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Vats, in a striped shirt at far right, stands with two other officials at ACS Fall 2026. One of them is handing Vats an award certificate. MSE’s Vats Receives ACS Polymers Au Best Poster Award

Materials Science & Engineering doctoral researcher Sushipra Vats recently received the ACS Polymers Au Best Poster Award at ACS Fall 2026 in Chicago, Illinois for his poster… Read More
[Left to right] The 2026 Houston Innovation Panel featured Sangtae Kim, professor of chemical & biomolecular engineering at Cullen, who is also a former pharmaceutical executive and a member of the National Academy of Engineering; Sassie Duggleby, CEO and co-founder of Venus Aerospace; Alex Landon, the director of the Cullen Honors Program and a professor of practice at Cullen; and Nicolaus Radford, CEO of Persona AI. UH Innovation Council Hosts Second LEAP Innovation Panel

Following the success of the inaugural The Leap: Houston Innovation Panel in 2025, the University of Houston Innovation Council (UHIC) hosted Leap Innovation 2026 on October 8,… Read More
Abiral Dangol is a rising junior in mechanical engineering at UH, and a member of the Honors College. His work explores how advanced sensing technology could help improve the monitoring of offshore platform foundations. Student Spotlight: Abiral Dangol

Abiral Dangol is a rising junior in mechanical engineering at UH and a member of the Honors College. His work explores how advanced sensing technology could help improve the… Read More
Salvador Gonzalez. Five UH IDEAS² Students Complete NASA JSC Summer Internships

Five University of Houston graduate students affiliated with the NASA MIRO Inflatable Deployable Environments and Adaptive Space Systems (IDEAS²) Center completed summer… Read More
[Left to right] Professor Mim Rahimi and former UH Ph.D. student Ahmad Hassan, currently at Harvard University as a postdoctoral associate, detailed Small Modular Electrochemical Containers (SMECs) in a study published in Environmental Science & Technology. SMECs are designed to fit inside standard shipping containers and to eliminate the need for some of the larger, more expensive equipment used in conventional carbon capture systems. CEE’s Rahimi, grad Hassan Develop Compact Carbon Capture Technology to Support Growing AI Infrastructure

Key Takeaways Compact carbon capture technology: University of Houston researchers have developed a carbon capture system designed to fit inside 40-foot shipping containers,… Read More
The Repurposing Offshore Infrastructure for Continued Energy (ROICE) program at the University of Houston has been awarded approximately $750,000 by the Gulf Research Program - a part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - to establish a workforce academy focused on preparing skilled technical workers for the growing field of offshore decommissioning in the Gulf region. UH’s ROICE Program Awarded $750k Grant for to Establish Workforce Academy for Gulf Region

The Repurposing Offshore Infrastructure for Continued Energy (ROICE) program at the University of Houston has been awarded approximately $750,000 by the Gulf Research Program — a… Read More
Kailai Wang, an assistant professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a 2026 Early-Career Research Fellowship by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program. ISE’s Wang Selected for National Academies’ Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship

Kailai Wang, an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a 2026… Read More
Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, an assistant professor of Biotechnology in the Engineering Technology Department, has earned a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture for a new center that will use AI to support biotechnology in food systems. ET’s Chitrala earns USDA grant for AI support of food systems biotechnology

Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, an assistant professor of Biotechnology in the Engineering Technology Department, has earned a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture… Read More
A group of people stands in front of a red background. Many of them are wearing Cougar Red shirts; Jerrod Henderson stands in the front row wearing a light blue shirt. Cullen Welcomes Inaugural ACES in STEM Education Fellows

Last year, principal investigator and William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering assistant professor Jerrod A. Henderson and Co-PIs David Horton,… Read More
A woman with dark brown skin and dark, braided hair poses in front of a grassy, outdoor scene. She wears a multi-colored top and is shown from the chest up. EE Ph.D. Diabate Wins Typhoon HIL Best Paper Award

Research assistant and electrical engineering Ph.D. candidate Massiagbe Diabate has received the Typhoon HIL Best Paper Award United States 2026 for her paper, “Optimal Design and… Read More