UH Research

The University of Houston’s AI and Data Science Showcase brought together 31 student teams on May 6 to demonstrate how artificial intelligence and advanced analytics can solve real-world challenges.

Showcase Prepares University of Houston Students to Lead in an AI-Driven Economy | University of Houston At UH’s AI and Data Science Showcase, student teams used advanced analytics to solve real-world challenges and prepare for an AI-driven workforce.

Engineers from the UH Cullen College of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University have developed a new mRNA-based strategy that dramatically amplifies the T-cell response to vaccines. Akash Gupta, UH assistant professor and CPRIT Scholar, is first author on the study published in Nature Biotechnology (Nature Portfolio).

New mRNA Vaccine Strategy Eradicates Tumors by Reprogramming Immune Cells UH engineers helped develop an mRNA-based strategy that boosts cancer-fighting T cells and, in mouse studies, helped eliminate tumors.

The University of Houston was one of 26 institutions across four continents officially welcomed into Axiom Space’s University Alliance — another milestone in UH’s expanding role in shaping human spaceflight and exploration.

University of Houston Joins Axiom Space Research Alliance The University of Houston has joined Axiom Space’s global University Alliance, strengthening UH’s role in microgravity research, commercial space development and the future of human spaceflight.

In research published in the JAMA Network Open, marketing professors Parthasarathy Krishnamurthy and Ye Hu of the UH Bauer College of Business identified a common flaw: most campaigns adopted a broad, universal approach rather than focusing on the individual “customer.”

New Study Suggests ‘Freedom Framing’ More Effective Than Mandates for Vaccine-Hesitant Americans New research suggests aligning public health messages with personal values like autonomy can increase vaccine acceptance by six percentage points.

Kelsie Barta of the University of Houston Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing has created a scale that measures whether lactating mothers’ psychological needs are being met, providing a tool to improve both breastfeeding outcomes and postpartum well-being.

New UH Tool Measures Whether Lactating Mothers’ Psychological Needs are Being Met A UH nursing professor has developed a new scale to better understand whether lactating mothers’ psychological needs are being met, aiming to improve breastfeeding outcomes and postpartum well-being.

The increasing number of new data centers being built in the U.S. — and the electricity they require — presents a challenge to power systems. Lei Fan of the UH Cullen College of Engineering has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore emerging computational paradigms, including quantum-classical optimization methods, that may provide new ways to address these integration challenges.

ET’s Fan Receives CAREER Award to Study Flexible Data Center Integration in Power Systems Associate Professor of Engineering Technology Lei Fan has received an NSF CAREER Award in the amount of $500,018 for his proposal, Optimal Integration of Flexible Data Centers in Power Systems via Quantum Dynamics.

Students from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at UH are helping document and preserve an important and often overlooked chapter of the Texas ranching and rodeo story through a new oral history initiative focused on Black cowboys and cowgirls across the state.

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The University of Houston College of Optometry professor, Lisa Ostrin is advancing our understanding of how atropine works and supports more precise, evidence-based, and individualized approaches to myopia management.

New Study Finds Low-Dose Eye Drops Successful in Managing Adult Myopia for 24 Hours Groundbreaking UH research shows low-dose atropine produces functional eye changes without altering ocular structure.

Haleh Ardebili of the UH Cullen College of Engineering is the University’s 20th Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

University of Houston Professor Haleh Ardebili Named Guggenheim Fellow Haleh Ardebili earns one of academia’s top honors for her work in flexible energy storage and next-generation battery technology.

Seema Khurana of the UH College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics (NSM) is senior author of a multi-institutional study that shifts the clinical focus in treating Crohn’s disease from symptom management to addressing a primary underlying cause of the condition.

UH Researchers Find Potential Breakthrough for Crohn’s Disease Treatment Researchers at UH are shifting the focus from symptom management to healing the gut barrier using existing medications.