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- 2026
- 09/14/26 UH Associate Professor Martin Nuñez Explores Why Some Trees Grow Much Faster Outside Their Native Ranges
- 08/16/26 University of Houston Biologists Awarded Nearly $1M NSF Grant to Study How Mutation Rates Evolve
- 06/15/26 GalapaGo! NSM Student Receives Gilman Scholarship for Learning Abroad Experience in the Galápagos Islands
- 06/11/26 Photo Story: CPRIT Invests Over $11 Million to Fuel UH Breakthroughs in Cancer Research
- 05/14/26 NSM Celebrates 909 Graduates at Spring 2026 Commencement
- 04/27/26 UH Researchers Discover Potential Breakthrough for Crohn’s Disease Treatment
- 03/30/26 UH Biology Student Awarded Prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship
- 03/30/26 Biology and Biochemistry Chair Named Associate Editor of Cancer Research Journal
- 03/10/26 Photo Story: Hope on the Horizon
- 02/26/26 Three NSM Faculty Members Among UH’s Seven Senior Members Named to the National Academy of Inventors
- 02/25/26 University of Houston Scientist Helps Rethink Microbial Future of Space Travel
- 02/02/26 UH Hosts Inaugural “Dementia Unlocked” Symposium
- 01/05/26 UH Researcher Receives Nearly $1M to Advance Lupus Diagnosis and Treatment
- 2025
- 12/19/25 NSM Celebrates 677 Graduates at Fall 2025 Commencement
- 12/02/25 NSM Graduate Wins UH Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award
- 11/24/25 UH Biologist Named Executive Editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology
- 10/21/25 UH Geneticist Awarded $348K NSF Grant to Decode DNA’s “Hidden Parasites”
- 10/20/25 UH Biology Student Plays Key Role in Groundbreaking Cancer Discovery
- 10/08/25 University of Houston Scientists Learn that Rare Bacterium ‘Plays Dead’ to Survive
- 08/28/25 Mary Adesina Awarded Prestigious AAUW International Fellowship for Cancer Research
- 08/13/25 UH Biologist Pens Practical Guide to Scientific Writing for Early-Career Researchers
- 07/31/25 Xiaolian Gao, Renowned UH Professor and Molecular Biologist, Dies at 70
- 06/09/25 New Dean Named for College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- 06/04/25 Sophomore Earns Research and Community Service Fellowships
- 05/27/25 University of Houston Awarded $3M to Launch Cancer Biomarker Facility for Immunotherapy Research
- 05/06/25 NSM Biology & Biochemistry Graduate Students Awarded Fellowships for Research Excellence
- 04/18/25 NSM Student Cole Woody Awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship
- 01/28/25 SACNAS Wins Outstanding Chapter for Leadership in Science Award at National Conference
- 01/10/25 Weiyi Peng Receives NSM Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
- 2024
- 12/06/24 Biology Doctoral Student Receives the Lydia Mendoza Fellowship
- 11/21/24 How Do Poison Frogs Get their Colorful Skins?
