CULLEN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
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The University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering has improved two spots, to 69th overall of U.S. Engineering schools, in the 2023 rankings by the U.S. News & World Report. The Petroleum Engineering Department also solidified its position, moving to ninth overall from 10th place.
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The Cullen College of Engineering recognized 15 members of the faculty, staff and students at its 2022-23 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards, held during the Faculty-Staff Meeting on May 2. The keynote award was the William A. Brookshire Teaching Excellence Award which was awarded to: Fritz Claydon and Farah Hammami Ep Kammoun.
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Megan L. Robertson has been chosen for a prestigious Associate Editor position of Macromolecules, a publication of the American Chemical Society.
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Xingpeng Li has been named an Emerging Leader by the 2023 Offshore Technology Conference. Of the nine honorees, Li is the only one from an institution of higher education.
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The Selva Research Group is one of seven teams that advanced to the final stage of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough Leapfrog Electric and thermal applications (CABLE) Conductor Manufacturing Prize.
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Usher syndrome, a rare inherited genetic disease, is a leading cause of combined deafness and blindness. Muna Naash, is reporting in Nature Communications, a new model of Usher Syndrome that includes its mutant protein and helps understand the disease.
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Chandra Mohan and his team of researchers are reporting in BMC Medicine, that soon a simple urine test may be the new standard for bladder cancer testing, replacing the invasive and often painful tests currently used.
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Venkatesh Balan and a team of researchers study the abilities of these water-loving flora to uptake concentrations of chemicals and heavy metals that unfortunately end up in places where they should not be.
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The Houston Mayor and the City Council have appointed Mackrena L. Ramos, P.E., to the City Park Redevelopment Authority and Tax Reinvestment Zone #12 Board of Directors.
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Jun Mao, a former Postdoctoral Fellow and Ph.D. graduate at the Texas Center for Superconductivity, was selected by an international panel for the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 (China) award.
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2023 EAA Alumni Awards Gala
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6-8-2023
6:00 p.m.
Bayou City Event Center
9401 Knight Rd., Houston, TX 77045
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To purchase tickets and sponsorships for the 2023 EAA Awards Gala, please contact our Director of Relations, Catherine Brown at cmbrow31@central.uh.edu or call 713-743-2804.
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2023 Engineering Golf Tournament
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9-7-2023
11:30 a.m.
BlackHorse Golf Course
12205 Fry Road, Cypress, TX 77433
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Your donation towards the Dean’s Fund can help ensure that Cullen College of Engineering has the support needed to educate the next generation of Engineers.
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UH Cullen College of Engineering
E421 Engineering Bldg 2, Houston, TX 77204-4007
713-743-7593
The University of Houston is an EEO/AA institution.
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