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• 2026
• 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
• 02/19/26 Remembering Chemistry Professor Simon Bott
• 02/16/26 teachHOUSTON Awarded NSF Grant to Address STEM Teacher Retention in High-Need Schools
• 02/09/26 Tai-Yen Chen Named 2026 ACS Rising Star for Pioneering Work in Cellular Imaging and Copper Biology
• 02/04/26 University of Houston Researcher Helps Unlock Rare Antarctic Glacier Record
• 02/03/26 DOE Award Supports UH Doctoral Student’s Arctic Climate Research
• 02/02/26 UH Hosts Inaugural “Dementia Unlocked” Symposium
• 02/02/26 Photo Story: Meet the UH Alum Leading NSM Student Success
• 01/06/26 AI and Data Science Showcase Winners Spotlight Health & Environment Challenges
• 01/05/26 UH Researcher Receives Nearly $1M to Advance Lupus Diagnosis and Treatment
• 2025
• 12/22/25 Meng-Chen (Martin) Lee Recognized for Award-Winning Multimodal Interaction Research
• 12/19/25 NSM Celebrates 677 Graduates at Fall 2025 Commencement
• 12/19/25 Rabimba Karanjai Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award for Fall 2025
• 12/18/25 NSM Computer Scientists Earn Distinguished Paper Award for AI Tool That Detects and Repairs Code in Real Time
• 12/18/25 University of Houston Chemist Awarded Nearly $2M to Decode Light-Activated Chemistry
• 12/11/25 UH Chemistry Professor Earns Prestigious Honor from National Academy of Inventors
• 12/09/25 Lifesaving Skills Lead to National Recognition for UH Student and Campus Rec Instructor
• 12/08/25 Global Impact: University of Houston Researchers Again Named to Prestigious Highly Cited List
• 12/04/25 DOE Early Career Award Backs UH Physicist’s Quest to Map Extreme Nuclear Matter
• 12/03/25 University of Houston to Launch Ph.D. in Statistics and Data Science
• 12/02/25 NSM Graduate Wins UH Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award
• 12/01/25 Mini Das Named 2026 Optica Fellow
• 11/26/25 UH Researchers Unveil X-Ray Breakthrough That Captures 3 Image-Contrast Types in a Single Shot
• 11/24/25 UH Biologist Named Executive Editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology
• 11/21/25 UH Chemist Advances Heavy Metal-Free Synthesis with $400,000 NSF Grant
• 11/20/25 UH Physics Students Earn Top Honors for Research at Regional APS Meeting
• 11/13/25 SACNAS UH Named Best Chapter in the Nation
• 11/11/25 Data and Determination: John Adesola Excels in the Classroom and on the World Stage
• 11/11/25 NASA Funds UH Study to Uncover Jupiter’s Hidden Energy Balance
• 11/10/25 Computer Science Doctoral Students Shine at International AI Conference
• 11/10/25 Quantum Initiative Comes to UH
• 11/05/25 University of Houston Reaffirmed as National Center of Cybersecurity Excellence
• 10/27/25 Graduate Students Showcase Cutting-Edge Research at NSM’s Three-Minute Thesis Competition
• 10/24/25 UH Researchers Help Break Thermal Conductivity Barrier with Boron Arsenide Discovery
• 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
• 10/20/25 NSM Celebrates Legacy and Leadership at 2025 da Vinci Society and Distinguished Alumni Recognition Dinner
• 10/15/25 Touching Your Face May Reveal Hidden Stress, University of Houston Study Finds
• 10/08/25 University of Houston Scientists Learn that Rare Bacterium ‘Plays Dead’ to Survive
