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The UH chapter of Tau Beta Pi – Texas Epsilon (TBP) is hosting an information session with representatives of INEOS, the fourth largest global chemicals company, on Wednesday, February 27, in the Science and Research Building 1…
Chemicals Giant INEOS To Visit With UH Engineering Students
On Thursday, February 7th, nearly 1,400 UH engineering students flocked to the UH Hilton to interview and meet with representatives from 110 of Houston’s leading companies at the spring 2019 Engineering Career Fair. Each year,…
Photos: UH Engineering Welcomes Over 100 Companies to Recruit Engineering Students
Findings May Point to Potential Cure for Addiction The Akay Lab biomedical research team at the UH Cullen College of Engineering is reporting in the journal Nature Scientific Reports that a possible cure for addiction may be…
New Data Suggests Nicotine While Pregnant Alters Genes
The UH Cullen College celebrated the graduation of more than 400 engineers at the fall 2018 commencement ceremony on Thursday, December 13, hosted at the NRG Arena. The proud graduates included 253 bachelor's, 208 master’s and 30…
Photos: UH Engineering Celebrates More Than 400 Graduates at Fall 2018 Commencement
Terrance “Terri” Ivers, P.E. (BSME ’80), is coming home to the UH Cullen College of Engineering as the featured speaker at its commencement on Dec. 13 at the NRG Arena. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical…
Distinguished Alumnus, Bilfinger Executive to be UH Cullen College Fall 2018 Commencement Speaker
UH Engineer Using Optical Equipment to Watch Heart Develop To understand cardiovascular failures, the leading cause of birth defect-related deaths in infants, UH professor of biomedical engineering Kirill Larin is teaming up with…
Understanding Congenital Heart Defects To Prevent Them
The UH Cullen College of Engineering is kicking off the 2018-2019 academic year by adding seven new faculty members to its teaching and research rosters, including a member of the presigious National Academy of Engineering.…
Renowned Engineering Faculty Join Cullen College
First-in-Class Technology to Deliver Images of Birth Defect as it Happens In those precious weeks before a woman even realizes she’s pregnant, an embryo will have already developed a neural tube, a hollow structure made of cells…
Watching an Embryo’s Neural Tube Close
Collaborative Effort Yields Parkinson’s Disease Research Findings Ilknur Telkes, who earned a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Houston last year and was a 2017 North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS)…
UH Alumna’s Paper Lands In Prestigious PNAS Journal
Method Less Invasive, Less Expensive than Colonoscopy University of Houston researcher Chandra Mohan is set to make a breakthrough in predicting and monitoring inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). With $347,490 from the Crohn’s…
Stool Proteins to Predict Inflammatory Bowel Disease
An engineering connection spanning continents and countries Cullen College of Engineering alumnus Hasan Onur Keles (BME 2015) was recently appointed chair of the electrical and electronic engineering department at Istinye…
UH Alumnus Appointed Chair of Engineering Department of Turkish University
Research proposes computer-based assessment of Parkinson’s patients more reliable Musa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, presented a poster at the Neuromodulation Symposium…
UH Student’s Poster Places at Neuromodulation Symposium
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
Three Recipients Forging New Paths for Women in Education Two University of Houston students and a faculty member, striving to set examples for future generations of women, have received awards from the prestigious American…
UH Students, Faculty Earn AAUW Awards for Tackling Educational Barriers
With $2 Million Grant, UH Researcher Unraveling the Link The chronic inflammatory disease systemic lupus erythematosus (known as SLE or lupus), is about nine times more common in women than men, and a University of Houston…
Women and Lupus – Tackling the Debilitating Connection
Priscella Asman fell in love online – more than 6,000 miles across the North Atlantic Ocean while sitting at a computer in Ghana – with the biomedical engineering program at the University of Houston. She read about Cullen…
From Ghana to Houston: UH Grad Student Wins AAUW Fellowship, Continues to Follow Her Dreams
UH Engineer Awarded for Developing Ideal Nanosystem for Therapeutic Applications The National Science Foundation has awarded University of Houston biomedical engineer Sheereen Majd the CAREER Award and $500,000 to improve…
NSF CAREER Winner Sheereen Majd to Improve Drug Delivery
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
Leaders and pioneers in the biomedical engineering (BME) field gathered at the University of Houston this April for the 5th Annual "BME Day," hosted by the UH Cullen College's biomedical engineering department. The event, which…
Biomedical Engineering Leaders Converge on UH for 5th Annual "BME Day"
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