- 10/28/24 Donna Pattison Named One of HBJ’s Women Who Mean Business
- 10/21/24 Personalized Cancer Treatment: UH Research Team Awarded R21 Grant to Improve Safety of Immunotherapy
- 10/10/24 Wright Receives NSF Fellowship to Study How Fish Adapt to Extreme Temperatures
- 05/07/24 Two Biology and Biochemistry Undergraduates Featured on UH Scholars Walk
- 03/27/24 UH Research Team Awarded Pilot Program Grant from HEALTH-RCMI
- 03/25/24 Preventing Breast Cancer in Post-Partum Women
- 03/20/24 Kacie Waiters, Biochemistry Ph.D. Student, Receives Susan G. Komen ASPIRE Award
- 02/20/24 Honors Biomedical Sciences Major Rosemarie Le Featured in Provost Profiles
- 2023
- 12/16/23 Biology Ph.D. Graduate Ritu Bohat Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 11/02/23 Researcher Tackles Mysterious Z-RNA Structure and Its Potential Connection to Diseases
- 10/25/23 Researchers Seek to Uncover Genetic Mechanisms Behind Extreme Traits and Disease Resilience in Fishes
- 09/27/23 Researchers Discover Disease-Causing Stem Cells in Lungs of Cystic Fibrosis Patients
- 09/26/23 Weiyi Peng on Research Team Developing Sense-and-Respond Cancer Implant Technology
- 09/25/23 NSM Students Dominate 2023 exCITE Talks Final Round
- 09/07/23 Biology & Biochemistry Researcher Aids in Creation of Groundbreaking Report on Invasive Species
- 08/23/23 Workshop at UH Addresses Advances in Gene Editing Technology
- 08/18/23 UH Leading Multi-Institutional Program to Provide Research Opportunities to Postbaccalaureates
- 08/10/23 GalápaGo!: Students Learning Abroad
- 07/10/23 Biology Major Hadil Elldakli Wins Third Place in Poster Competition at International Meeting
- 06/14/23 Making Immunotherapy Safer
- 06/12/23 Study Identifies Potential Treatment Target for Prostate Cancer Resistant to Hormone Therapy
- 05/24/23 Medrano Receives Outstanding Woman in Science Award
- 05/17/23 Odd Cells Found in Lungs of Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- 05/10/23 Noted Science Scholar Stuart Dryer Earns 2023 Farfel Award
- 04/10/23 Biology Graduate Student Explores Cell Differentiation Mechanisms that Could Lead to Improved Disease Treatments
- 04/10/23 Mathematical Biology Major Gabrielle Kostecki Among 2023 Goldwater Scholars
- 03/29/23 UH Graduate Students Push for New Answers into Cancer Causes and Treatments
- 03/07/23 Enhancing At-Home COVID Tests with Glow-In-The Dark Materials
- 03/06/23 Biochemistry Ph.D. Student Receives Travel Award to Attend 67th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting
- 02/14/23 Two NSM Professors Named Senior Members of National Academy of Inventors
- 01/26/23 CAREER Award Opens New Doors to Understanding the Biochemical Mechanisms of Immune Surveillance at the Molecular Level
- 01/19/23 Plant Physiology Students Explore Their Creative Side
- 2022
- 12/22/22 UH Coastal Center Takes to the Air in Effort to Restore Coastal Prairie
- 12/16/22 Martin Nuñez Honored with Award for Promoting Equity in Restoration Science Research
- 10/27/22 New Insights into Biology, Origin of Deadly Stomach and Esophageal Cancers
- 10/27/22 Five NSM Undergraduate Students Compete in Final Round of exCITE Talks
- 10/17/22 UH Biology & Biochemistry Joins New National Collaborative to Better Understand Aging Differences Between Males and Females
- 08/31/22 An Educational Journey Begins Thanks to Make-A-Wish
- 08/26/22 Two Biology Students Complete UH-HEART Summer Program
- 07/26/22 BIORETS Program Trains High School Biology Teachers at UH Labs
- 07/06/22 Researchers Develop Next-Gen Cancer Therapy
- 07/01/22 Biology Post-Bac Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 06/16/22 Biochemistry Researchers Repair and Regenerate Heart Muscle Cells
- 05/24/22 Stem Cell Cloning Experts Unraveling Cystic Fibrosis
- 04/12/22 CNRCS Researcher Develops New Method for Detecting Tumor Cells
- 03/28/22 UH Researchers Find Climate Change Can Decrease Coastal Prairie Plant Diversity
