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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
eye Postdoc Gives Gift of Sight to Children With Inherited Vision Loss

A postdoctoral fellow from the UH Cullen College’s department of biomedical engineering was recently awarded a Career Starter grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. Rahel… Read More
Undergrads Engineer the Future of Research at the Cullen College Undergrads Engineer the Future of Research at the Cullen College

At the University of Houston, graduate students aren’t the only ones diving into research this summer. Undergraduate students are gaining hands on research experience through the… Read More
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast. Photo courtesy of NASA. It’s the Season: UH Engineer Hosts Conference on Hurricane Preparation and Recovery

Whether it’s your first Houston hurricane season or you’ve weathered decades of them, you have to know one thing: The wrath of Mother Nature can be shocking each time. That’s why… Read More
IEEE UH Engineering Students Earn IEEE Travel Grants to Attend Future Leaders Forum

Two UH Cullen College of Engineering students have been awarded travel grants by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 5 to attend the annual IEEE… Read More
In a galaxy on UH campus, Professor Joe Francis is perfecting Jedi mind control Professor Joe Francis’ Mind is Teeming with Ways to Team with Robots

To the unfamiliar, it might seem a Jedi mind trick – the notion of controlling robots by simply thinking of what you wish for them to do. If so, then Joe Francis, associate… Read More