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The spring 2020 Distinguished Rockwell Lecture Series on Friday, January 24 featuring a lecture by Dr. Orlin Velev. Photos: Spring 2020 Rockwell Lecture Series Presents “Liquid Nanofabrication of Functional Multiphasic Soft Matter by Capillary Binding and Interfacial Templating”

UH Engineering kicked off the spring 2020 Distinguished Rockwell Lecture Series on Friday, January 24 featuring a lecture by Dr. Orlin Velev. Orlin Velev is a S. Frank and Doris…
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has granted UH approval to offer three new undergraduate engineering degrees at UH at Katy. UH at Katy to Offer Three New Engineering Degrees

In a significant move to expand higher educational offerings across the Houston region, the University of Houston has received approval from the Texas Higher Education…
An improved brain chip, created in the Akay Biomedical Engineering Lab, provides large-scale assessments on the response of brain tumor cells to various concentrations and combinations of drugs. UH Biomedical Engineering Lab Creates Improved Brain Chip for Precision Medicine

Device Chooses Right Combo of Cancer Drugs in Record Time The Akay Lab biomedical research team at the University of Houston is reporting an improvement on a microfluidic brain…
Chemical engineers Jeffrey Rimer, left, Wenchuan Ma and Peter Vekilov have for the first time demonstrated what happens at the molecular level when two compounds known to inhibit crystal growth were combined Molecular Understanding of Drug Interactions Suggests Pathway to Better Malaria Treatments

The Work Also Has Implications for Speeding Drug Development The process of crystallization is central to drug development, petrochemical processing and other industrial actions,…
Hadi Ghasemi, Cullen College Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UH, said the new understanding eliminates the “bottleneck” that has complicated predictions and simulations of processes involving evaporation. UH Researchers Solve a Scientific Mystery about Evaporation

Work Has Implications for Power Generation, Desalination, Electronics Evaporation can explain why water levels drop in a full swimming pool, but it also plays an important role in…