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The idea to bring the Doctor of Nursing Practice program to India began at a meeting of this trio. From left, Sushila Agrawal, Durga D. Agrawal, member, UH System Board of Regents and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. Agrawals instrumental in bringing 2 Doctor of Nursing programs to India universities

With support from the University of Houston’s Andy & Barbara Gessner College of Nursing, two universities in India — MGM Institute of Health Sciences in Mumbai and Krishna…
Mim Rahimi, an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, is part of the 2025 cohort for the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists' 40 Under 40 Recognition Program. CEE’s Rahimi named to 40 Under 40 class by AAEES

An assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering has been recognized as a rising star in environmental engineering…
University of Houston researchers (L to R): Xuqing Wu, associate professor of computer information systems; Yueqin Huang, assistant professor of information science technology and Jiefu Chen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Cullen researchers part of $3.3M Project to Improve Undergrounding Electric Power Lines

Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy launched an ARPA-E Program called GOPHURRS, which stands for Grid Overhaul with Proactive, High-speed Undergrounding for Reliability,…
Yan Yao and Zhaoyang Chen. ECE Ph.D. student Chen makes battery breakthrough, authors cover article in Advanced Energy Materials

Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student Zhaoyang Chen’s research article, “Manipulating Hardness to Construct Favorable Electrode Microstructures for All-Solid-State Batteries…
Though last year marked 20 years of the accreditation of the Master of Science in Space Architecture program by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, program director Olga Bannova, Ph.D., still regularly encounters people who aren’t familiar with space architecture as a field of study and research. Space Architecture at UH: What Makes a House (Or a Lunar Base Camp) a Home?

The Cullen College of Engineering’s Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) and its space architecture degree program might be the University of Houston’s…