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Contreras-Vidal seeks to answer what happens in the brain as people create and enjoy art Bringing together scientific research and artistic inquiry is a serious mission for the D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER). It…
UH Professor Part of National Event on the Interworking of Art and the Brain
Delvina Branch, office coordinator in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, received a 2018 President's Excellence Award. “It was a tremendous honor to be nominated and to…
Cullen College Staff Wins UH President’s Excellence Award
UH Engineers Focus on Degradable Reconnaissance Vehicles and Evasive Drone Maneuvers Ensuring military forces have up-to-date information about a potentially hostile region offers obvious advantages, but current methods for doing…
Mission: Possible — Mapping Dangerous Terrain
National Science Foundation grant provides scholarships and support to academically-talented underserved students The National Science Foundation awarded a $999,029 grant to a team of University of Houston researchers for a new…
UH Researchers Win $1M Award to Boost Student Success
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society recognizes Stuart Long for his ‘commitment to electromagnetics education.’ Stuart Long, Cullen College professor of electrical and computer engineering and Associate Dean of the Honors…
UH Engineering Professor Wins IEEE Distinguished Educator Award
The Building Reliable Advancements in Neurotechnology (BRAIN) Center welcomed engineering faculty, staff and students from UH and ASU along with a “who’s who” of industry leaders to the second annual Industry Advisory Board…
Second Annual Advisory Meeting Showcases Innovative BRAIN Center Neurotechnologies
University of Houston researcher examines skin to predict stress, illness University of Houston electrical engineer Rose T. Faghih has been awarded $175,000 by the National Science Foundation to examine whether wrist-worn…
Wearable Technology to Track Brain, Predict Illness
The UH Cullen College of Engineering's biannual Parameters magazine earned the American Marketing Association's (AMA) Crystal Award for best public relations/communications newsletter. Finalists in the category included UH's…
UH Cullen College's 'Parameters' Magazine Wins Crystal Award from American Marketing Association
Award Celebrates Professors with Dedication to Students and Passion for Teaching The late William A. Brookshire – a UH chemical engineering alumnus – understood firsthand the impact that dedicated teachers can have on students’…
Cullen College Announces Two Winners of Inaugural Brookshire Teaching Excellence Awards
National Geographic explores the brilliance and creativity of Pablo Picasso in an April article titled “How Picasso’s Journey From Prodigy to Icon Revealed a Genius.” A trailblazing, legendary artist, Picasso revolutionized the…
Unlocking Secrets of the Creative Brain: UH Research Cited in National Geographic Article on Picasso
Conrad and Yao sweep 'Associate Professor' category The Cullen College of Engineering faculty swept the associate professor category of the University of Houston’s Awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative…
Cullen College Faculty Shine in UH Research Awards
Plus: Other Faculty Award Announcements Zhu Han, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, is having a good year. He’s been awarded a 2018 Moores…
UH Engineering Professor Wins Prestigious Moores Professorship
It’s no secret that data is everywhere today – endless streams of information are constantly being collected through our smartphones and mobile devices, by sensors placed on bridges and in buildings and even through our smart…
UH Engineer Part of Team Awarded $7.5 Million MURI Grant to Analyze Social Behavior and Predict Outcomes
Distinguished chemical engineer and BASF executive Heidi Alderman will be the featured speaker at the UH Cullen College of Engineering 2018 commencement on Friday, May 11. Alderman - who currently serves as senior vice president…
BASF Executive Heidi Alderman to be UH Cullen College 2018 Commencement Speaker
The Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston was a happening place this weekend — rockets launched into the sky with great puffs of smoke, robots performed amazing feats, and propeller-powered cars raced down…
UH Engineers, Chevron Introduce Houston-area Girls to STEM Fun
NSF-Funded Project Targets African-American, Latino Boys Both the medium and the message are STEM – encouraging fourth and fifth-grade African-American and Latino boys to embrace the cool factor of science, technology,…
Boys, Fathers and Mentors Work Together for STEM Engagement
Groundbreaking brain-machine interfacing with prostheses highlighted About 3.5 million people in America are living with some degree of paralysis related to stroke, multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy. Nature magazine this month…
Nature Magazine Features UH Professor’s Work to Address Paralysis
New and interesting things are being made at the UH Makerspace, which opened this spring in the M.D. Anderson Library. Two University of Houston electrical and computer engineering students — Kaushik Mandiga and Denny Luong —…
UH Students Exhibit Robots Created In Makerspace
The UH Cullen College of Engineering is several steps closer to landing a spot among the Top 50 engineering colleges in America. The 2019 U.S. News and World Report rankings place the Cullen College on the list of the Best…
UH Engineering Rises in U.S. News Rankings
When it comes to batteries, UH engineer Yan Yao never runs out of award-winning ideas. Yao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College, and his research partners are known for their…
Battery Expert Powers Up With a Scialog Award