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"Out of the Darkness" Walk for Suicide Prevention April 17, 2013 On April 6, 2013, the UH Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies (PROMES) sponsored the 4th Annual Out of the Darkness Campus Walk at Lynn Eusan Park. The student-led event benefits the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and is just one of many events that take place nationwide. PROMES serves as the UH event's sponsor organization, and many volunteers come from the PROMES community. |
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Q&A With Dr. Bonnie Dunbar March 25, 2013 The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is proud to present our Q&A with Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., NAE. This video serves as a special supplement to the print version of our Q&A session with Dr. Dunbar, which can be found in our Spring 2013 issue of Parameters. Dunbar is a retired astronaut, National Academy of Engineering Member and alumna of the Cullen College of Engineering. She now returns to UH to serve as the leader of the University of Houston STEM Center as well as professor in the college's mechanical and biomedical engineering departments. To learn more about the UH STEM Center, please visit: |
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Making Waves: Understanding the Brain Through Dance & Engineering May 13, 2013 Professional dancers are working with researchers from the University of Houston and the University of Maryland, College Park inside UH's Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory to study brainwave patterns and transform them into tools to give new life to people with physical challenges, like spinal cord injuries. The project is the result of a unique, creative collaboration between UH electrical and computer engineering professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal and UMCP theatre, dance and performance professor Karen Bradley. |
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UH Awards Top Faculty Honor to Mike Harold April 29, 2013 Mike Harold, the M.D. Anderson Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been awarded the University of Houston 2013 Esther Farfel Award. The honor is a symbol of overall career excellence and is the highest award UH bestows on a faculty member. Harold was presented with the Farfel Award recently at an awards banquet, where other faculty members were honored for excellence in teaching, advising, research and scholarship. |
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Did LiDAR Uncover the Lost City? November 28, 2012 Researchers from the University of Houston’s National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), a collaborative program between UH and the University of California at Berkeley, routinely take to the skies to better understand the ground below using LiDAR, or light detecting and ranging technology. “LiDAR is a fairly new technology that sends LiDAR pulses from the airplane to the ground as your plane is flying,” said Ramesh Shrestha, profressor of civil and environmental engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering. |
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Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton Making Strides November 13, 2012 Steve Holbert was paralyzed in a dirt bike accident in late 2009. “I broke five vertebrae and injured my spinal cord and have been paralyzed ever since,” said Holbert. His hope is to completely recover from his spinal cord injury and one day walk again. That’s why he’s agreed to participate in the research of Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering and director of the Laboratory for Non-invasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems. Contreras-Vidal is working on a brain-machine interface (BMI) that would allow patients like Holbert to control prosthetic limbs through their own thoughts. Holbert’s is testing a self-balancing lower limb exoskeleton. |
