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Two faculty from the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering – assistant professor Jerrod A. Henderson, Ph.D., and lecturer Hasan Zerze, Ph.D. – have been awarded a share of a $100,000 planning…
ChBE Faculty Seek to Support Talented Low-Income Students, Build Intercollegiate Consortium with NSF Grant
Research professor Anil K. Bhowmick, Ph.D., in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has been awarded the International Rubber Conference Organisation’s (IRCO) Gold Medal for his…
ChBE’s Bhowmick Awarded by International Rubber Conference Organisation
As the world races to combat environmental degradation and climate challenges, transitioning to renewable energy has become a top priority. However, the inconsistent nature of wind, solar and other renewable sources poses a…
Boosting Clean Energy with AI-Powered Catalysts and Microwave Plasma Technologies
A Nobel-winning Biologist, Two Engineering Schools, and a Vial of Houston Rainwater Cast New Light on the Origin of Life on Earth One of the major unanswered questions about the origin of life is how droplets of RNA floating…
Life From a Drop of Rain: New Research Suggests Rainwater Helped Form the First Protocell Walls
Chemical engineering graduate student Dipayan Chakraborty has been awarded the 2024 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award for Crystallization & Evaporation for…
ChBE Graduate Student Chakraborty Earns AIChE Research Award
Team Develops Two Nasal Sprays — An Immune Activator and a New Vaccine — To Prevent Virus Transmission A team of researchers, led by the University of Houston, has discovered two new ways of preventing and treating respiratory…
University of Houston Researchers Create New Treatment and Vaccine for Flu and Various Coronaviruses
teachHOUSTON, the University of Houston’s renowned STEM teacher preparation program, has received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation to help address a STEM teacher shortage and retention crisis. The new…
UH Education Program Awarded $3 Million to Address STEM Teacher Shortage
A team of cancer researchers, led by the University of Houston, has discovered a new subset of T cells that may improve the outcome for patients treated with T-cell therapies. T cell-based immunotherapy has tremendous value to…
Optimal Cancer-Killing T Cells Discovered by Cullen researchers
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has chosen three University of Houston graduate students for its prestigious graduate research program. UH Ph.D. candidates Farzana Likhi, Caleb Broodo and Leonard Jiang were…
Cullen Grad Students Chosen for Prestigious Program
The Cullen College of Engineering recognized the hard work and efforts of its entire workforce at the 2023-24 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards, held during the Faculty-Staff Meeting on May 8. For a full gallery of photos from…
College recognizes outstanding personnel at 2023-24 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards
REMINDER! You can view the ceremony live on YouTube by click here! Replay available shortly after as well. Hello there to all friends and family of the Cullen College of Engineering's Spring 2024 graduation class! In honor of…
 2024 Cullen Spring Commencement Live Blog - Ceremony 2
REMINDER! You can view the ceremony live on YouTube by click here! Replay available shortly after as well. Hello there to all friends and family of the Cullen College of Engineering's Spring 2024 graduation class! In honor of…
 2024 Cullen Spring Commencement Live Blog - Ceremony 1
A doctoral student at the Cullen College of Engineering has earned the second place poster prize at the 28th Annual Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics (SCSB) Symposium. Kosar Rahimi is a Ph.D.…
Ph.D. candidate Rahimi wins 2nd at SCSB poster competition
The University of Houston is part of a $10 million effort from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) to help address key opportunities for innovation in biopharmaceutical manufacturing…
UH Project Selected to Join $10M Effort to Innovate Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
In the quest for more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, a multi-university research team has reached a significant milestone in capacitor technology. Researchers from the University of Houston, Jackson State University…
Cullen Researchers Explore Sustainable Future with Innovative High-Energy-Density Capacitors
The St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy held its highly anticipated spring Science Fair on April 6 at Burnet Elementary School, showcasing the innovative projects from the 2023-24 academic year of 34 students from grades 4 to 8. Rick…
St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy hosts annual Science Fair
A new, $3 million gift will help reinforce the University of Houston’s long-standing mission to provide students with a world-class education and ensure they are given every opportunity to succeed in and out of the classroom. The…
$3 Million Gift Funds New Scholarships for Working Students at UH
A professor from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering is part of a collaboration between researchers at three universities to redesign robotic hands to increase their dexterity…
ChBE's Karim co-PI on design research for robot hands
Gül H. Zerze, an assistant professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been chosen for a two-year term as an inaugural member for a new editorial board created by an academic…
ChBE's Zerze picked for inaugural JCTC board
The University of Houston is proud to announce the appointment of two distinguished professionals to key leadership roles within the Office of Technology, Transfer, and Innovation (OTTI) under the Division of Energy and…
Two Cullen professors Selected to Help Advance Technology, Innovation at UH

 


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