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Future UH Astronauts Take Their Space Among Interstellar Award Winners July 5, 2017 Thomas Lagarde has a prediction for us: “In 20 years we are all going to be astronauts.” “All of us?” “Yes, you, me, the guy in the office over there, all of us,” he continues. “... |
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ECE Professor Receives Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award June 28, 2017 Xiaonan Shan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU... |
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Transforming Supersonic Aircraft for Commercial Use June 28, 2017 Supersonic aircraft travel faster than the speed of sound but these planes aren’t likely candidates for commercial use because of their supersonic noise. Mechanical engineering... |
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Stanko Brankovic Wins Top Award in Field of Chemical Engineering June 28, 2017 If there were Academy Awards in the field of electrochemical material science, Stanko Brankovic, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College... |
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Cullen College of Engineering Joins Forces With Maritime University June 27, 2017 In April, representatives of the University of Houston’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) traveled to Dalian Maritime University (DMU) in Dalian, People’s... |
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Finding Disease and Toxins Early: Tianfu Wu’s Laboratory Creates Ultra-Sensitive Detection Tool June 27, 2017 Tianfu Wu used to dream of the day when cancer could be detected long before it was diagnosed. Now he sees that day dawning because of a system his research group created called... |
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Groundbreaking Malaria Study by UH Engineers Opens the Door to New, More Effective Drug Therapies June 26, 2017 In 2015 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Chinese scientist Youyou Tu for her discovery of a novel malaria treatment rooted in traditional Chinese medicine. Tu... |
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Alief ISD Students Donate Prosthetic Hands to UH eNABLE Chapter June 23, 2017 Inspired by the UH chapter of eNABLE, a group that provides 3D-printed prosthetic hands to those in need, Alief ISD students spent their summer days designing and building... |
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Christine Ehlig-Economides Chairs TAMEST Shale Task Force on Environmental and Community Impacts of Shale Development in Texas June 22, 2017 The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST) released findings Monday from its Shale Task Force, chaired by UH petroleum engineering professor and National... |
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Cullen College Engineer Wins International Acclaim From Organization Whose Early Membership Included Galileo June 21, 2017 For much of his career, Andrea Prosperetti has been called “Mr. Bubble” by his students for his intense focus on multiphase flows including bubble dynamics and cavitation, the... |