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Vincent Donnelly, Moores Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the recipient of the 2024 Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases. Donnelly is the 18th person to win the award, and the first from the University of Houston. ChBE's Donnelly earns Will Allis Prize from APS

Recognizing a distinguished career in improving integrated circuits via plasma etching, the American Physical Society (APS) has awarded a Cullen College of Engineering professor… Read More
Associate professor of biotechnology Venkatesh Balan [pictured] and professor of mechanical engineering technology Weihang Zhu were recently awarded $750,000 of a $2 million grant by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to conduct groundbreaking work into the development of a new poultry feed additive made from mushrooms. Technology Division Researchers Developing Healthy Organic Chicken Feed Using Mushroom Stems

Farmyard and backyard chickens the world over have long been the happy recipients of family table scraps as a part of their regular diets, allowing households to not only reduce… Read More
Farshad Safi Samghabadi, a doctoral student at the Cullen College of Engineering, has earned second place for his poster presentation at the 2023 Symposium for Frontiers in Soft Matter and Macromolecular Networks. Conrad Group's Safi takes 2nd at Frontiers in Soft Matter symposium

Farshad Safi Samghabadi, a doctoral student at the Cullen College of Engineering, has earned second place for his poster presentation at the 2023 Symposium for Frontiers in Soft… Read More
A white paper, "Competitive Pricing of Hydrogen as an Economic Alternative to Gasoline and Diesel for the Houston Transportation Sector," examines the promise for the potential of hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector. More than 230 million metric tons of carbon dioxide gas are released each year by the transportation sector in Texas. UH Researchers Suggest Hydrogen Fuel Can be a Competitive Alternative to Gasoline and Diesel Today

As the world strives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and find sustainable transportation solutions, University of Houston energy researchers suggest that hydrogen fuel can… Read More
Gangbing Song, Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is reporting a new method, using percussion, to detect pipeline elbow erosion. Cullen Researchers Develop New Percussion Method to Detect Pipeline Elbow Erosion

A University of Houston engineering research team is pioneering a new method, based on percussion, to detect pipeline elbow erosion. It is no small problem. Below the surface of… Read More
Abdul Latif Khan, an assistant professor in the Cullen College of Engineering's Technology Division's Department of Engineering Technology, has received a research grant from the USDA to purchase instruments that will allow for the real-time monitoring of photosynthesis. Khan using new instruments for real-time photosynthesis monitoring

Abdul Latif Khan, an assistant professor in the Cullen College of Engineering's Technology Division's Department of Engineering Technology, has received a research grant from the… Read More
Clockwise from top left - Jiming Bao, Shuo Chen, Zhu Han and Zhifeng Ren. Repeat! Four University of Houston Researchers Named Most Cited in the World

For the second straight year, the same dynamic quartet of University of Houston scientists has been honored as world-class, highly cited researchers, acknowledging the remarkable… Read More
Joseph Tedesco [left] and Pradeep Sharma [right]. Tedesco Steps Down, Sharma Named Interim Dean

Pradeep Sharma, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair, has been named the Interim Dean of the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston… Read More
Mohamed Soliman, the William C. Miller Endowed Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, has been recognized by another organization for a long career of distinction. Soliman named inaugural member of Hart Energy's Hall of Fame

Mohamed Soliman, the William C. Miller Endowed Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, has been recognized… Read More
A diagram of the UH team's thermodynamic house. UH Architecture and Engineering Team’s Thermodynamic House to Compete in Housing Event

A University of Houston team of architects, engineers and designers will put their creative minds to the test as part of a new competition to design innovative, unique and fully… Read More