• 09/25/25 Jiaxuan Li is 2025 AGU Seismology Keiiti Aki Early Career Award Recipient
• 09/08/25 UH Mathematician Selected as Recipient for Cardiology Research Award
• 09/01/25 UH Chemist Named Associate Editor for Chemistry of Materials
• 08/28/25 Mary Adesina Awarded Prestigious AAUW International Fellowship for Cancer Research
• 08/26/25 From NSM to Barton College: Russell’s Journey of Innovation and Leadership
• 08/15/25 Computer Science Ph.D. Student Earns Awards for Artificial Intelligence
• 08/13/25 UH Biologist Pens Practical Guide to Scientific Writing for Early-Career Researchers
• 08/11/25 Wellner Appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
• 08/01/25 Thomas K. Bjorklund, Esteemed Petroleum Geologist and UH Researcher, Dies at 87
• 08/01/25 UH EAS Alum Jingjing Zong Receives SEG Karcher Award for Excellence in Geophysics
• 08/01/25 UH Computer Scientist Wins Best Paper Award at Prestigious PODC Conference
• 07/31/25 Xiaolian Gao, Renowned UH Professor and Molecular Biologist, Dies at 70
• 07/21/25 UH Researchers to Develop AI to Aid in Emergency Food Distribution
• 07/15/25 UH Physics Professor Reimagines Seismic Exploration
• 07/08/25 NSM Career Center Earns Spotlight for Transforming STEM Talent Development
• 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
• 05/13/25 Yang Lu Earns International Recognition for Cybersecurity Research at ACM Applied Computing Symposium
• 05/13/25 Computer Science Ph.D. Graduate Vuong Dustin Nguyen Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 05/09/25 NSM Celebrates More Than 800 Graduates at Spring 2025 Commencement
• 05/05/25 Prize Winners Announced at 60th TCSUH Student Research Symposium
• 05/01/25 NSM Professor to Lead Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
• 04/30/25 Pint of Science Festival Returns to Houston May 19–21, Featuring UH NSM
• 04/30/25 UH/UC Researchers Use Machine Learning to Map Brain Changes from Heroin Addiction
• 04/29/25 UH Students Explore the Edge of Space Through NASA’s USIP Program
• 04/23/25 UH Doctoral Student Muhammad Arslan Honored with ACS POLY Travel Award
• 04/22/25 Tracking Volcanoes by the Minute: NSM Professor’s Research Published in Science
• 04/18/25 NSM Student Cole Woody Awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship
• 04/10/25 UH NSM Physicists Receive 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
• 04/03/25 NSM Professor’s World-Changing Nuclear Physics Research Fueled by $2.5 Million in Funding
• 03/06/25 UH Alumnus to be Inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame
• 02/27/25 NASA Grant Awarded to UH NSM Alumnus
• 02/25/25 UH Researchers Paving the Way for New Era in Medical Imaging
• 02/10/25 UH Physicists Hit Major Milestone in Advancing Superconductor Applications
• 02/05/25 University of Houston Scientist Hopes to Alter Understanding of Lake Formations
• 01/28/25 SACNAS Wins Outstanding Chapter for Leadership in Science Award at National Conference
• 01/28/25 White House Recognizes UH’s Donna Stokes for Excellence in STEM Mentoring
• 01/23/25 To the Ends of the Earth
• 2024
• 12/19/24 University of Houston Scientists Solving Meteorological Mysteries on Mars
• 12/14/24 NSM Students Participate in Fall Commencement
• 12/06/24 Three NSM Doctoral Students Receive the Lydia Mendoza Fellowship
• 11/21/24 How Do Poison Frogs Get their Colorful Skins?
