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Eleven different University of Houston students were honored with scholarships at the annual American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects holiday dinner, including nine from the Cullen College of Engineering. ASIE is a…
9 Cullen students honored at ASIE holiday dinner
A University of Houston-affiliated project that has the potential to transform sustainable fuel production was selected to receive $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Led by…
Cullen professors, alum revolutionizing tech to produce sustainable fuel
Two doctoral candidates at the Cullen College of Engineering have been recognized for their research work with student awards from the Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Forum (PD2M). Sreyashi Ghosh and…
Ghosh, Chakraborty earn AIChE's PD2M student awards
Jerrod A. Henderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the 2024 winner of the Inclusive Excellence in Teaching Award from Excellence in Diversity…
ChBE's Henderson earns teaching award from EDIIE
Two new grants from the National Science Foundation to the Cullen College of Engineering are set to break down barriers that prevent low-income and underrepresented students from pursuing STEM education, helping to build a more…
New Grants Fuel STEM Education Equity in Houston
$2.5 Million Fast-Track Grant to Develop Analysis of Single Cells University of Houston researchers and their students are developing a new software technology, based on artificial intelligence, for advancing cell-based…
AI Drives Development of Cancer Fighting Software
NASA is awarding the University of Houston $1.2 million to grow diversity initiatives in STEM and aerospace-related engineering fields and address barriers to access and success for historically underserved and underrepresented…
NASA Awards UH $1.2 Million to Strengthen Diversity in STEM and Aerospace Engineering
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

 


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