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UH Engineer Focuses on Improving Quality of Bridges UH Engineer Focuses on Improving Quality of Bridges

As the United States struggles to pay for expanding and maintaining the nation’s transportation infrastructure, a University of Houston research team is proposing changes to the… Read More
brain sensors ‘Your Brain on Art’ Musical Performance Set at UH

How does music affect our brains? The latest in a series of collaborations designed to learn what happens in the brain as people create, perform and contemplate art will take… Read More
Stanko Brankovic ECE Professor Wins Grant for Thin Film Cracking Research

Although almost invisible to the naked eye, thin film coatings are used in millions of products that many people use in their daily lives. Found in everything from smartphone… Read More
Christina Dillon PHOTOS: SWE Launch Into Engineering

Earlier this month, the University of Houston’s Society of Women Engineers hosted its 4th annual “Launch Into Engineering” event, inviting hundreds of local high school students… Read More
UH Campus UH Ranked Among Great Value Colleges with Beautiful Campuses

With its lush green spaces and robust public art collection, the University of Houston offers students a cozy, colorful campus. Cougars aren’t the only ones in the know about UH’s… Read More
Alcohol Engineer Earns Millions to Explore Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine on Brain Development in Mice

Maternal exposures to alcohol and nicotine, which are sometimes abused during pregnancies, are linked to fetal growth retardation and neurotoxicity. However, the individual and… Read More
Award Allows Engineers to Pursue Technique for Assessing Systemic Sclerosis Award Allows Engineers to Pursue Technique for Assessing Systemic Sclerosis

Two professors at the UH Cullen College of Engineering earned a $200,000 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Discovery Award from the U.S. Department of Defense to… Read More
Science Engineering Fair Top Young Scientists Compete in Science Engineering Fair

Are you looking for the next big thing? You might find it at this year’s Science Engineering Fair of Houston, set for Feb. 27 on the University of Houston campus. About 1,200… Read More
Sergey Shevkoplyas Professor Develops Screening Test to Help Save Lives of Children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Casual conversations around the dinner table belonging to a biomedical engineer and a health economist are as interesting as one might expect – and potentially just as productive… Read More
ICE Leadership UH ASME Student Section Earns Grant for STEM Outreach

For the third year in a row, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded the UH ASME student section a Diversity Action Grant (DAG) for the student-run “Intro to… Read More