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UH Part of $7.9M Initiative To Promote Soil Health and Tackle Climate Change

Abdul Latif Khan leads a NIFA-selected project focused on adapting natural nutrients to enhance soil and plant systems.

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UH Joins DOE’s New Energy Innovation Hub to Advance Battery Technology

Yan Yao is the deputy lead of the soft matter scientific thrust and the principal investigator for UH’s portion of the Energy Storage Research Alliance. 

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Boosting Clean Energy With AI-Powered Catalysts Design for Micro-Plasma Technologies with $1M NSF Grant Award

With a $1M grant from the National Science Foundation, a team of UH researchers are developing cutting-edge catalysts by integrating advanced machine learning with experimental methods to enhance catalyst efficiency and accelerate renewable energy technologies.

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FACULTY EXCELLENCE

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Tech Division’s Robles Hernández Is Supercharging Superconductors with NSF Award

Francisco C. Robles Hernández has been awarded $307,275 from the NSF to explore methods of boosting superconductor efficiency in collaboration with the University of Kansas.

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Yashashree Kulkarni Wins 2024 ASME Materials Division Centennial Mid-Career Award

Yashashree Kulkarni has been awarded the 2024 ASME Materials Division Centennial Mid-Career Award. This honor celebrates her pioneering work applying statistical mechanics to the intersection of mechanics and materials science.

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Stuart Long Receives Distinguished Achievement Award from IEEE

Stuart Long has been honored with the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Achievement Award, recognizing his pioneering work on dielectric resonator and microstrip patch antennas.

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Shirmohammadi Recognized as Reviewer of the Year

Melika Shirmohammadi was honored with the Reviewer of the Year award from Human Relations, a leading academic journal. This recognition celebrates her high-quality, timely, and thorough reviews of journal submissions over the past year.

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TOP RESEARCH NEWS

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Exploring New Geometric Design With Diverse Engineering Applications

Ashutosh Agrawal is putting a newly awarded $334,569 grant from the National Science Foundation toward the study of “Mechanics of Optimal Biomimetic Torene Plates and Shells with Ultra-High Genus”.

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Improving Eye Tracking To Assess Brain Disorders

Jae-Hyun Ryou and his team has developed wearable sensors using piezoelectricity to examine eye movement to assess brain disorders or damage to the brain.

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New Research Suggests Rainwater Helped Form the First Protocell Walls

Alamgir Karim and collaborators reported in Science Advances, how rainwater may have played a crucial role in forming protective walls around protocells 3.8 billion years ago.

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UH Researchers Unveil Groundbreaking Technique in X-Ray Imaging

Researchers at UH, led by Mini Das and physics graduate student Jingcheng Yuan, have developed a groundbreaking X-ray imaging technology, featured in Optica, that enhances visibility of light-element materials like soft tissues and plastics.

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STUDENT NEWS

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UH ASME Wins Student Section Achievement Award

The University of Houston’s ASME student chapter has earned the prestigious ASME Student Section Achievement Award for 2023-2024.

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National Academy of Inventors Honors UH MAE Student Innovators with Inaugural Genspiration Prize

Jian Chen and Thomas “Tico” Hannan won the inaugural Genspiration Prize at the National Academy of Inventors Conference for their groundbreaking Lithium-ion battery health monitoring technology, earning a $2,500 award.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Rockwell Lecture Series — Optimization And Machine Learning Nexus: Model-Based And Data-Driven Approaches 

October 4, 2024
1:00 p.m.
L2D2

Cullen Gala

October 10, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Hilton Americas Hotel, 1600 Lamar Street Houston, TX 77010

[UPDATED SPEAKER] Rockwell Lecture Series — Elevating the Performance of the Built Environment through Cyberphysical Systems

October 18, 2024
2:30 p.m.
CBB 104

Rockwell Lecture Series — Imagining and Inventing the Future of Mechanical Engineering

November 7, 2024
2:30 p.m.
CBB 106

Cullen College Golf Tournament

November 21, 2024
11:00 a.m.
BlackHorse Golf Course, 12205 Fry Road, Cypress, TX 77433

 

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