Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and Rep. John Culberson (R-Houston) will be on campus at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18, to announce federal funding for the new Alliance for NanoHealth, of which the University of Houston is a founding member. The alliance, a coalition of five Houston research institutions, has been awarded $2.8 million in federal funds as part of the recently approved Department of Defense’s appropriations bill. Hutchison and Culberson led the way in acquiring this money along with Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Sugar Land).