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The UH Cullen College of Engineering hosted this year’s Southwest Catalysis Society (SWCS) Symposium on April 22, 2016. The symposium provides an opportunity for engineering students from across the region to present their…
Three UH Engineers Earn Poster Awards at Southwest Catalysis Society Symposium
Chemical and biomolecular engineering graduate student Ricardo Sosa earned the coveted National Science Foundation (NSF) 2016 Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is a highly…
One UH Chemical Engineering Student Earns Coveted NSF Research Fellowship, Another Receives Honorable Mention
The University of Houston’s American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) student chapter hosted the 2016 AIChE Southwest Student Regional Conference on the UH campus from April 8-10. The conference brought together over 170…
Cullen College Hosts 2016 AIChE Southwest Student Regional Conference
This summer, a chemical and biomolecular engineering undergraduate student from the University of Houston Cullen College will attend the 2016 Harvard-Amgen Scholars Program in Cambridge, Mass. The Harvard-Amgen Scholars Program…
Harvard-Amgen Summer Program for Biotechnology Admits UH Engineering Undergrad
Doctoral student Megan Ketchum received the Best Presentation Award of the “Chemical Engineers in Medicine” session at the 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting held in Salt Lake City, UT last…
Doctoral Student Wins Best Presentation at Annual AIChE Meeting
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to recognize its outstanding students of the 2015-2016 year. With an enrollment of more than 3,000 hard-working and dedicated undergraduate students, finding ways to shine among a sea of…
Cullen College Names 2016 Outstanding Students
Forbes.com recently featured a blog post written by University of Houston Energy Ambassador Alex Pankiewicz. Pankiewicz, who is double majoring in chemical engineering and chemistry with a minor in energy and sustainability, is…
Forbes.com Features Op-Ed on China’s Coal Emissions by UH Energy Ambassador
Forbes.com recently featured a blog post written by chemical engineering undergraduate student and University of Houston Energy Ambassador Nairah Hashmi. In her blog post, titled “Stepping Up to Step Down Climate Change,” Hashmi…
Forbes.com Features Op-Ed by UH Energy Ambassador
Andrew Paterson, a chemical engineering doctoral student at UH Cullen College of Engineering, won the Young Investigator Award at Affinity 2015, a conference of the International Society for Molecular Recognition. He presented…
Doctoral Student Wins Young Investigator Award at Affinity 2015
A whopping 13 percent of Texas teens who took the 2015 SAT test indicated that they intended to study engineering in college. Engineering was listed as the second-most popular career choice for Texas teens — 22 percent of…
More Texas Teens Want to be Engineers When They Grow Up
The Office of Undergraduate Research’s 11th annual Undergraduate Research Day took place on Thursday, October 22nd in the Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library and the Honors College. At the event, over 175 undergraduate…
PHOTOS: 2015 Undergraduate Research Day
Each year, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) presents travel awards to outstanding students from across the nation to present their research at the annual AIChE meeting. Sashank Kasiraju, a chemical and…
Graduate Student Wins AIChE Travel Award for Biomass Research
The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, SITC, selected Gabrielle Romain, post-doctoral research fellow in the UH Cullen College of Engineering, to present her research on cancer immunotherapy at its 30th anniversary annual…
Post-doc Earns Travel Grant for Cancer Immunotherapy Research
This summer, Cullen College of Engineering doctoral students Manjesh Kumar, Matt Oleksiak and Katy Olafson were invited to give oral presentations at two of the prestigious Gordon Research Conferences (GRC). The conferences,…
Three Doctoral Students Give Oral Presentations at Gordon Research Conferences
Recent University of Houston graduate Sheli Mauck’s passion for problem solving and all things STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) began as early as elementary school. As a child, she lived near a refinery and was…
Honors College Awards Engineering Student for Outstanding Thesis
Engineering and computer science professions attract fewer women than other STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields in the United States. For more than a decade, professors at the UH Cullen College of…
G.R.A.D.E. Camp Redefines STEM Field Roles
Beginning this Fall, San Jacinto College students will be eligible for a seamless transfer into the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. San Jacinto College has signed an articulation agreement with the University…
Engineering Students Now Have Seamless Transfer Option With UH
Three Cullen College Ph.D. students received poster awards at the 2015 Southwest Catalysis Society’s spring symposium held at the University of Houston on April 24. The Southwest Catalysis Society (SWCS) is a branch of the North…
Three Students Win Poster Awards at Southwest Catalysis Society Spring Symposium
The scholarship committee for the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston is pleased to announce the TcSUH scholarship recipients for the 2015-2016 academic year, each of whom will receive a $2,500 award.…
Texas Center for Superconductivity Announces 2015-2016 Scholarship Recipients
Four graduate students from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering received prestigious Kokes Awards for the 24th North American Catalysis Society (NACS) meeting in…
Four Chemical Engineering Graduate Students Win Kokes Travel Awards