The University of Houston welcomed former president of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to its campus this week. Kalam, who served as president from 2002 to 2007, met with officials and toured many of the university’s top research facilities, including the UH Nanofabrication Facility.While there he spoke with Nanofabrication Facility Director Dmitri Litvinov, a professor in the Cullen College’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “President Kalam himself is an educator and engineer, and he has a long history of supporting the sciences. It was an honor to welcome him to our lab and discuss our work with him,” said Litvinov.