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November 1, 2023
Three Cullen College of Engineering doctoral student graduates – all now working in industry – have been recognized for stellar work on their dissertations for the 2022-23 academic year. To recognize the value of the outstanding…
Fang, Mallette, Mozaffari honored for dissertations
October 17, 2023
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to announce 15 faculty promotions, effective starting the Fall 2023 semester. Promotions are listed by level, then alphabetically last name. All promotions are granted followed a…
Cullen promotes 15 faculty members for Fall 2023
October 9, 2023
Imagine owning a wearable sensor that can monitor your health at every moment in real-time and potentially detect certain cancers in your body before they start affecting you. Through a HEALTH-RCMI Pilot Program Award, University…
BME's Li Explores Wearable Sensors to Detect Colorectal Cancer
September 12, 2023
$3M Grant Brings Artificial Intelligence on Board for Faster, More Accurate Diagnosis, Better Patient Outcome In the ever-perilous autoimmune disease world of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus), up to 60 percent of adult…
Cullen Team Setting the Gold Standard in Diagnosis of Lupus Nephritis
September 11, 2023
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to announce the hiring and promotion of 31 faculty members for the 2023-2024 academic year. All employees were hired after a competitive search process and multiple rounds of interviews…
Cullen College of Engineering welcomes 31 new faculty members
August 17, 2023
Imaging Mass Cytometry Showcases Odd Numbers of Proteins in Kidneys of Lupus Nephritis Patients Chandra Mohan, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering, is reporting the first use of the…
Powerful Imaging Technology From Cullen Researcher Used to Investigate Renal Disease
May 13, 2023
Biomedical Engineering senior Lilly Roelofs didn't even know she was being considered for this year's Cynthia Oliver Coleman, P.E. Rising Star Award, but she was ecstatic when she received the email announcing her as the…
BME's Roelofs 2023 Rising Star Award winner
May 8, 2023
The Cullen College of Engineering recognized 15 members of the faculty, staff and students at its 2022-23 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards, held during the Faculty-Staff Meeting on May 2. A full photo gallery can be found on…
Cullen honors 15 at 2022-23 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards
May 5, 2023
Usher syndrome, a rare inherited genetic disease, is a leading cause of combined deafness and blindness with type 2A (USH2A) being the most common form. USH2A, caused by mutations in the USH2A gene, can include hearing loss from…
Team Led by BME's Naash Builds New Model to Examine Usher Syndrome
April 27, 2023
A University of Houston biomedical engineer and his team are reporting the discovery of new biomarkers for early detection of bladder cancer (BC), among the most common cancers diagnosed in men in the U.S. According to the…
On the Horizon - A Painless Way to Check for Bladder Cancer
April 26, 2023
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering Biomedical Engineering Department will host the 10th Annual Biomedical Engineering Day (BME Day), a one-day forum focusing on health care innovation and entrepreneurship on…
Biomedical Engineers Gather at UH to Discuss Health Care Innovation and Entrepreneurship
April 25, 2023
The University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has improved two spots, to 69th overall of U.S. Engineering schools, in the latest yearly rankings by the U.S. News & World Report. Excluding private colleges and…
Cullen improves marks in latest U.S. News Grad School rankings
April 13, 2023
The Cullen College of Engineering offers its congratulations to the 16 students who have been named Outstanding Juniors and Seniors for the 2022-23 academic year. Students are nominated by professors, with one junior and one…
Cullen recognizes 16 Outstanding Juniors and Seniors for 2022-23
April 7, 2023
The University of Houston's Engineering Alumni Association honored 42 different students with more than $21,000 in scholarships at the 2023 Engineer's Week Program, hosted in February Daniel Herrera, an Electrical Engineering…
More than 40 students honored at EAA celebration
April 5, 2023
The third season of the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering STEMINIST podcast has now resumed, with new episodes dropping weekly through the end of the semester. The latest episode features an interview by Aria…
Season 3 of STEMINIST podcast resumes
March 29, 2023
Metin Akay, founding chairman and John S. Dunn Endowed Chairman of the Biomedical Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pécs, one of Europe's oldest…
BME chairman Akay earns honorary doctorate from Hungary's Pécs
January 23, 2023
‘The Slowest Wave/Butoh and The Brain’ on Feb 10 is Culmination of Performance-Research Study Click here for video preview. Furthering ongoing studies at the University of Houston on the effect of creativity on the brain,…
Postmodern Dance Performance While Dancers’ Brain Waves Recorded by BME Professor
January 19, 2023
A University of Houston researcher is expanding a method of gene therapy with the hopes it will restore vision loss in Usher Syndrome Type 2A (USH2A), a rare genetic disease. The National Eye Institute has awarded Muna Naash,…
BME's Naash Researching Expanded Gene Therapy for Rare Blindness Disease
October 17, 2022
Under the direction of Kirill Larin, high resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) is having an extended moment. During the past 20 years, the University of Houston professor of Biomedical Engineering has masterminded its…
BME's Larin Pioneers Imaging Techniques of Fetal Brain and Cornea
September 15, 2022
The University of Houston's wing of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers has earned a National Chapter of the Year for 2021-22 from the national leadership of the group. According to award criteria, National Chapter…
SHPE-UH honored with National Chapter of the Year award