- 03/21/22 CNRCS Researchers Aid in Development of Cancer Eradicating Immunotherapy in Mice
- 03/17/22 Biologists Conduct Largest Study of Parallel Evolution
- 03/08/22 New Imaging Technique Could Lead to Better Treatment of Cancers, Viral Infections
- 01/31/22 Biology and Biochemistry Graduate Student Wins UH Three Minute Thesis Competition
- 01/28/22 Hidden Life of Houston: Uncovering Urban Wildlife Activity
- 01/20/22 Assistant Dean Featured Expert in WalletHub’s Coverage of Best & Worst Metro Areas for STEM Professionals
- 01/13/22 Tuberculosis Vaccine Could Assist Future COVID-19 Vaccine Development
- 2021
- 12/21/21 Computational Biologist Aids in Development of COVID-19 Drug Screening Tool
- 12/06/21 Chemist and Biologist Develop Technique to Measure Molecular Binding Strength
- 11/17/21 Nuñez Authors Three Studies on Academic Journal’s Diversity and Inclusion
- 11/03/21 Identifying Therapeutic Targets for Aggressive HR-positive Breast Cancer
- 11/02/21 Inside NSM: Rooftop Greenhouse
- 11/01/21 Biology and Biochemistry Ph.D. Alumna Awarded NIH Diversity Grant
- 09/02/21 Ph.D. Student Receives Molecular Biophysics Predoctoral Training Fellowship
- 07/27/21 Biology and Biochemistry Alum Wins Inaugural Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 07/22/21 Study Finds Both Thermal Tolerance and Preference Associated with Fly’s Chromosomes
- 06/08/21 Four Biology and Biochemistry Students Win Fulbright Awards
- 06/02/21 Farmer and Chen Honored with Butler Excellence in Teaching Award
- 05/24/21 Willson Earns Alan S. Michaels Award in the Recovery of Biological Products
- 05/05/21 Postdoctoral Researcher Jiakai Hou Wins AACR’s Scholar-in-Training Award
- 04/30/21 94 NSM Students Participate in 2021 Undergraduate Research Day
- 04/26/21 Mathematical Biology Major Receives Critical Language Scholarship
- 04/12/21 CNRCS Researchers Find Connection Between Progesterone Receptor and Cervical Cancer
- 03/26/21 Three Biology and Biochemistry Undergrads Selected for MD Anderson Summer Program
- 01/29/21 Biology and Biochemistry Imaging Core Activates New Confocal Microscope
- 01/13/21 Examining Therapeutic Targets for Kidney Disease
- 2020
- 12/14/20 Explained: Political Polarization
- 11/10/20 UH Researcher Uses Immunotherapy Expertise to Fight Cancer and Parkinson’s Disease
- 08/31/20 Investigating Host Tolerance to Genes that Jump
- 07/14/20 COVID-19 Effort: HP Donates D300e BioPrinter to Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling
- 06/18/20 Cloning Stem Cells to Find a Cure for Crohn’s Disease
- 06/11/20 Showing Promise: Fighting COVID-19
- 05/19/20 “Coolest Spaces on Campus:” The Keeland Building Greenroof
- 04/15/20 COPD as a Lung Stem Cell Disease
- 03/25/20 Controlled Burn Promotes Biodiversity at UH Coastal Center
- 02/12/20 Biology Grad Students Seek Answers to Breast Cancer Tumor Growth
- 2019
- 11/12/19 Contraceptive Drug Shows Promise for Preventing and Regressing Cervical Cancer
- 10/14/19 Fishes and Rivers, Oh My! Biology Undergraduate Interns at NOAA
- 10/01/19 Cloning to Fight Esophageal Cancer
- 09/05/19 The Paradox of Different House Flies with Few Genetic Differences
- 09/04/19 How Do Social Networks Shape Political Decision-Making?
- 08/28/19 The Role of a Single Molecule in Obesity
- 07/24/19 NSM Undergrads Intern at Smithsonian Institute
- 06/24/19 Graur Receives Distinguished Alumnus Award
- 05/28/19 Chad Wayne Receives UH Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award
- 05/06/19 Out on the Texas Plains: Understanding Grassland Ecology
- 05/01/19 Six Biology and Biochemistry Faculty Honored at UH Faculty Excellence Awards Dinner
- 04/16/19 Grad Student Selected as MilliporeSigma Life Science Award Finalist
- 03/12/19 Unraveling the Mystery of Life: House Fly Edition
- 02/22/19 Study Demonstrates Effect of Minimal Antibiotic Exposure in Microgravity Conditions
- 02/20/19 Mangroves: A Coastal Savior?
