ACS development award
A mutation that replaces a single amino acid in a potent tumor-suppressing protein turns it from saint to sinister. A new study by a coalition of Texas institutions shows why that is more damaging than previously known. The…
Cancer ‘guardian’ breaks bad with one switch, UH, Rice researchers show
Hien Nguyen, Jeffrey Rimer and Gangbing Song Elected to Senior Member Class of 2021 Three University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering researchers have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)…
Three UH Engineers Named to National Academy of Inventors
Six students from the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston have been honored by the Great Minds in STEM organization as 2020 scholars, and been rewarded with scholarships. For more than 30 years, GMiS has…
6 Cullen College students selected for Great Minds in STEM scholarships
University of Houston Biomolecular Engineer Receives NSF CAREER Award to Explore Cells That Defy Efforts to Kill Them Mehmet Orman, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston Cullen…
UH's Orman Researching Why Antibiotic-Resistant Cells Persist
A Cullen College of Engineering professor will be furthering his research into developing small, modular reactor systems and tuning the properties of catalysts after receiving a pair of grants expected to total more than $2…
Grabow nets another $2M for research projects on small reactors, catalysts
The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) has awarded five scholarships for 2020 to students attending the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering. Each student received a monetary award,…
5 Cullen College students honored by ASIE
As part of the University of Houston’s virtual university-wide commencement ceremony tonight, the prestigious President’s Medallion will be awarded posthumously to the late William A. Brookshire. The medallion is awarded at the…
President’s Medallion to be awarded to Brookshire
Longstanding skepticism among Texans toward the climate movement has shifted, and attitudes in the nation’s leading energy-producing state now mirror those in the rest of the United States. About 80 percent of Americans – almost…
Attitudes About Climate Change Are Shifting, Even in Texas
The University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering is proud to welcome Dr. Triantafillos "Lakis" J. Mountziaris as the new department chair for the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering…
Mountziaris joins UH as William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering chairman
A professor at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has earned another national distinction, as his work in providing unique learning experience for students was recognized by the Career Communications Group'…
UH's Henderson earns national Educational Leadership award
The artistic work of a scientist at the Cullen College of Engineering has been recognized with a third place finish in the British Association for Crystal Growth's 2020 Crystal in Art competition. Rajshree Chakrabarti, a graduate…
Chakrabarti earns artistic honor for crystal art
Several professors and researchers at the University of Houston are among the most cited in the world, according to an October 2020 update by researchers from Stanford about paper citations. “A standardized citation metrics…
Papers from Cullen College of Engineering professors make the grade, analysis finds
A new paper from the Vekilov Research Group at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering is shedding light on how crystals form, and in the process, overturning a belief held for more than a century. Dr. Peter G.…
New paper from Vekilov Research Group changes fundamental thinking on crystal formation
The University of Houston has entered into an exclusive license option agreement with AuraVax Therapeutics Inc., a Houston, TX based biotech company developing novel vaccines to help patients defeat debilitating respiratory…
University of Houston Partners with AuraVax Therapeutics on COVID-19 Vaccine
A new paper and research from the Conrad Research Group of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering looks at how bacteria could be used to help with…
Faster swimming bacteria could help with spills
The development of point-of-care tests – and as of late, for COVID-19 – has been the primary focus of Dr. Katerina Kourentzi, Research Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the William A. Brookshire…
Rapid tests for COVID-19 now, other diseases later the goal for Kourentzi

 


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