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Janice Quiroz Perez and Emily Clark New Podcast Episode: Preparing for the Career Fair

The Cullen College Career Fair is a huge event for both students looking for opportunities and those who put the event on. Professional societies, a career fair center, and… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
UH NSBE members volunteering at a previous community event at the Blodgett Urban Gardens. UH NSBE receives $10k grant for community garden revamp

Reflecting the organization's commitment to the community, the Dow Promise Program has awarded a $10,000 grant to the University of Houston branch of the National Society of Black… Read More
George K. Wong, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department, has been the PI for a $1 million project with Shell and TotalEnergies that has received a $500,000 extension. Lori Hathon, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in the same department, is a co-PI on the project. UH, Shell, TotalEnergies sign $500k extension to $1M project

A million-dollar research project between the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, Shell and TotalEnergies has been extended with another $500,000 grant… Read More