UH Engineering Professor, Virginia Tech Alumna Pauses to Remember Victims
(April 20, 2007) Julie Trenor, instructional and research assistant professor and director of undergraduate recruitment and retention at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, attended a special candle light vigil last night outside of the UH M.D. Anderson Library in remembrance of Monday's tragedy at Virginia Tech. She is a 2001 Ph.D. Virginia Tech graduate and was a visiting faculty member during the 2003-2004 academic year. Trenor's husband Scott (pictured) also graduated from the university with graduate degrees in 2001 and 2004.

Senator Hutchison Commends UH-Led Effort to Bring Wind Facility to Texas
(April 5, 2007) Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison visited the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering on Tuesday, April 3, to hold a press conference for the purpose of announcing new renewable energy legislation and to commend a UH-led effort to bring the Department of Energy's Large Wind Turbine Testing Facility to Texas. Hutchison's new piece of legislation is called the Creating Renewable Energy through Science and Technology (CREST) Act, which provides funding for renewable energy research and development through the Council on Renewable Energies (CORE).

Watch Video