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Researchers share video of their Advanced Naval Technology Exercise Discretion is an integral part of covert reconnaissance missions. With that in mind, a team of UH Cullen College of Engineering researchers are working on a $1…
UH Engineers Test Biodegradable Self-Guided Reconnaissance Devices
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three-year grant to a UH Cullen College of Engineering research team led by Alamgir Karim, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. The team’s project, titled “Ordering…
UH Engineer Alamgir Karim leads game-changing project to advance copolymer production
UH Cullen College of Engineering part of the conference program The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), one of the largest energy expositions and the world’s foremost event for the development of offshore resources, is…
Offshore Technology Conference Celebrates 50 Years
B Cells Gone Bad Could be the Culprit in Rheumatoid Arthritis Biomolecular researcher Navin Varadarajan recently published in Arthritis & Rheumatology journal a first-of-its-kind study -  a comprehensive profile of B cells in…
Getting Closer: Finding Out Why the Immune System Attacks Itself
T-Cell Editor Creating Powerful Immunotherapy Weapon As part of a $6 million effort to establish new therapies for high-risk pediatric liver cancer, Navin Varadarajan, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering…
Establishing Immunotherapy For Pediatric Liver Cancer
UH Cullen College’s REU Programs Focus on Materials Science, Neurotechnologies For 10 weeks over the summer, undergraduate students from across the U.S. became bonafide engineering researchers, working alongside some of UH Cullen…
Undergrads From Across the Country Work As UH Engineering Researchers Over Summer
Palmer uses programming experience to crack scientific stalemate A scientific quest, started with genuine curiosity and a passion for research, turned into a Hatfield-McCoy style feud that lasted seven years.  This legendary…
UH Professor Discovers Issue at the Root of Seven-Year Water Dispute
UH Researchers Receive $3.5 M to Find Best Combinations of Antibiotics Two UH researchers have won a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop technology that will…
A New Take on Fighting Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria
Rimer: ‘Understanding Formation Process of Zeolites is Key.’ About 20 percent of the electricity produced in the United States of America is generated at nuclear power plants, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (…
UH Engineer Part of $800K DOE Study Targeting Safer Storage for Nuclear Waste
What’s not to like about U.S. produced fuel that’s affordable, better for the environment and readily available? The producers of BYUradio's "Top of Mind with Julie Rose," a daily, live news talk and interview show, liked the…
National Radio Show Interviews Chemical Engineering Chairman About a Natural Gas Catalyst For Boosting Clean, Affordable Transportation
UH Engineers Focus on Degradable Reconnaissance Vehicles and Evasive Drone Maneuvers Ensuring military forces have up-to-date information about a potentially hostile region offers obvious advantages, but current methods for doing…
Mission: Possible — Mapping Dangerous Terrain
UH Engineer Says DOE-Funded Work Will Capture Methane, Other Emissions Thanks to advances in drilling technology, there is enough natural gas in the U.S. to last well into next century and beyond. This has renewed the idea of…
New Natural Gas Catalyst Would Boost Clean Transportation
Wins National Award to Further Research With a perfect score on his research proposal, chemical and biomolecular engineering researcher Mehmet Orman received the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)…
Researcher Takes New Approach to Antibiotic Tolerance
A Cullen College of Engineering professor, who is working to improve treatments for battling cancer, received a grant from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), the organization that funds…
Chemical Engineer Wins CPRIT to Improve Effectiveness of Cancer Immunotherapy
Researchers Say Emerging Technologies Could Greatly Reduce Plastic Waste Most of the 150 million tons of plastics produced around the world every year end up in landfills, the oceans and elsewhere. Less than 9 percent of plastics…
Scientific Advances Can Make it Easier to Recycle Plastics
The Test Kit Uses a Smartphone to Test for Kidney Inflammation With a four-year $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), two University of Houston engineering professors are developing a home test kit for…
Researchers Developing Home Test Kit for Lupus Nephritis Flares
A team of researchers led by a UH chemical and biomolecular engineer will design microorganisms that can convert natural gas liquids (NGLs) into useful products more efficiently than current technologies. The National Science…
Designing Microorganisms to Convert Natural Gas Liquids into Useful Products
Navin Varadarajan receives National Science Foundation award to boost effectiveness of immunotherapy Back in the days when all medicines were made out of chemicals found in nature, manufacturing drugs was somewhat of a breeze.…
Biomanufacturing the Next Generation of Cancer-Killing Immune Cells
For UH chemical engineer Navin Varadarajan, it isn’t enough to conduct laboratory research, publish papers, earn grants and win awards for his work in immunotherapy, which utilizes the body’s own immune cells to attack tumors.…
Department of Defense Awards UH Engineer for Career in Advancing Immunotherapy
Two professors at the UH Cullen College of Engineering have discovered that size is critical to the performance of the monolayers of catalysts, the fundamental substance that speeds up reactions in all industries from…
Engineering Professors Discover Fundamental Effect in Monolayer Catalysts