Archived News — January 2023
Jerrod A. Henderson, a faculty member of the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department and the co-founder of the St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy, was named to an Associate Editor position for the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. ChBE's Henderson picked for associate editor position
January 31, 2023
After contributing for several years to the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor Jerrod A. Henderson will now have a more direct role in…
University of Houston Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering Ganesh Thakur has been elected as the next vice president, and eventual president, of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST). Petroleum's Thakur to Lead ‘Best and Brightest’ Scientists and Researchers in Texas
January 25, 2023
University of Houston Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering Ganesh Thakur has been elected as the next vice president, and eventual president, of the Texas Academy of…
Cynthia Oliver Coleman P.E., an alumni of the Cullen College of Engineering and a longtime supporter of the university, is one of seven women that received Fellow Grade in 2022 from the Society of Women Engineers at its annual awards program. Alum Coleman P.E. honored as Fellow Grade by SWE
January 24, 2023
Cynthia Oliver Coleman P.E., a distinguished alumni of the Cullen College of Engineering and a longtime supporter of the university, is one of seven women that received Fellow…
Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the BRAIN Center, has worked with numerous artists on brain projects that reveal how the brain is impacted by creativity. Postmodern Dance Performance While Dancers’ Brain Waves Recorded by BME Professor
January 23, 2023
‘The Slowest Wave/Butoh and The Brain’ on Feb 10 is Culmination of Performance-Research Study Click here for video preview. Furthering ongoing studies at the University of Houston…
Muna Naash, John S. Dunn Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering, is expanding a method of gene therapy with the hopes it will restore vision loss in Usher Syndrome Type 2A. BME's Naash Researching Expanded Gene Therapy for Rare Blindness Disease
January 19, 2023
A University of Houston researcher is expanding a method of gene therapy with the hopes it will restore vision loss in Usher Syndrome Type 2A (USH2A), a rare genetic disease. The…
Hadi Ghasemi, Cullen Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. ME's Ghasemi receives $500k award from Office of Naval Research
January 18, 2023
Hadi Ghasemi, Cullen Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has earned another significant, six-figure award to expand his research into cooling the high-temperature and…
Harish Krishnamoorthy, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston. Krishnamoorthy Developing New Technologies to Improve Safety, Resiliency of Offshore Energy Systems
January 13, 2023
Harish Krishnamoorthy, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, has been selected by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the…
Joe Powell, founding director, UH Energy Transition Institute. NAE Member Joe Powell Named Director of UH Energy Transition Institute
January 3, 2023
The University of Houston has named Joseph Powell, former chief scientist for Shell and member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), as the founding director of the new UH…