NSF Grant to Fund Programs Boosting Interest, Pursuit of STEM Fields
(August 27, 2009) The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Houston a five-year, $2 million grant to support programs for recruiting and retaining students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. The second grant the Cullen College has received through NSF's Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP), the funding will support six initiatives at the Cullen College including a summer camp for upper-level high school students as well as research opportunities for incoming college freshman. Read More
NIH to Fund UH Study on Visual Perception
(August 5, 2009) Haluk Ogmen, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is collaborating with Harold Bedell from the UH College of Optometry on a two-year, $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study visual perception. The researchers have developed a series of psychophysical experiments to pinpoint exactly how the objects we see are represented in higher levels of the brain. Read More
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