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In the lab, Chandra Mohan, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering and Richard Willson, Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and professor of biochemical and biophysical sciences. The pair is pioneering the smartphone-based app and test kit for lupus nephritis based on the technology underlying home pregnancy tests. Early Diagnosis and Monitoring of Lupus Nephritis – On Your Smartphone

A team of researchers at the University of Houston is reporting the success of their new method for the early diagnosis and monitoring of lupus nephritis – at home. If you’ve… Read More
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

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… Read More
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

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… Read More
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

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… Read More
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

‘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… Read More
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

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… Read More
Hadi Ghasemi, Cullen Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. ME's Ghasemi receives $500k award from Office of Naval Research

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… Read More
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

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… Read More
Joe Powell, founding director, UH Energy Transition Institute. NAE Member Joe Powell Named Director of UH Energy Transition Institute

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… Read More
Researchers Yan Yao and Yanliang “Leonard” Liang. ECE Researchers Charging the Future with Modern Aqueous Batteries

Lithium-ion batteries, which today power everything from the smartphones we carry in our pockets to the electric vehicles we drive, are projected to capture 80 percent of the… Read More