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Faculty Awards

Gila Stein, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award, valued at up to $500,000 over five years, to characterize and improve polymer-based solar…
Polymer Solar Cell Research Earns College Third NSF CAREER Award
Vincent Donnelly, professor in the Cullen College of Engineering’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been honored by the American Vacuum Society for his 30-plus years of plasma research. The AVS named…
Donnelly Honored for Decades of Plasma Research
The Southwest Catalysis Society, the local chapter of the North American Catalysis Society, has honored one of its founders for a lifetime of work in catalysis research and practice. James Richardson, professor emeritus of…
Richardson Honored by Catalysis Society
Dean Joseph Tedesco recognized UH Cullen College of Engineering faculty members for outstanding teaching and research during the 2010-2011 academic year at the college's Spring Faculty/Staff Meeting May 3. Demetre Economou,…
College Faculty Recognized for Teaching, Research
University of Houston professor Richard C. Willson has been named a 2010 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the…
UH Professor Richard Willson Named 2010 AAAS Fellow
For pioneering research in the areas of crystallization and protein aggregation, Peter Vekilov, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society. “This fellowship…
Professor Named Fellow of the American Physical Society
The International Symposium for Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE) has named University of Houston Professor Dan Luss the 2010 recipient of the Neal R. Amundson Award for Excellence in Chemical Reaction Engineering. One of the…
Professor Receives International Award for Chemical Reaction Engineering
Each year, the university recognizes excellence in teaching, service, research and scholarship through a variety of awards given to faculty. Presented during the 32nd Annual University of Houston Faculty Awards Ceremony April 27…
Engineering Professors Earn Honors for Teaching, Research
Much of Demetre Economou’s career has been spent ahead of the curve. He’s led the research world in atomic layer etching and developed a promising nanofabrication technique expected to give researchers the ability to mass-produce…
ChE Professor Captures Top University Honor
More than two decades of studying how gas-discharge plasmas work has earned a Cullen College of Engineering professor the honor of the University of Houston’s 2008 Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award. Demetre J. Economou…
Engineering Professor Receives Top University Research Award
Kishore Mohanty, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, will receive one of four 2008 IOR (Improved Oil Recovery) Pioneer Awards at the 15th Annual SPE/DOE Improved Oil…
Professor Recognized for Lifetime Work on Enhanced Oil Recovery
Dan Luss, Cullen Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, won the 2005 Best Fundamental Paper Award from the South Texas Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The…
UH Professor Wins Award for Chemical Reactor Design Research
Peter Vekilov, associate professor of chemical engineering, recently received the award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship at the associate professor level from the university. His nomination was submitted by Michael…
Chemical Engineering Professor Receives University Award, Welch Grant
UH Chemical Engineering Professor Demetre Economou has been selected as the 2002 recipient of the Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award "for distinguished contributions to scientific knowledge and its applications." He will be…
Economou To Give Lecture For Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award
UH Chemical Engineering Professor Demetre Economou has been selected as the 2002 recipient of the Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award "for distinguished contributions to scientific knowledge and its applications." The award, given by…
Economou Receives Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award
University of Houston engineer Ernest J. Henley has been selected to receive the 2002 Computers and Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. The award, which includes a $1,000…
UH Engineering Professor Selected for 2002 CACHE Award
Ramanan Krishnamoorti, assistant professor of chemical engineering, was among three University of Houston professors to receive the Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award. This award, which carries a $3,000 stipend and a…
Engineering Professor Ramanan Krishnamoorti Receives Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award