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Civil Engineering Student Delivers Award-Winning Elevator Pitch

Jingjing Fan, a graduate student in the Cullen College's civil and environmental engineering department, delivered an award-winning elevator pitch at the Sustainable…
Novel Neural Probe Helps to Unlock Mysteries of the Brain

In April of 2013, President Obama announced the launch of the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative, an ambitious “grand challenge”…
Hieu Doan Ph.D. Student's Poster Receives Honors at Gordon Research Conference

Last year, a professor and student in the Cullen College’s chemical engineering department published an article in the journal Science that revealed the secrets behind gold’s…
PHOTOS: Pi Tau Sigma Hosts "Engineering 101"

In a growing effort to build relationships between the Cullen College of Engineering and local schools, Pi Tau Sigma hosted a group of 50 grade school students from Gregg…
UH Students Revving Up for Shell Eco-Marathon UH Students Revving Up for Shell Eco-Marathon

In the end, it’s all about the cars. But for students from the University of Houston and Elsik High School, the path to the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas 2015 has offered much more…
Two Engineering Professors Earn NSF CAREER Awards

Two professors in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston earned Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards from the National Science…
Art and Science Come Together on the Dance Floor

Becky Valls is racing an unseen enemy, trench coat and bare feet adding to the sense of urgency. Music by Ravi Shankar drives an almost unbearable tension as she runs, swoops and…
PHOTOS: Spring Career Fair Draws Throngs of Recruiters, Students

The Engineering Career Fair attracted employers from all over southeast Texas to the UH campus in order to meet and recruit Cullen College of Engineering students. The event,…
VIDEO: MREB Construction Captured on Live-Stream Video

The University of Houston broke ground on the new Multidisciplinary Research and Engineering Building (MREB) in October, and construction is now fully underway for the state-of-…
PHOTOS: Brookshire Lunch Honors Hard-Working Students

Students who take a full class load and work off campus face many unique time management challenges, but their efforts were rewarded recently at the Brookshire Lunch at UH.…