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Debora Rodrigues, left, and Stacey Louie, both faculty members in the Cullen College of Engineering, are using a reactor built to simulate the intestines of a pig to study ways to combat antibiotic resistance. Can Nanoparticles Be Used to Lower Antibiotic Resistance?

UH Engineers Are Testing a Theory with Livestock Microbiome Antibiotic resistance is one of the world’s most serious threats to public health, forcing the use of medications… Read More
Drought impacts large swathes of Texas on a regular basis creating water-stressed situations. Solving Texas Water Problems: One Project At A Time

UH Researchers Receive Grants from the Texas Hazardous Waste Research Center Texas has water issues. Massive flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey nearly drowned Houston and other… Read More
Researchers Design ‘Soft’ Robots that Can Move on Their Own Researchers Design ‘Soft’ Robots that Can Move on Their Own

Robots Could be Used in Medicine, Rescue and Defense If Star Wars’ R2-D2 is your idea of a robot, think again. Researchers led by a University of Houston engineer have reported a… Read More
Zhu Han, a UH engineering professor, is working on a $7.5 million DoD grant project using game theory to analyze and influence social behavior. UH Engineer Part of Team Awarded $7.5 Million MURI Grant to Analyze Social Behavior and Predict Outcomes

It’s no secret that data is everywhere today – endless streams of information are constantly being collected through our smartphones and mobile devices, by sensors placed on… Read More
University of Houston chemical and biomolecular engineering researcher Mehmet Orman is investigating bacterial cells, called persisters, that won’t die when antibiotics hit them. Researcher Takes New Approach to Antibiotic Tolerance

Wins National Award to Further Research With a perfect score on his research proposal, chemical and biomolecular engineering researcher Mehmet Orman received the National… Read More
Venkat Selvamanickam, MD Anderson Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston Researchers Seek to Improve Quality Control for Nanomanufacturing

New Monitoring Tool Would Be Able To Detect Imperfections Almost Instantaneously Researchers from the University of Houston are developing a new quality control tool for… Read More
Debora Rodrigues,associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UH Cullen College, is part of an international team studying bacteria-fungi interaction. Bacteria-fungi interaction may lead to improvements in crop production, sustainable energy

UH researcher receives DOE grant to study fundamental interactions While microorganism like bacteria and fungi have co-existed for eons, there is still much to discover about… Read More
Nature features University of Houston Professor Jose Contreras-Vidal, known for his work to improve prostheses using brain-machine interfaces. Nature Magazine Features UH Professor’s Work to Address Paralysis

Groundbreaking brain-machine interfacing with prostheses highlighted About 3.5 million people in America are living with some degree of paralysis related to stroke, multiple… Read More
Yan Yao, a University of Houston engineering professor, wins a Scialog award for his work with batteries. Battery Expert Powers Up With a Scialog Award

When it comes to batteries, UH engineer Yan Yao never runs out of award-winning ideas. Yao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College… Read More
UH engineering researchers made Angewandte Chemie International Edition From Exploding Hoverboards to Tomorrow’s Batteries: UH engineering team lands on front cover of prestigious publication

Yan Yao Receives Scialog Award A paper about safer batteries made with organic materials written by a team of researchers at the UH Cullen College of Engineering made the cover of… Read More

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