The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to recognize the stellar research and teaching efforts of 28 different members of its community with the 2024–25 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards.
The winners were announced at the…
Guzel Musina, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship by the American Heart Association (AHA) for her project, “Novel optogenetics tool for the mouse embryonic…
The Cullen College of Engineering remains among the Top 50 public graduate engineering schools in the nation according to U.S. News & World Reports, coming in at #44 in the 2025 rankings released on April 8.
Cullen is ranked…
More than 60 professors from the Cullen College of Engineering were recognized for their accomplishments as scholars, researchers and academic innovators on March 31 as part of the President’s Circle Awards, presented by the…
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to announce that the following students have been named Outstanding Juniors and Seniors for their respective departments for the 2024–25 academic year.
Students are nominated by…
The Cullen College of Engineering came together on March 5 for the 11th Women in Engineering Celebration, hosted in the Shamrock Ballroom of the UH Hilton.
The event, underwritten by Cynthia Oliver Coleman, P.E. (’71), fosters a…
A total of 25 students from different organizations received more than $13,000 in scholarships and awards at the 2025 Industry Awards Night, hosted by the University of Houston’s Engineering Alumni Association at the Athletic/…
Researchers at the University of Houston, in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, are developing new devices for treating children with hyperleukocytosis, a condition that develops when the body has an extremely high…
Renee Badilla, who expects to graduate from Cullen College with her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering in 2026, will be honored with the Cynthia Oliver Coleman, P.E. Rising Star Award at this year’s Women in…
New technology developed by researchers at the University of Houston could revolutionize medical imaging and lead to faster, more precise and more cost-effective alternatives to traditional diagnostic methods.
For years, doctors…
A new way to detect colorectal cancer through wearable sensors has reached a development milestone. University of Houston researcher Zhengwei Li has recently completed a Pilot Program initiative supported by NIMHD and HEALTH-RCMI…
Kirill Larin, Cullen Endowed Professor and the interim Chairman of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2025 SPIE Biophotonics Technology…
A three-year National Science Foundation program is underway at the University of Houston’s Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnology Center. The Research…
Assistant professor of biomedical engineering Renita Horton, Ph.D., has been awarded the Lupus Research Alliance’s (LRA) Diversity in Lupus Research (DLR) Career Development Award.
Lupus is a potentially debilitating autoimmune…
Renita Horton, assistant professor in the Cullen College of Engineering’s Biomedical Engineering Department, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in the amount of $522,253 for research concerning…
Researchers at the University of Houston unveiled a groundbreaking advancement in X-ray imaging technology that could provide significant improvements in medical diagnostics, materials and industrial imaging, transportation…
Metin Akay, Ph.D., the founding chairman and the John S. Dunn Endowed Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded the 2024 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering Medicine and Biology…
Thomas Padgett, a biomedical engineering graduate from the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, earned a fellowship to attend the National Science Foundation's 21st International Summer Academy BIO-X on AI, ML,…
The Cullen College of Engineering recognized the hard work and efforts of its entire workforce at the 2023-24 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards, held during the Faculty-Staff Meeting on May 8.
For a full gallery of photos from…
REMINDER! You can view the ceremony live on YouTube by click here! Replay available shortly after as well.
Hello there to all friends and family of the Cullen College of Engineering's Spring 2024 graduation class! In honor of…
