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Janice Quiroz Perez, Director of Engineering Career Service Center New Podcast Episode: Career Fair tips & tricks

The latest STEMINIST podcast episode is now live! This is part 2 of our Career Fair Series with Career Services Director, Janice Quiroz Perez. Listen as Cullen College Engineering…
Chandra Mohan, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering, screened more than 1,100 proteins in the fluid surrounding the brains of neuropsychiatric lupus patients and identified a few proteins that could potentially be used to diagnose neuropsychiatric lupus. BME's Mohan IDs Potential Biomarkers for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Lupus

A globally renowned expert in autoimmune diseases and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at the University of Houston has identified potential biomarkers for neuropsychiatric…
Taewoo Lee and Poria Dorali. Faculty, student volunteers key to St. Elmo Brady effort

For Industrial Engineering assistant professor Taewoo Lee and doctoral student Poria Dorali, each one came to the decision to volunteer with the St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy in…
Pietro Milillo, assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Houston, is joined in the project by University of California Irvine researchers and scientists from NASA, the German Aerospace Center and the Italian Space Agency. Milillo is lead author of “Rapid Glacier Retreat Rates Observed in West Antarctica,” an article in Nature Geosciences that details their findings. Radar Tech From CEE's Milillo Records Antarctic Glaciers Losing Ice Faster Than Ever Documented Before

In a new University of Houston study using an advanced remote imaging system known as synthetic aperture radar interferometry, three glaciers at the South Pole are being…
Jinsook Roh, an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering, has received a CAREER award for her proposal, “Neuromuscular Coordination (NeuroCoord)-Guided Human-Machine Interaction for Quantifying and Improving Motor Function after Stroke.” Roh earns CAREER award for stroke rehab research

When it comes to rehabilitation efforts following a stroke, Jinsook Roh of the Cullen College of Engineering stresses that one simply can't address the effects of the incident – a…
Metin Akay, John S. Dunn Endowed Chair Professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Houston and IEEE Fellow, has published findings of an international panel of engineers on the health care challenges of COVID-19. Biomedical Forum Explores Health Care Shortcomings

To address the challenges of bringing COVID-19 solutions into clinical practice quickly, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and…
Professor Aaron Becker's research focus is to find out how tiny swarms of robots could be used in medicine in the future. [Photo credit: Markus Hörster/TU Braunschweig.] Becker awarded prestigious Humboldt fellowship

A Cullen College of Engineering professor will be extending his stay in Germany to collaborate with international researchers, after being picked for the Alexander von Humboldt…