News
June 27, 2018
Focus on joint research and competitive education for students
The University of Houston recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE), declared by the Indian… |
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May 11, 2018 The UH Cullen College of Engineering's biannual Parameters magazine earned the American Marketing Association's (AMA) Crystal Award for best public relations/communications newsletter. Finalists in the category included UH's… |
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May 2, 2018
NSF-Funded Work Holds Promise for Health Care, Energy, Other Fields
Crystal formation is key to fields as disparate as drug design, biomedical diagnostics and petrochemical production, but significant questions remain about… |
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April 25, 2018 UH Engineer Says DOE-Funded Work Will Capture Methane, Other Emissions
Thanks to advances in drilling technology, there is enough natural gas in the U.S. to last well into next century and beyond. This has renewed the idea of… |
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April 24, 2018
Conrad and Yao sweep 'Associate Professor' category
The Cullen College of Engineering faculty swept the associate professor category of the University of Houston’s Awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative… |
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April 24, 2018 Jacinta Conrad, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, coauthored an editorial titled “For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow?” published in April in the… |
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April 10, 2018 Distinguished chemical engineer and BASF executive Heidi Alderman will be the featured speaker at the UH Cullen College of Engineering 2018 commencement on Friday, May 11.
Alderman - who currently serves as senior vice president… |
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April 4, 2018
Wins National Award to Further Research
With a perfect score on his research proposal, chemical and biomolecular engineering researcher Mehmet Orman received the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)… |
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March 28, 2018 The Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston was a happening place this weekend — rockets launched into the sky with great puffs of smoke, robots performed amazing feats, and propeller-powered cars raced down… |
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March 26, 2018
NSF-Funded Project Targets African-American, Latino Boys
Both the medium and the message are STEM – encouraging fourth and fifth-grade African-American and Latino boys to embrace the cool factor of science, technology,… |
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March 21, 2018 The UH Cullen College of Engineering is several steps closer to landing a spot among the Top 50 engineering colleges in America.
The 2019 U.S. News and World Report rankings place the Cullen College on the list of the Best… |
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March 1, 2018 A Cullen College of Engineering professor, who is working to improve treatments for battling cancer, received a grant from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), the organization that funds… |
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February 23, 2018 President Trump’s budget for the next fiscal year proposes a number of cuts, including defunding the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (USCSB). The non-partisan, independent body assesses chemical accidents — such as the West Fertilizer… |
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February 20, 2018
Every academic year, the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering celebrates student academic achievement by choosing an Outstanding Senior and an Outstanding Junior. Not only do the chosen represent hard work and… |
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February 6, 2018 Students at the UH Cullen College of Engineering aren't just expected to do well in their labs and classes -- engineering students are expected to work in their respective fields of study while pursuing their degrees in order to… |
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February 2, 2018 An engineer from the University of Houston known for his groundbreaking work in crystal engineering has received the 2018 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research.
Jeffrey Rimer, associate professor of chemical and… |
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December 19, 2017 The UH Cullen College of Engineering held its fall convocation ceremony on Thursday, December 14, recognizing nearly 450 graduating students at the Bayou City Events Center. The ceremony featured a keynote address from UH alumna… |
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December 8, 2017 Work at UH Has Implications for Subsea Design and Operations
A team of researchers from the University of Houston is working with the oil industry to develop new ways to predict when an offshore drilling rig is at risk for a… |
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December 5, 2017 Life as a college student is fraught with challenges: keeping up with classes, making new friends, learning new fields of study and working jobs and internships. But imagine also having to learn a new language and adjust to a… |
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November 20, 2017 How do you describe materials that aren’t quite liquids, gases or solids? More importantly, how do you model these materials?
That’s a big question for scientists and engineers who toil in the world of complex fluids, which… |
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