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The “Dream Team” with two University of Houston students and a Texas A&M University student won third place in the international Switch Energy Alliance Competition, which focuses on addressing energy poverty around the globe.

University of Houston Students Address Energy Poverty, Shine in Global Competition The “Dream Team” with two University of Houston students and an Aggie won third place in the international Switch Competition, which focuses on addressing energy poverty around the globe.

Jeremy I. Borjon of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at UH, reports in PNAS that a baby’s first sweet sounds and early attempts at forming words are directly linked to the baby’s heart rate. The findings have implications for understanding language development and potential early indicators of speech and communication disorders.

Heart Rate Activity Influences When Infants Speak A psychologist has found that a baby’s first sweet sounds and early attempts at forming words are directly linked to the baby’s heart rate.

Yan Yao of the UH Cullen College of Engineering is the recipient of the 2025 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology. Yao was chosen for creating environmental and sustainable solutions for lithium-ion battery technology.

ECE's Yao wins 2025 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from TAMEST Forward-thinking materials scientist Yan Yao, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2025 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from TAMEST. He wa...

Three Ph.D. students in the UH College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics (NSM) have been honored with the Lydia Mendoza Fellowship from the UH Center for Mexican American and Latino/a Studies. Students receiving the fellowship must show how they help others in the Latino community through service, training, advising, research, and teaching.

Three NSM Doctoral Students Receive the Lydia Mendoza Fellowship Awardees bring representation to labs while mentoring students.

Dinler Antunes of the UH College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics (NSM), the Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, and the Health Center for Addictions Research and Cancer Prevention at UH received a grant from the National Cancer Institute to help researchers predict the risks associated with specific immunotherapies that could potentially attack healthy cells.

Personalized Cancer Treatment: UH Research Team Awarded R21 Grant to Improve Safety of Immunotherapy For Immediate Release: October 18, 2024By Alison Medley, 713.320.0933T-cell based immunotherapies have emerged as some of the most effective treatments which promote long-term survival of cancer patients. Yet, the significant potential of this treatment has been hindered by safety concerns. Through....

Edward Ratner of the UH Cullen College of Engineering has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.

UH Lecturer Earns Prestigious Honor from National Academy of Inventors Edward Ratner, a computer information systems lecturer in the Department of Information Science Technology at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.

Jason Griffin of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at UH reports that children with autism focus on faces differently than other children, especially in the early stages of visual processing. His findings may lead to improvement in face processing for those with the neurodevelopmental condition.

UH Study Finds Differences in How Children with Autism Focus on Faces A University of Houston psychology researcher is reporting that children with autism focus on faces differently than other children, especially in the early stages of visual processing. His findings may lead to improvement in face processing for those with the neurodevelopmental condition.

UH Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student Zhaoyang Chen’s research article, “Manipulating Hardness to Construct Favorable Electrode Microstructures for All-Solid-State Batteries,” was not only published in the highly-respected, peer-reviewed journal Advanced Energy Materials this November, but it also earned a spot on the issue’s cover.

ECE Ph.D. student Chen makes battery breakthrough, authors cover article in Advanced Energy Materials Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student Zhaoyang Chen’s research article, “Manipulating Hardness to Construct Favorable Electrode Microstructures for All-Solid-State Batteries,” was not only published in the highly-respected, peer-reviewed journal Advanced Energy Materials this November, b...

UH Cullen College of Engineering is partnering with Oceanit on a $3.3 million Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) funded project to improve power grid resilience by developing advanced subsurface sensing technology.

UH Team Working to Improve Installation of Underground Power Lines University of Houston is partnering with Oceanit on a $3.3 million DOE-funded project to improve power grid resilience by developing advanced subsurface sensing technology.

Galina Aglyamova of the UH College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics (NSM) has been recognized with a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Student Fellowship to determine what influences the colors and patterns that characterize poison frogs as they undergo the metamorphosis from tadpole to frog.

How Do Poison Frogs Get their Colorful Skins? Ph.D student Galina Aglyamova received a NSF Graduate Student Fellowship to further work on the question.

Radbod Darabi of the University of Houston College of Pharmacy received a grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to investigate how stem cells communicate with each other during muscle regeneration and how multicellular stem cell-based therapeutics can be designed for skeletal muscle disorders.

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With a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers from the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine and UH Cullen College of Engineering are developing a groundbreaking tool that leverages artificial intelligence to improve health behaviors and outcomes in underserved communities.

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New research from Melika Shirmohammadi of the UH Cullen College of Engineering - Technology Division indicates massive multiplayer online gamers learn by gaming and their skills in the workplace are enriched by those seemingly endless hours.

How Online Gaming Builds Real-World Skills A University of Houston study reveals how online gaming enhances workplace skills like teamwork, leadership and problem-solving.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $3.96 million to Vincent Tam of the University of Houston College of Pharmacy to outsmart superbugs by designing more effective combination therapies that can overcome their defenses.

Outsmarting Superbugs Resistant to Antibiotics A researcher is outsmarting superbugs resistant to antibiotics by designing combination therapies that can overcome their defenses.

UH Cullen College of Engineering, in collaboration with SRI, has been awarded $3.6 million by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop PRIME-Fuel, a microreactor that converts carbon dioxide into methanol using renewable energy, supporting a sustainable fuel alternative.

UH and SRI Pioneer Microreactor to Produce Sustainable Methanol Fuel University of Houston and SRI are advancing sustainable energy with a $3.6M grant to develop a microreactor that converts carbon dioxide into methanol using renewable energy.

Postdoctoral researcher Daniel Wright received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs to determine how fish respond to seasonal changes, which could offer a deeper understanding of kidney adaptation and address questions central to polar, evolutionary, biomedical and developmental biology.

Wright Receives NSF Fellowship to Study How Fish Adapt to Extreme Temperatures Fellowship for $167,800 funded through the Office of Polar Programs.

UH Architecture professors Dalia Munenzon and Matthew Johnson are launching a studio developed in partnership and funded with a $748,848 research grant from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Hines College Professors Launch Shaping the Gulf Coast of Tomorrow Studio Tackling Regional Climate Challenges Above: Students in the studio Shaping the Gulf Coast of Tomorrow visited Houston's Sheldon Lake State Park & Environmental Learning Center

The Big 12 Conference named UH College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics (NSM) physics professor and world-renowned researcher Zhifeng Ren as one of its first-ever Big 12 Faculty of the Year Award winners.

UH Physics Professor Among First-Ever Big 12 Conference Faculty of the Year Award Winners The Big 12 Conference named University of Houston physics professor and world-renowned researcher Zhifeng Ren as one of its first-ever Big 12 Faculty of the Year Award winners.