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The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce 12 hirings in a variety of departments and roles for the 2022-23 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, all start dates are Sept. 1. Personnel is sorted alphabetically by…
Cullen adds 13 professionals to its ranks
Review Concludes Big Data Rocks, Pushing Formation of Crystals Forward If science and nature were to have a baby, it would surely be the zeolite. This special rock, with its porous structure that traps water inside, also traps…
Building the Best Zeolite
Manipulating solid particles of a few micrometers in size using an electric field has been of great interest to physicists. These controllable particles can be assembled into dynamic chains that can effectively control the flow…
Complex Coacervate Droplets as a Model Material for Studying the Electrodynamic Response and Manipulation of Biological Materials
The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce that the following eight members of the faculty have been promoted for the 2022-23 academic year. All promotions take effect as of Sept. 1, 2022. This listing is alphabetical…
Cullen announces 8 promotions for Fall 2022
The Cullen College of Engineering and Dr. Joseph W. Tedesco, Ph.D., P.E., the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Endowed Chair and Dean, are pleased to share the 2021-22 Faculty and Student Excellence Award winners. The initial announcement…
Cullen recognizes efforts of faculty, students with 2021-22 Excellence Awards
Four professors at the Cullen College of Engineering have been recognized for their exemplary work via the 2022 Faculty and Staff Awards, administered by the University of Houston's Office of the Provost. Roberto Ballarini,…
Four Cullen professors honored with UH awards
The graduate level programs Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering improved the most year-to-year, according to the latest rankings edition of U.S. News…
ME, IE grad programs improve in latest U.S. News & World Report rankings
UH Researcher Receives $2M Grant to Innovate Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Breast Cancer With a $2 million recruitment grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), a University of Houston…
Finding Drugs for Formerly Undruggable Cancer Targets
The Engineering Alumni Association (EAA) hosted another successful event on Feb. 22, as the 2022 Engineers Week Awards program recognized 50 students for their accomplishments. Since 2004, the EAA and industry donors have come…
EAA recognizes 50 students for academic achievements, leadership
The research developments coming from the Single-Cell Lab of Navin Varadarajan, M.D. Anderson Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, have been recognized again with his…
Varadarajan praises work of students, collaborators for NAI Senior Member status
Reflecting the organization's commitment to the community, the Dow Promise Program has awarded a $10,000 grant to the University of Houston branch of the National Society of Black Engineers, to partner with the Blodgett Urban…
UH NSBE receives $10k grant for community garden revamp
A research professor at the Cullen College of Engineering has received a federal grant for about $700,000 to develop a rapid screening test for a specific form of leukemia that has severe health risks without prompt detection.…
Kourentzi receives 1st federal grant as lead, to develop test for leukemia
When Le Shorn Benjamin, Ph.D. initially saw the advertisement for a postdoctoral associate role focused on Engineering Education with Jerrod Henderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of…
Benjamin receives inaugural ASEE Engineering Post Doctoral Fellowship
According to an updated paper from researchers at Stanford University, 46 past and present professors affiliated with the Cullen College of Engineering are among the Top 2 percent of cited research papers in the world. The…
Paper finds 46 Cullen College professors among Most-Cited
At 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…
Engineering Faculty Celebrated As Part Of 50-in-5 Achievements
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…
ChBE Chair Mountziaris honored with AIChE's Thomas Baron Award
For 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…
Opportunities, community at UH allow ChBE's Koehler to flourish
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…
Bhowmick honored with 2022 Melvin Mooney Award from ACS
It 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…
Mapping the Complexity of T Cells to Improve Immunotherapy
A 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…
Kim, Agrawal recognized by Axalta Bright Futures program

 


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