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The October issue of CEP Magazine, published by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), is highlighting Jami Summey-Rice, a UH Cullen College chemical engineering student whose path to engineering has taken some…
Cullen College Engineering Student Profiled in National Journal
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when women in manufacturing jobs were hard to come by. It wasn’t until World War II when, faced with a depleted workforce, American women rolled up their sleeves and went to work in…
Photos: Women in Manufacturing Events Hosted at UH Engineering
Jeremy Palmer, assistant professor in the Cullen College’s chemical and biomolecular engineering department, was awarded the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund’s Doctoral New Investigator Grant. The prestigious…
UH Chemical Engineer Harnesses High Performance Computing Power to Design Improved Zeolite Catalysts
Just as the University of Houston kicks off another fall semester with expectations of record enrollment (more than 43,700 as of Friday), the Princeton Review is highlighting why more students are choosing Houston. The education…
UH Rated Among Best Colleges for Undergraduate Education by Princeton Review
Research underway in a UH Cullen College of Engineering laboratory to make “heavy water” less expensively could soon make nuclear energy safer, eliminating real-life disasters like those that have occurred at the Fukushima and…
UH Professors May Create Safe, Affordable Nuclear Energy, Changing National Conversation
Researchers have found evidence that a natural fruit extract is capable of dissolving calcium oxalate crystals, the most common component of human kidney stones. This finding could lead to the first advance in the treatment of…
Researchers Propose New Treatment to Prevent Kidney Stones
At the University of Houston, graduate students aren’t the only ones diving into research this summer. Undergraduate students are gaining hands on research experience through the UH Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF…
Undergrads Engineer the Future of Research at the Cullen College
The International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI) awarded Yuying Song, a chemical engineering doctoral student at the UH Cullen College, the 2016 Colt Refining Student Award for her work exploring catalysts made of precious…
Doctoral Student Wins Prestigious Award for Work with Precious Metals
Two students at the UH Cullen College of Engineering received scholarships from the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH (TcSUH). Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh, a materials engineering doctoral student, received the Houston…
Two UH Engineering Students Receive Texas Center for Superconductivity Scholarships
Katy Olafson, a chemical engineering doctoral student at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, received a 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE) Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award. Working with…
Chemical Doctoral Student Wins AIChE Research Award
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
Jeffrey Rimer, Ernest J. and Barbara M. Henley Associate Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the Cullen College, received the 2016 Owens Corning Early Career Award from the American Institute of Chemical…
Chemical Engineering Professor Honored with Owens Corning Early Career Award
Lars Grabow, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the Cullen College, was recently elected as second vice chair for the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) division of the American Institute of…
AIChE Elects UH Engineer as Vice Chair for Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
Ramanan Krishnamoorti, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, was recently elected as a Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA). He was…
Neutron Scattering Society of America Elects UH Engineer as 2016 Fellow
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
Chemical engineering alumnus Mike Piwetz and his wife Mary Jo Piwetz will establish a $50,000 endowed scholarship for chemical engineering students at the UH Cullen College of Engineering in 2017. This endowment follows a similar…
Alumnus Establishes $50K Endowed Scholarship for UH Chemical Engineering Students
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
The UH Cullen College of Engineering is well on its way to becoming a Top 50 engineering college in the nation, earning a coveted spot on the list of the Best Engineering Schools of 2017 by U.S. News and World Report. The Cullen…
UH Engineering Climbs U.S. News Rankings, Earns Spot on List of Nation's Best Schools
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

 


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