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UH Engineer Collaborates With ConocoPhillips on LNG Video Series UH Engineer Collaborates With ConocoPhillips on LNG Video Series

The renowned University of Houston engineering professor John Lienhard, who heralds “how inventive minds work” as the creator and voice of the KUHF radio program The Engines of… Read More
Charles Beyer (middle) with wife, Nancy, and Joseph Tedesco (left), Dean of the Cullen College Scholarship Honors a Man Dedicated to Civil Engineering and Cullen College

When proud UH Cullen College alumnus Charles Beyer passed away in May, his family shared one of Beyer’s favorite mottos, which they said he imparted to anyone who met him: "The… Read More
Professor Joe Francis is dedicated to making people feel whole again through brain work Restoring the Sense of Touch Makes Professor Joe Francis Sensational

If it has to do with the brain, Associate Professor of biomedical engineering Joe Francis’ neurons are crackling. While he continues teaching robots to sense what humans want… Read More
Fracturing Horizontal Wells New Book Offers Comprehensive Look at Fracturing Horizontal Wells

Fracturing horizontal wells has had a profound impact on the U.S. oil and gas industry over the past 25 years, allowing production from fields once considered too marginal to… Read More
Mohammad Reza Abidian UH Biomedical Engineer Pursues Nerve Regeneration

A biomedical engineer from the University of Houston will use a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine how best to spur nerve regeneration in the… Read More
Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh Doctoral Student Wins Fellowship to Investigate Applied Superconductivity

Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh, a materials engineering doctoral student at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, received a 2016 Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied… Read More
Powering the world: Haleh Ardebili, Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor in mechanical engineering, with her bendable battery roughly the size of a business card Powering the Air and Sea: Haleh Ardebili Receives Two Grants to Store Energy

Imagine a battery that doesn't fit neatly into its appointed slot, one that's neither cylindrical nor square shaped, but perhaps as thin as a business card and as stretchy as Play… Read More
Yandi Hu Environmental Engineer Boosts Oil Production Efficiency with Department of Energy Grant

Everyone with a water faucet knows the nuisance of limescale, the chalky deposits of minerals that tend to build up inside of water heaters, pipes and pots. If left untreated,… Read More
Researchers Propose New Treatment to Prevent Kidney Stones Researchers Propose New Treatment to Prevent Kidney Stones

Researchers have found evidence that a natural fruit extract is capable of dissolving calcium oxalate crystals, the most common component of human kidney stones. This finding… Read More
The UH Cullen College crowd: Jincy Philip, left, Olga Bannova, Ph.D., center, and Anchal Bhaskar in Russia with Baker Institute Space Policy Summer Intern Program A Stellar Summer: Two Cullen College Students Space Out in Moscow

Most of us are quite comfortable to report that over summer vacation we participated in the typical leisure activities that recharge our scholastic batteries. Maybe we hung out at… Read More