Shih Wins College's Fourth CAREER Award of 2012
Assistant Professor Wei-Chuan Shih has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, making him the fourth professor with the UH Cullen College of Engineering to do so this year. Shih won the five-year, $400,000 grant to develop a new method to rapidly identify, count and profile bacteria with minimal sample preparation — a capability that would be incredibly useful in medical diagnostics, national security and food and environmental safety.
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PNAS Article Outlines Efforts to Study HIV Immune Response
A researcher with the UH Cullen College of Engineering has published an article in one of the nation's foremost scientific journals outlining successful efforts to rapidly identify and characterize immune system cells that fight HIV. The article by Navin Varadarajan, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was published in the March 6 issue of the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Engineering Undergrads Represent UH in Energy Innovation Challenge
A team of four undergraduates in the UH Cullen College of Engineering have been named semi-finalists for the MIT Clean Energy Prize, an energy innovation competition. This is the first time that UH has been represented in the business plan challenge. Mechanical engineering majors Mario Laposse, Eduardo Jasso, Andres Paez and John Vu developed several ideas in the category of Deployment and Infrastructure, choosing carbon sequestration as the most viable. Their company, Envir Energy, aims to solve cost assessment problems in carbon capture, transportation and storage systems by commercializing new methods in carbon sequestration.
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Engineering Alums Create Online Social Marketplace
It started as a conversation among friends, about a common issue of college life: the price of textbooks. As undergraduates, Ade Adesanya (BSEE '11) and Eric Imasogie (BSIE '10) developed the idea of giving other college students an online space to post items they need. The idea was based loosely on the concept of crowdfunding. The business idea grew to become givepals.com, a social site in which users can create a profile and list what they want to buy, sell or trade, from cell phones to textbooks to furniture and beyond.
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