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Ten State University Systems and Public Flagships, including UH System, Join Coursera to Explore MOOC-based Learning and Collaboration on Campus

Coursera, a leading massive open online course (MOOC) platform, today announced that it will be working with the University of Houston System and nine other state university…
Indranil Mitra and Nikhila Mahadevapuram ChBE Graduate Students Selected for National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering

Indranil Mitra, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering, was selected for the Fifteenth National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering. This two-week program…
Members of the College's biomedical engineering department met with Turkish government officials at a recent gathering in Houston. BME Faculty Meet with Turkish Health Minister

Members of the biomedical engineering department at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering met with Turkey’s Minister of Health during his recent visit to Houston…
'UH Mappers Help Find Lost World': Cullen College Professor Featured in Houston Chronicle "UH Mappers Help Find Lost World": Cullen College Professor Featured in Houston Chronicle

A team of UH Cullen College of Engineering researchers who helped uncover a lost world in the rainforests of Honduras were featured in the Houston Chronicle today. The research…
ECE Professor's Thought-Controlled Robot-Exoskeleton Featured in "Der Spiegel"

German news magazine Der Spiegel -- one of Europe's largest publications of its kind -- featured the incredible research of professor Jose Luis "Pepe" Contreras-Vidal, who has…
Selvamanickam Professor Helping Develop Alternative Energy Storage Device

If you don’t like the weather, give it a few minutes and it’ll change. That bit of homespun wisdom is actually a big problem for the renewable energy industry. The amount of…
BME Senior to Compete in National HOSA Competition

Tony Roshan, a biomedical engineering senior, is a finalist in the Texas Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) Healthcare Issues Exam, held during the state conference…
The “dynamic coil” being developed by Cullen College researchers was featured on the Cover of IEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. “Dynamic Coil” Should Boost Brain Research

Efforts to learn how and when particular areas of the brain work and work together should get a huge boost thanks to a new device under development at the University of Houston…
Economou UH Seed Funding Supports New Research in Catalysis, Nanofabrication

Ask any professor: A good idea alone isn’t likely to receive serious research funding. Big awards almost always have some data that supports the project, that shows the researcher…
ChBE's Michael Economides Writes The Hill's Congress Blog: "The President's Legacy on Energy"

Professor Michael Economides in the UH Cullen College of Engineering's department of chemical and biomolecular engineering contributed an article titled "The president's legacy on…