- 02/19/19 Above-Below Ground: Plant-Herbivore Interactions
- 2018
- 12/10/18 Biology Student Awarded Tschinkel Ant Natural History Research Grant
- 10/30/18 Student Research: The Mechanism of Tolerance to Transposable Elements
- 10/09/18 Finding Therapeutic Targets to Prevent Atherosclerosis
- 10/02/18 Determining Cell Fate and the Onset of Crohn’s Disease
- 09/07/18 Biochemistry Graduate Student Awarded Predoctoral Training Fellowship
- 09/05/18 How Will Climate Change Affect Plants, Soil Microbes?
- 08/30/18 Biology Undergraduate Receives Hollings Environmental Science Scholarship
- 07/26/18 Sheikh Receives Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Grant
- 07/26/18 NSF Grant Funds Dauwalder’s Blood-Brain Barrier Research
- 07/17/18 Biology Ph.D. Student Selected as Walter Fitch Award Finalist
- 06/27/18 Why Bacteria Survive in Space – UH Biologists Discover Clues
- 06/12/18 Zufall Wins 2018 Butler Teaching Award
- 04/12/18 A Focus on Disease: The Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling
- 03/14/18 Latent Tuberculosis Infections: A Major Public Health Challenge
- 03/14/18 Researchers Link Defects in a Nuclear Receptor in the Brain to Autism Spectrum Disorders
- 03/07/18 Sumoylation: Protein Modifications in Cancer Progression
- 03/01/18 Estrogen Suspected, Examined as Cause of Cervical Cancer
- 2017
- 12/06/17 UH Cancer Researcher Focused on Tumor Development
- 10/23/17 UH Researchers Join National Effort to Study Recent Storms
- 10/06/17 Prairie Ecology: The Role of Micronutrients
- 07/31/17 UH Students Conduct Research on Galápagos Island
- 07/14/17 New Limits to Functional Portion of Human Genome Reported
- 07/14/17 In Memoriam: Peter Jurtshuk
- 06/29/17 UH Environmental Research Gets a Boost with New Designation
- 06/27/17 In Memoriam: Philip Snider
- 06/07/17 Bacterial Adaptations to Extended Time in Microgravity
- 05/15/17 Wayne Honored with NSM's Butler Teaching Award
- 2016
- 10/12/16 UH Moment: Sand Dune Restoration
- 10/12/16 UH Moment Interview: Heart Regeneration
- 09/21/16 Restoring Sand Dunes, One Microbe at a Time
- 09/06/16 Frigo Awarded $792K Grant to Support Prostate Cancer Research
- 08/10/16 UH Researchers are Pioneering Tools for Heart Regeneration
- 07/07/16 Frankino Honored With NSM's Butler Teaching Award
- 07/05/16 UH Hosts Southeast Texas Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Conference
- 06/27/16 NSF Grant Funds Research on Evolution of Social Cooperation
- 06/01/16 Biology's Tony Frankino Awarded $435,000 NSF Grant to Study Evolution of Body Proportions
- 05/23/16 Biology's George E. Fox Awarded $387K Grant to Study Origins of Life
- 05/16/16 Kelleher, Biology Faculty, Studies the Evolution of Genomic Stability
- 05/02/16 Snider to Retire after 57 Years as University Faculty
- 04/26/16 Zhang Awarded $3.5 Million in NIH Grants to Develop Cancer Therapy
- 04/21/16 UH Awards Highest Faculty Honor to Highly Regarded Professor George E. Fox
- 03/17/16 Kleberg Foundation Grant to Sater Funds Brain Injury Model
- 03/14/16 Cancer-causing Gene Triggered by Alcohol May Increase Breast Cancer Risk
- 03/01/16 Dryer Awarded 4-Year, $1.3 Million NIH Grant
- 2015
- 12/11/15 UH Research Group Discovers Alternative Mechanism for Oncogene Activation
- 12/10/15 UH Moment: Frank McKeon
- 11/19/15 Dryer, Biology Professor, Seeks to Identify Therapies for Kidney Disease
- 11/06/15 Online Graduate Course on Sea Level Rise Offered at 20 Universities
- 09/29/15 New Prostate Cancer Treatments Could Target Metabolism
- 08/24/15 Promising Target for New Drugs Found in Pancreatic Cancer Cells
- 08/13/15 Regional Ecology and Evolution Symposium to Become Annual Event
- 06/04/15 Cheating Amoebas Reveal Key to Successful Societies
- 04/08/15 St. Hilaire Participates in Undergraduate Research Day at the Texas Capitol
- 03/12/15 Preethi Gunaratne Part of SXSW Personalized Medicine Panel March 17
- 03/04/15 UH Researchers Find Link Between Flame Retardants and Obesity
- 2014
- 11/24/14 Two University of Houston Scientists Elected as AAAS Fellows
- 11/18/14 House Fly Sex May Reveal One Key to Controlling Them
- 11/06/14 Willson Named American Chemistry Society Fellow
- 10/23/14 Clinical Trials of Anti-Cancer Drug PT-112 Begin in U.S.
