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Akash Gupta, a research scientist known for developing advanced delivery systems for cancer immunotherapies while working at MIT, will join the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering William A. Brookshire Department…
Cancer Research Innovator Joins Cullen to Develop Immunotherapies for Lung Cancer
Seven University of Houston faculty members, including four from the Cullen College of Engineering, have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors — the most of any single Texas institution this year. The…
Four Cullen Professors Named Senior Members of National Academy of Inventors
Assistant Professor Jerrod Henderson of the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ 2025 William W. Grimes Award, which recognizes “a…
ChBE’s Henderson Receives 2025 AIChE William W. Grimes Award
Addressing the staggering power and energy demands of artificial intelligence, engineers at the University of Houston have developed a revolutionary new thin-film material that promises to make AI devices significantly faster…
Led by ChBE’s Karim, Cullen Engineers Making AI Faster, Reducing Power Consumption
The University of Houston Innovation Council capitalized on Houston’s thriving entrepreneurial spirit in a first-of-its-kind event, bringing together entrepreneurs from around the region to share their success stories while…
Innovation Council Hosts Inaugural Panel Event With Cullen Support
Frank M Tiller Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Jacinta Conrad, PI, has received $259,749 in NSF funding for her proposal, Collaborative Research: Effect of Polymer…
ChBE’s Conrad Receives $250,000 for Polyelectrolyte Brush Investigation
“Authentic Community-Engaged Scholarship in STEM Education Postdoc Training Program,” a project led by principal investigator and William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering assistant professor…
ChBE’s Henderson’s $1.2M Engineering Educator Training Program Welcomes Co-PIs and 3 New Postdocs
In the rapidly evolving robotics industry, today’s robots that might appear humanlike and dexterous still can’t do what people do, lacking the ability to perform fine manipulation tasks required in factories, homes, hospitals and…
ChBE’s Karim Assists in Designing Robotic Hands for Use in Health, Agriculture, Manufacturing
Chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate Elvis Enebeli was awarded third place in the 2025 National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) 3-Minute Rundown (3MR) Competition…
ChBE PhD Enebeli Places 3rd at NOBCChE 3MR Competition
From creating flexible gadgets to better medicines, the art of bending crystals is reshaping technology and health, and at the University of Houston a crystals expert makes it look almost like a magic trick. Jeffrey Rimer,…
Opening Doors to Smarter Devices and Safer Drugs, ChBE’s Rimer Controls Crystal Formation
Two chemical engineering Ph.D. students, Syed Ahsan Imam and Dhagash Mehul Pandit, have been awarded first place in the fourth annual Chevron Energy Innovation Competition for their proposal of a novel method for ethylene…
ChBE’s Imam and Pandit Take First in 2025 Chevron Energy Innovation Competition
Sribala Gorugantu, Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is “very excited” to mark the start of the fall semester and is…
ChBE’s Gorugantu: Assistant Professorship and The Future of Circular Plastics
Leveraging the University of Houston’s strengths in biomedical research and education, the Texas Medical Center, with its world-class hospitals, clinical and research programs, is partnering with UH to expand opportunities for…
UH, Cullen Collaborates with Texas Medical Center Institutions to Train Next Generation of Kidney, Blood Disorder Researchers
The University of Houston is a national leader in vision science, receiving more National Eye Institute research funding than any other institution in Texas and placing among the top 10 recipients nationwide. With 29 active NEI-…
UH Leads Texas in National Eye Institute Research Funding, With Help From Cullen
A team of researchers from the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering has discovered and measured the fraction of an electron that…
UH, UMN Energy Researchers Discover the Part of an Electron that Drives Catalysis
For Steven F. Stanley, the importance of the doctorate he earned at the University of Houston and its effect on his career goals can’t be overstated. It’s partly because of this transformative effect that he has given back to the…
ChBE alum Stanley thanks mentors, stresses importance of giving back
Justice Akuchie, who graduated from the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 2004, has worked at Shell for the last 13 years after starting…
ChBE Alum, Shell Project Engineer Akuchie Reflects on UH Start
When Sankaran Sundaresan shifted to emeritus status at Princeton University in July, it marked a new phase in his professional life after 45 years — work that began after he earned his doctorate in chemical engineering at the…
Princeton’s Sundar reflects on Cullen degree, experience
A deep passion for learning, and the strength of the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, are some of the key reasons why Lawrence “Larry” Dooling made the trip across the country…
ChBE’s Dooling excited to settle in at UH with immune cell engineering grant
Manasa Yerragunta, a Chemical Engineering doctoral candidate, was honored at last month’s 2025 Student Employee of the Year Awards Luncheon as the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Leadership Award. Hosted by University Career…
PhD Candidate Yerragunta Recognized with 2025 Outstanding Leadership Award

 


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