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Dan Coleff Senior Researcher, Ph.D. Student Recognized for Shale Research

Dan Coleff, a senior researcher with the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering Petroleum Engineering Program and Geology Ph.D. candidate at UH, has been recognized…
PHOTOS: Out of the Darkness Walk

Gray, windy weather didn’t stop hundreds of students and supporters from joining PROMES and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) on Saturday morning for the fifth…
Rockwell Distinguished Lecture Series PHOTOS: Rockwell Distinguished Lecture Series

The Cullen College of Engineering and the Rockwell Distinguished Lecture Series presented “America’s Energy Future,” a talk by Felipe Bayon from BP surrounding the future of the…
PROMES-Sponsored "Out of the Darkness" Walk Exceeds $10K Goal

With two days still left until the PROMES-sponsored “Out of the Darkness” walk, students have already raised over $11,000 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The…
Zhu Han Zhu Han Leads Electric Power Analytics Consortium

CenterPoint Energy and Direct Energy have joined the University of Houston to form the Electric Power Analytics Consortium with hopes of enhancing current models used to predict…
Dawood International Team Using Shape Memory Alloys to Rehab Concrete Structures

A team of researchers from University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering and Qatar University has won a $779,000 grant to develop a new way to rehabilitate deteriorating…
The cover of the 60th anniversary issue of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology. Plasma Etching Article Tops Journal’s “Most Read” List for Months

A paper co-written by a University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering professor has stayed at or near the top of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology’s “Most Read”…
The winners of the Ultimate Field Trip contest will receive a two-week trip to tour BP facilities in Alaska and Chicago. “The Joules of Science” Representing UH in BP Contest

A team of University of Houston undergraduates – made up of two students from the Cullen College of Engineering and one from the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics – will…
Cullen College researchers are developing a low-cost system that can send out warnings when an excavator is digging to close to a pipeline. Researchers Win $700k Grant to Develop Pipeline Safety System

Damage to natural gas pipelines is both dangerous and expensive to repair. Much of it is also entirely avoidable. Excavators cause about 30 percent of pipeline damage incidents.…
Laleh Kardar Ph.D. Works to Optimize Radiation Treatment

If you lie down on the couch and put your hand over your heart, you’ll feel your chest rise and fall with each breath. It seems trivial, but the movement of lungs expanding and…