- 08/11/14 Fox Named Fellow in International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life
- 08/04/14 Biology's Comprehensive Student Success Program Recognized for Excellence
- 07/10/14 In PNAS: Fox, Stepanov and Colleagues Address Evolution of the Ribosome
- 05/02/14 Marisa Simon Receives Goldwater Honorable Mention
- 04/30/14 UH Moment: Brain Research and How Memories Form
- 03/19/14 Comprehensive Student Success Program in Biology
- 03/03/14 Targeting Metabolism to Develop New Prostate Cancer Treatments
- 02/26/14 Healthy Rivers Make Healthy Marshes
- 2013
- 11/27/13 Discoveries in How Memories Form Could Help Treat Dementia
- 11/13/13 UH Researchers Working to Slow Down Memory Loss in Alzheimer's
- 10/30/13 Timothy Cooper: NSF CAREER Award Recipient
- 10/16/13 New Diagnostics, Treatments for Breast Cancer Investigated at UH
- 09/24/13 Biology and Biochemistry and Civil and Environmental Engineering Offer Massive Online Graduate Course Linking Biology and Geomorphology
- 08/20/13 Fox Lab Publishes on Bacillus pumilus and Extreme Radiation Resistance
- 07/01/13 Identifying Phosphoproteins Interaction Signatures in Cell Responses Related to Breast Cancer
- 05/08/13 Mindrebo Presents Poster at 'Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol'
- 04/26/13 Lindsey Brier Named 2013-14 Goldwater Scholar
- 03/20/13 Dryer Elected Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology
- 01/14/13 Uncovering Bacterial Survival Strategy
- 2012
- 12/12/12 Graduate Student Symposium Held December 7
- 12/11/12 Ziburkus Receives Two-Year Grant from Alzheimer's Association
- 12/10/12 UH Biology Ph.D. Student Receives NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
- 08/22/12 Researchers Succeed in Reprogramming Skin Cells as Heart Cells
- 05/31/12 Early-Career Grant Supports Research on Ribosomes
- 03/09/12 Dr. Snider Receives Honorary Membership in Golden Key International Honour Society
- 03/07/12 UH Study: BP Oil Spill Hurt Salt Marshes, but Recovery Possible
- 01/20/12 PNAS Classic Article Covers 1977 Evolutionary Biology Paper Co-Authored by UH's George Fox
- 2011
- 09/29/11 UH Researchers Explain Hormonal Role in Glucose and Fat Metabolism
- 09/20/11 UH Scientists Visit Coastal Wetlands in China
- 07/08/11 UH Researcher an Author on Landmark Ovarian Cancer Study in Nature
- 06/02/11 Work by UH Evolutionary Biologist May One Day Help with Chronic Diseases
- 01/12/11 Nuclear Receptors Reveal Possible Interventions for Cancer, Obesity