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Frank M Tiller Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Jacinta Conrad, PI, has received $259,749 in NSF funding for her proposal, Collaborative Research: Effect of Polymer…
ChBE’s Conrad Receives $250,000 for Polyelectrolyte Brush Investigation
“Authentic Community-Engaged Scholarship in STEM Education Postdoc Training Program,” a project led by principal investigator and William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering assistant professor…
ChBE’s Henderson’s $1.2M Engineering Educator Training Program Welcomes Co-PIs and 3 New Postdocs
In the rapidly evolving robotics industry, today’s robots that might appear humanlike and dexterous still can’t do what people do, lacking the ability to perform fine manipulation tasks required in factories, homes, hospitals and…
ChBE’s Karim Assists in Designing Robotic Hands for Use in Health, Agriculture, Manufacturing
Sribala Gorugantu, Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is “very excited” to mark the start of the fall semester and is…
ChBE’s Gorugantu: Assistant Professorship and The Future of Circular Plastics
The University of Houston, a global leader in energy research and innovation, will receive $8 million in federal funding to help ensure the U.S. remains at the forefront of fusion technology. UH is one of 23 institutions around…
MAE’s Selva Secures $8M in Federal Funding for Fusion Research
The University of Houston is one step closer to winning a $15 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. UH was recently named one of 29 institutions to advance to the semifinal round of the NSF Regional Innovation…
UH Advances to Semifinals in National Science Foundation Competition
Lihong Zhao, an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering, is the latest to earn a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated…
ECE’s Zhao earns Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology Zheng Fan has been awarded $549,771 for his CAREER Award proposal, Understanding the Formation of Pore-Free Interlayers through Automated in situ Diagnosis to Tame Lithium…
MET’s Fan Receives Half-Million Dollar CAREER Award
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation have funded seven team proposals for collaborative projects pairing advances in automation and AI…
ECE’s Canepa earns Scialog funding
Low-battery anxiety may soon be a little less stressful thanks to a recent discovery by researchers at the University of Houston. For decades, scientists have struggled to understand what, exactly, is happening inside a solid-…
ECE’s Yao, Zhao Recharge Battery Potential
The human body is a veritable cellular highway with up to 37 trillion cells traveling about and carrying out all essential life functions, from taking in nutrients and converting them to energy, to repairing a skinned knee. In…
UH Research Challenges Conventional Theories of How Cells Detect Electrical Fields
Pieremanuele Canepa, Robert A. Welch Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, has received a $300,000 grant from the Welch Foundation to support research…
ECE’s Canepa Earns Welch Grant for Rechargeable Batteries
REMINDER! You can view the ceremony live on YouTube by click here! A replay will be available after the ceremonies as well. Hello to all friends, family and colleagues of the Cullen College of Engineering’s Spring 2025 graduation…
2025 Cullen Spring Commencement Live Blog
Jacinta Conrad, Frank M. Tiller Professor in the Willam A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the…
ChBE’s Conrad elected as AAAS Fellow
In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers at the University of Houston have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend under pressure — without breaking. Potential…
MAE’s Rahman, Thakur Reinventing Ceramics with Origami-Inspired 3D Printing
Mim Rahimi, an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, has received an award in the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists (AAEES) 2025…
CEE’s Rahimi Receives AAEES Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Award
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…
Cullen Remains Top 50 Public Engineering College, Per U.S. News & World Reports
The man who turned the science of glow-in-the-dark stars into ways to detect disease, University of Houston Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Richard Willson, has been elected as a fellow…
ChBE’s Willson Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Cullen College of Engineering professors Birol Dindoruk, Megan Robertson and Francisco Robles Hernandez have joined the prestigious list of Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors. The University of Houston now has 39…
Three Cullen Professors Named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors
Abraham E. Dukler Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering Jeffrey Rimer has been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), a recognition that affirms the “high esteem with which his colleagues…
ChBE’s Rimer Elected AIChE Fellow