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A team of undergraduates from the UH Cullen College of Engineering took second place at the regional Chem-E Car Competition held last month at Texas A&M University. The competition, which took place during the American…
Cullen College Places Second in Chem-E Car Competition
The Cullen College's Texas Diesel Research and Testing Center was founded, in part, to develop technologies that reduce emissions from diesel vehicles. Researchers at the center have worked to cut pollution from everything from…
Diesel Center Researching Marine Vehicle Emissions
Using a $1 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Texas Diesel Testing and Research Center at the University of Houston will retrofit Houston Independent School District school buses with a system that…
Diesel Center Researchers Earn $1M EPA Grant to Retrofit HISD School Buses
Engineers from across the United States and Mexico are set to come to the University of Houston later this month for an event honoring the late Neal Amundson. Amundson, who passed away on Feb. 16 at the age of 95, was the Cullen…
Amundson Tribute Set for March 14
The UH Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will host a talk by one of the world’s leading experts on biomaterials drug delivery and pharmaceutical bioengineering, Nicholas Peppas, on Friday, March 4. Peppas is the…
UT's Peppas to Speak at Friday's Payatakes Lecture
Neal Amundson, Cullen Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Professor of Mathematics, passed away yesterday at the age of 95. "We are deeply saddened at the great loss of Neal Amundson to our UH…
"Father of Chemical Engineering" Neal Amundson Passes Away
Eliminating tens of thousands of manual lab experiments, two University of Houston professors are working toward a method to cut the development time of new antibiotics. While current practices typically last for more than a…
Team Hopes to Cut Years Off Development Time of New Antibiotics
University of Houston professor Richard C. Willson has been named a 2010 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the…
UH Professor Richard Willson Named 2010 AAAS Fellow
For pioneering research in the areas of crystallization and protein aggregation, Peter Vekilov, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society. “This fellowship…
Professor Named Fellow of the American Physical Society
Research from a Cullen College of Engineering professor has made the cover of one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals. The research by Jeff Rimer, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular…
Cullen College Professor’s Work on Cover of Science
Discovery featured in October 8 issue of Science Sometimes, the smallest things can make a huge difference. Take something as seemingly minor as the way bacteria move. Research from UH Cullen College of Engineering Assistant…
Researcher Uncovers ‘Walking’ Bacteria
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering boasts one of the nation’s top doctoral programs in chemical engineering. That’s according to the most recent evaluation of Ph.D. programs released by The National Academies…
Chemical Engineering Shines in National Rankings
Researchers at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have received a grant to develop a method for mass-producing devices less than 10 nanometers in size, addressing one of the most significant barriers to their…
UH Researchers Developing Nanoscale Manufacturing Technique
Using a $1 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Texas Diesel Testing and Research Center at the University of Houston will retrofit school buses with a system that attempts to diminish the negative…
Diesel Center Researchers Earn EPA Grant to Retrofit School Buses
Researchers to develop, test large wind turbine blades for offshore use Efforts by the University of Houston to become a national leader in offshore wind technology received a huge boost from the U.S. Department of Energy, which…
DOE Grant to Establish Wind Facility
In cartoons and comic books they fight bad guys with the type of powers a few can only dream up in their imagination. But superheroes that protect the planet with X-ray vision, super-human strength and telepathy are not just…
Chemical Engineering Professor Doubles as Superhero
The International Symposium for Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE) has named University of Houston Professor Dan Luss the 2010 recipient of the Neal R. Amundson Award for Excellence in Chemical Reaction Engineering. One of the…
Professor Receives International Award for Chemical Reaction Engineering
An $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help fund the purchase of a cutting edge tool expected to boost nanofabrication research taking place on campus. The 50 keV Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) System will…
New Tool to Advance Research Opportunities for Area Scientists, Students
UH was one of 24 institutions that received money from the Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program in April. A competitive, peer-reviewed grant program funding science and engineering research projects by faculty members at…
Engineering Faculty Among Those From UH to Receive State ARP Funding
Each year, the university recognizes excellence in teaching, service, research and scholarship through a variety of awards given to faculty. Presented during the 32nd Annual University of Houston Faculty Awards Ceremony April…
Engineering Professors Earn Honors for Teaching, Research

 


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