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…
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…
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…
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…
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 of…
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…
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…
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 of…
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…
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…
Two faculty members of the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering were honored recently as members of the inaugural class of charter fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
Dan Luss, Cullen Professor of…
Zeolites play an important role in the chemical and petroleum industries. These crystalline materials are used as catalysts that set in motion and/or improve chemical processes that create thousands of commercial and consumer…
Matthew Oleksiak, a graduate student in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was awarded the 2013 Richard J. Kokes Travel Award from the North American Catalysis Society (NACS) to attend the upcoming NACS…
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a grant that will help dozens of young researchers from around the country attend an upcoming conference on chemical reaction engineering.
The National Science…
Michael Economides, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the Cullen College, was featured on Fox Business on March 6 to discuss the future of Venezuela and oil production.
University of Houston President Renu Khator has named Dow Chair Professor Ramanan Krishnamoorti as a special assistant to the president/chancellor for UH Energy, a collection of the university’s preeminent energy research and…
Alexandra Lupulescu, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Houston Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was selected as the winner of the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division Poster Competition held during…
A professor with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won his second major cancer research grant in four months, giving him a total of nearly $3.4 million to help develop cutting-edge treatments for the…
The University of Houston Chem-E Car team competed at the 2012 AIChE National Competition recently, taking fifth place, the highest that UH has achieved at the national level.
Students representing UH were An Dinh (team lead),…
Graduate students and faculty members with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have found a way to turn bacteria’s infection process into something that can actually benefit humans.
Their work appeared in a…
For more Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering archived news, click here.
For more events, visit the Cullen College of Engineering's Calendar.
Click here to view Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering's Transport Newsletter.
