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Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh Doctoral Student Wins Fellowship to Investigate Applied Superconductivity

Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh, a materials engineering doctoral student at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, received a 2016 Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied…
Powering the world: Haleh Ardebili, Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor in mechanical engineering, with her bendable battery roughly the size of a business card Powering the Air and Sea: Haleh Ardebili Receives Two Grants to Store Energy

Imagine a battery that doesn't fit neatly into its appointed slot, one that's neither cylindrical nor square shaped, but perhaps as thin as a business card and as stretchy as Play…
Yandi Hu Environmental Engineer Boosts Oil Production Efficiency with Department of Energy Grant

Everyone with a water faucet knows the nuisance of limescale, the chalky deposits of minerals that tend to build up inside of water heaters, pipes and pots. If left untreated,…
Researchers Propose New Treatment to Prevent Kidney Stones Researchers Propose New Treatment to Prevent Kidney Stones

Researchers have found evidence that a natural fruit extract is capable of dissolving calcium oxalate crystals, the most common component of human kidney stones. This finding…
The UH Cullen College crowd: Jincy Philip, left, Olga Bannova, Ph.D., center, and Anchal Bhaskar in Russia with Baker Institute Space Policy Summer Intern Program A Stellar Summer: Two Cullen College Students Space Out in Moscow

Most of us are quite comfortable to report that over summer vacation we participated in the typical leisure activities that recharge our scholastic batteries. Maybe we hung out at…
eye Postdoc Gives Gift of Sight to Children With Inherited Vision Loss

A postdoctoral fellow from the UH Cullen College’s department of biomedical engineering was recently awarded a Career Starter grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. Rahel…
Undergrads Engineer the Future of Research at the Cullen College Undergrads Engineer the Future of Research at the Cullen College

At the University of Houston, graduate students aren’t the only ones diving into research this summer. Undergraduate students are gaining hands on research experience through the…