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Coursera, a leading massive open online course (MOOC) platform, today announced that it will be working with the University of Houston System and nine other state university systems and public university flagships to explore the…
Ten State University Systems and Public Flagships, including UH System, Join Coursera to Explore MOOC-based Learning and Collaboration on Campus
Indranil Mitra, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering, was selected for the Fifteenth National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering. This two-week program is held in August at Argonne National Laboratory…
ChBE Graduate Students Selected for National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering
Ask any professor: A good idea alone isn’t likely to receive serious research funding. Big awards almost always have some data that supports the project, that shows the researcher’s idea should work. In a classic catch-22, though…
UH Seed Funding Supports New Research in Catalysis, Nanofabrication
Professor Michael Economides in the UH Cullen College of Engineering's department of chemical and biomolecular engineering contributed an article titled "The president's legacy on energy" to The Hill's Congress Blog, published on…
ChBE's Michael Economides Writes The Hill's Congress Blog: "The President's Legacy on Energy"
This month, Dean Joseph Tedesco announced the 2013 winners of the UH Cullen College of Engineering faculty awards, in recognition of outstanding performance in teaching, research and service. Karolos Grigoriadis, Professor of…
Cullen College Honors Faculty for Excellence in Teaching and Research
Two graduate students in the UH department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering won awards at the annual meeting of the southwest regional chapter of the North American Catalysis Society, held at Rice University on April 26.…
ChBE Graduate Students Win Presentation Awards
The 2013 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala will be held at the Petroleum Club of Houston on Thursday, June 13, 2013. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association, recognizes the professional…
UH EAA Honors Distinguished Alumni, Faculty
Congratulations, Cullen College of Engineering grads!! View photos from last Saturday's commencement at our Flickr page.
Photos: UH Cullen College of Engineering Commencement!
Earlier this week, the University of Houston hosted a panel discussion at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) which focused on our success in working with the energy industry to establish the popular undergraduate petroleum…
UH Offshore Technology Conference Featured in FuelFix
The University of Houston will be live streaming this Saturday's commencement for the Cullen College of Engineering. The spring 2013 engineering commencement will take place this Saturday, May 11th, 9:00am to 11:00am at the…
Watch This Saturday's Commencement From Your Computer!
The University of Houston’s success in working with the energy industry to establish its popular undergraduate petroleum engineering program will be the focus of a panel discussion next week at the Offshore Technology Conference…
UH Hosts Panel Discussion at Offshore Technology Conference
Continuing its commitment to education at the University of Houston, ConocoPhillips is donating $1 million to UH’s growing Energy Research Park (ERP) and $125,000 to various engineering, science and business programs. The $1…
ConocoPhillips Donates Over $1 Million to UH
Katy Olafson, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering and co-advised by Drs. Peter Vekilov and Jeffrey Rimer, has been awarded a one-year predoctoral fellowship in the Gulf Coast Consortia/W.M. Keck Center for…
PhD Candidate Olafson Selected for Keck Predoctoral Fellowship
We can all breathe a little easier with Mike Harold around. That’s not a cliché. Harold, professor and chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, has spent much…
Harold Wins UH’s Highest Faculty Honor
The Cullen College of Engineering shined at last night’s University of Houston Faculty Awards Banquet, with college professors taking home five research and scholarship awards, the career teaching award and the university’s…
Engineering Takes Top Honors At Faculty Awards Ceremony
A professor with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance to help develop one of the most promising therapies for patients with the disease. Navin Varadarajan, an…
Professor Wins MRA Young Investigator Award to Study Cutting-Edge Cancer Treatment
As the end of the spring semester approaches, members of the class of 2013 are preparing to transition into the full-time workforce. Engineering graduates will apply the technical skills learned in the lectures and labs of the…
The Engineering Career Search
The University of Houston -- and particularly the Cullen College of Engineering -- have taken bold and progressive steps in partnering with local industry and taking advantage of the university's location in the "Energy Capital…
UH Creates New Energy & Sustainability Minor
The undergraduate Petroleum Engineering Program at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has been highlighted as a model partnership between industry and academia by the Business-Higher Education Forum. The…
Petroleum Engineering Program Lauded for Business/Higher-Ed Collaboration
Thanks to a recent grant from NASA, a University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering professor’s theories on crystal formation will be tested onboard the International Space Station. Professor of chemical and biomolecular…
Professor’s Crystal Formation Theories to be Tested in Space

 


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