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Harish Krishnamoorthy

Harish Krishnamoorthy Earns NSF CAREER Award For Power Systems and Converters Research

Krishnamoorthy will use this award to further his research with power systems and converters. The funded project aims to build more reliable electrical systems and grow the talent pipeline for power electronics.

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Aaron Becker

Unleashing The Power Of Intelligent Drone Swarms

Aaron Becker will use a $1.7 million grant from Kostas Research Institute at Northeastern University, LLC to develop new technology that will allow drones to respond fluidly to changes in the environment.

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Venkat Selvamanickam

Breakthrough ‘Super Cool Conductor’ Advances To Final Round Of DOE Competition 

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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New Model To Examine Usher Syndrome

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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Lars Tebbe, Muna Naash, Muayyad R. Al-Ubaidi and Mustafa Makia

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Ben Xu

UH Professor Receives NSF Grant For Heat Transfer Research

Ben Xu will use a $171,734 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his multiscale study of oscillating flow and multiphase heat transfer in porous media.

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A Painless Way To Check For Bladder Cancer

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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New Type Of Sensor That Can Operate In Extreme Environments Featured In Advanced Functional Materials Journal

A team of UH researchers has developed a new reliable and durable sensor that can work in temperatures as high as 900 degrees Celsius or 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit and can be used in multiple industries.

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Mohamed Soliman, Birol Dindoruk, and Utkarsh Sinha

Energy Industry Apps Improve Efficiency

A team of UH researchers has developed a series of digital applications to make energy industry processes more efficient. The three innovative calculators can be accessed online for free.

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