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Faculty Awards

Three Cullen College professors have been recognized by the University of Houston for their excellence in professorship and research as part of the university-wide teaching and research awards given each spring. Ashutosh Agrawal…
Faculty Members Honored with University-Wide Teaching Awards
The 2015 Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala will be held at the Petroleum Club of Houston on Thursday, June 11, 2015. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association, recognizes the professional…
EAA Announces 2015 Gala Award Winners
Two professors in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston earned Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) this year. Each received a five-year, $…
Two Engineering Professors Earn NSF CAREER Awards
Since 1955, the international society for optics and photonics, SPIE, has inducted fellows each year to recognize their significant scientific and technical contributions to optics, photonics and imaging fields as well as service…
Prestigious Society Inducts UH Engineering Professor
Dan Luss, Cullen Professor of Engineering in the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, recently celebrated his 30th anniversary as a member of the prestigious National Academy of…
Professor Celebrates 30th Anniversary as Member of National Academy of Engineering
Two University of Houston faculty members have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors for their contributions to scientific and technological innovation. The new UH fellows are Allan Jacobson, director of the…
Two UH Scientists Named to National Academy of Inventors
Mike Harold, M.D. Anderson Professor and chairman of the chemical and biomolecular engineering department at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, has been elected as a fellow of the American Institute of…
Chemical Engineering Chairman Elected as AIChE Fellow
Richard Willson, Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s…
Richard Willson Elected as Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
Researchers across the world are looking into various sources of sustainable feedstock for energy and chemicals production with the hope that these cleaner sources will dramatically reduce our need for petroleum-based feedstock…
UH Chemical Engineering Faculty Wins Department of Energy Early Career Award
Each spring, the University of Houston recognizes exceptional faculty member across the university at the annual UH Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony. This year, nine Cullen College of Engineering faculty members were honored…
Cullen College Faculty Awarded by University
Tom Holley, professor and director of the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s petroleum engineering program, has won the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Gulf Coast Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum…
Director of Petroleum Engineering Program Wins SPE Faculty Award
Although the winners of the 2013 UH Cullen College of Engineering faculty awards were announced in May of last year, they were honored again last Friday at Dean Tedesco's faculty and staff meeting when each winner was handed…
PHOTOS: Dean Tedesco Honors Faculty for Excellence in Teaching, Research
A researcher with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a $500,000 grant to develop plant-based plastics and rubbers. Megan Robertson, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering,…
Researcher Developing Plastics from Plants through NSF CAREER Grant
Ramanan Krishnamoorti, professor of petroleum engineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering as well as Chief Energy Officer at the University of Houston, has been named one of the city’s top energy professionals by the…
Krishnamoorti Honored by Houston Business Journal
Richard Willson’s efforts to develop highly sensitive disease diagnostic systems have made him one of the most accomplished researchers at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. Now Willson, already John and…
New Endowed Chair Supports Disease Diagnostics
Dr. Phaneendra Kondapi is well-known at the UH Cullen College of Engineering as one of the pioneering instructors of subsea engineering. Now, he is being recognized outside of the college for his fantastic contributions as a…
Subsea Professor Wins SPE Teaching Excellence Award
The 2013 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala was held at the Petroleum Club of Houston on Thursday, June 13, 2013. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association, recognizes the professional…
PHOTOS: Engineering Alumni Awards Gala 2013
This month, Dean Joseph Tedesco announced the 2013 winners of the UH Cullen College of Engineering faculty awards, in recognition of outstanding performance in teaching, research and service. Karolos Grigoriadis, Professor of…
Cullen College Honors Faculty for Excellence in Teaching and Research
The 2013 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala will be held at the Petroleum Club of Houston on Thursday, June 13, 2013. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association, recognizes the professional…
UH EAA Honors Distinguished Alumni, Faculty
We can all breathe a little easier with Mike Harold around. That’s not a cliché. Harold, professor and chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, has spent much…
Harold Wins UH’s Highest Faculty Honor