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The National Science Foundation (NSF) published an article and video online about research conducted by Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of electrical and computer…
NSF Website Features UH Professor’s Research on Neuroaesthetics
The University of Houston’s Graduate Research and Scholarship Projects (GRaSP) Day offers students the opportunity to network and introduce their research to a wide audience through oral and poster presentations. Now in its…
Engineering Students Selected as GRaSP Day Finalists
A whopping 13 percent of Texas teens who took the 2015 SAT test indicated that they intended to study engineering in college. Engineering was listed as the second-most popular career choice for Texas teens — 22 percent of…
More Texas Teens Want to be Engineers When They Grow Up
Badri Roysam, professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, was recently elected editor-in-chief of the ECE Source, a publication of the Electrical and Computer Engineering…
ECE Chair Publishes Op-Ed on the Future of the Field in National Association Publication
The October cover of the Journal of Biophotonics featured molecular sensing research conducted by Wei-Chuan Shih, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering. The study…
Journal Features Breast Cancer DNA Biomarker Sensor on Cover
Three prominent visual artists, Dario Robleto, Jo Ann Fleischhauer and Lily Cox-Richard, were recently appointed Cullen College of Engineering Artists-in-Residence in Neuroaesthetics. As part of a Brain Research through Advancing…
Three Appointed as Engineering Artists-in-Residence in Neuroaesthetics
Floating in cerebral fluid inside 22 bones that form the face and skull, each of the seven billion brains belonging to Earth’s human inhabitants govern intelligence, creativity, memory, emotion, speech, movement, sensory systems…
Probing Deeper: Shining Light on the Mysteries of the Brain With Optogenetics
Prosthetic legs combine mind and muscle to travel advanced tech terrain The National Science Foundation has awarded Jose Luis "Pepe" Contreras-Vidal, electrical and computer engineering professor at UH Cullen College, with two…
Prostheses on Fast Track to Improved Movement for Amputees
Intentionality is the core of human cognition and movement, and Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal is intent on understanding, for all intents and purposes, the neural mechanisms of intention in the human brain. The UH Cullen…
A Renaissance in the Mind: Brain Research at the Crossroads of Art and Science
The Office of Undergraduate Research’s 11th annual Undergraduate Research Day took place on Thursday, October 22nd in the Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library and the Honors College. At the event, over 175 undergraduate…
PHOTOS: 2015 Undergraduate Research Day
Yanliang (Leonard) Liang, electrical and computer engineering research associate at UH Cullen College, won the Silver Nano Research Poster Award at the 10th Sino-U.S. Symposium on Nanoscale Science and Technology in June.Liang’s…
Engineering Student Earns Silver Nano Research Poster Award
Ji Chen, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH Cullen College, is hosting the 2015 Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts, SPWLA, Resistivity SIG Meeting on Oct 23. The workshop provides a forum for…
Professor to Host 2015 SPWLA Resistivity SIG Meeting
Md Masud Parvez Arnob and Hoang Nguyen, both doctoral students at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, won 2nd place for their poster abstract at the 5th Annual Neuroengineering Symposium sponsored by the Gulf Coast Consortia on…
Engineering Doctoral Students, Professor Honored at GCC Neuroengineering Symposium
In conjunction with the Blaffer Art Museum, the Cullen College of Engineering is proud to present the first event in the Your Brain on Art series on Tuesday, October 13th from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The series is a groundbreaking…
Your Brain on Art Series Premieres with Exquisite Corpse
Badri Roysam, chair of the Cullen College’s electrical and computer engineering department, was recently elected as the chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) editorial committee.…
PHOTOS: 2015 Southwest ECEDHA Conference
This month, four UH Cullen College of Engineering professors earned a four-year grant amounting to almost $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to pursue their nanopatterning discovery that could lead to next-…
Engineers Earn $1.5 Million to Pursue Novel Nanopatterning Technology
The city of Houston, home of the largest medical center in the world, is known for being at the forefront of cutting-edge medical research. By partnering with Houston Methodist, a hospital at the heart of the medical center, the…
Doctoral Student Awarded Fellowship to Explore Neuroengineering
The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR) Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to improving the lives of patients with central nervous system damage, awarded Jose “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal, professor of electrical…
Professor Earns Mission Connect Grant for Brain-Machine Interface Research
A professor in the UH Cullen College of Engineering received the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) award with a project titled “DotLens Smartphone Microscopy.” This grant will provide his team with…
UH Engineers Win NSF I-CORPs Award to Commercialize Smartphone Microscopy Lenses
In laboratories and research centers across the country, new inventions and discoveries are being made each and every day. However, very few of these ideas make it out of the laboratory and into the consumer marketplace. One…
ECE Chair Highlights Benefits of I-CORPS Program in Op-Ed Article