• 11/20/24 Fall 2024: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 11/11/24 UH Physics Professor Among First-Ever Big 12 Conference Faculty of the Year Award Winners
• 11/07/24 UH’s STEM RISE Program Recognized with Insight into Diversity Magazine’s 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award
• 10/31/24 UH Geologists Find Significant Texas Coastal Impacts from Hurricane Beryl
• 10/29/24 Seeking Answers about the State of Matter
• 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
• 10/09/24 Students Immersed in Cardiovascular Research through the UH-CURE Summer Program
• 10/03/24 Byron Freelon Named Fulbright Scholar for Work in Brazil
• 09/27/24 TC Energy Award $5,000 Scholarships to Four STEM Students
• 08/29/24 Chemistry Professor Receives Prestigious Cottrell Plus SEED Research Award
• 08/15/24 Summer 2024: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 08/14/24 UH Researchers Unveil Groundbreaking Technique in X-Ray Imaging
• 08/08/24 Student-Focused STEM Program Celebrates Partnership Milestone
• 07/31/24 A New View of How the Ocean Melts Antarctica’s Ice Shelves
• 07/18/24 Ren Receives ITS Outstanding Achievement in Thermoelectrics Award
• 06/18/24 UH Scientists Discover Massive Energy Imbalance on Saturn
• 06/05/24 teachHOUSTON Awarded $3 Million to Address STEM Teacher Shortage
• 06/03/24 UH Team Wins Third Place at the Imperial Barrel Award Global Finals on May 31
• 06/03/24 University of Houston Study Shows Electric Vehicles Can Have Positive Impact on Air Quality and Public Health in Some Cities, Not All
• 05/31/24 Physicist to Collaborate with NASA to Gain Better Understanding of Neutron Stars
• 05/24/24 Caleb Broodo Selected for DOE Graduate Student Research Program
• 05/16/24 A Powerful Tool Speeds Success in Achieving Highly Efficient Thermoelectric Materials
• 05/10/24 More than 700 NSM Degree Candidates Honored at UH Commencement
• 05/06/24 Chemistry Postdoc Said Jalife Jacobo Named Research Corporation for Science Advancement Fellow
• 04/29/24 University of Houston Hydride Research Pushes Frontiers of Practical, Accessible Superconductivity
• 04/29/24 Unraveling Mysteries of the Atmosphere: Physics Students Manage Experiments at Auroral Research Program
• 04/26/24 Sixteen NSM Faculty and Two Graduate Students Honored with UH Faculty Excellence and Research Excellence Awards
• 04/26/24 Zhifeng Ren Receives UH’s Farfel Award
• 04/23/24 Geophysicists Join Effort to Restore Historic Fifth Ward Cemetery
• 04/18/24 Spring 2024: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 04/15/24 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner: John D. Weete
• 04/05/24 Safe Solar Eclipse Viewing Offered on UH Campus
• 04/04/24 University of Houston Researchers Confirm Ozone & Particulates are Issues in San Antonio Air
• 03/28/24 UH Chemist Receives CAREER Award to Advance Development of Biodegradable Plastics
• 03/21/24 Geophysics Ph.D. Student’s Research is a Game Changer for Oil and Gas Exploration
• 03/20/24 Kacie Waiters, Biochemistry Ph.D. Student, Receives Susan G. Komen ASPIRE Award
• 03/14/24 Summer Program Builds Next-Generation Cardiovascular Researchers
• 03/08/24 FIELDGeo Program Invites Undergraduates to See Rock Formations the Way Geologists Do
• 02/26/24 Antarctica’s Retreating Glaciers: Study Suggests Significant Glacial Retreat in West Antarctica Began in 1940s
• 02/23/24 Physics Ph.D. Student Earns Department of Energy Fellowship at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• 02/20/24 Honors Biomedical Sciences Major Rosemarie Le Featured in Provost Profiles
• 02/13/24 In Memoriam: Yuri Alexeevich Kuznetsov, 1945-2024
• 01/26/24 Atmospheric Scientist Explores New Drought Prediction Models
• 01/24/24 Art on the Prairie: Collaboration and Conservation
• 01/19/24 University of Houston Joins Smart Hub, a $5M Department of Defense Consortium
• 01/04/24 To Boldly Go
• 01/04/24 STEM Experiments in a Virtual World
• 01/04/24 On Top of Science at the Bottom of the World
• 01/04/24 Against the Odds
• 01/04/24 Strange Science
• 01/04/24 Rewarding Research
• 01/04/24 Tracking a Pandemic
• 01/04/24 Going Coastal
• 01/04/24 Cybercrime Fighters
• 2023
• 12/21/23 Computer Science Professors Pandurangan, Pavlidis Earn IEEE Fellow Status
• 12/20/23 Trio of EAS Professors Chosen for AAPG Distinguished Lecture Program
• 12/16/23 NSM Students Participate in Fall Commencement
• 12/15/23 American Chemical Society Honors UH Chemist for Work to Promote STEM
• 12/12/23 Atmospheric Sciences Tools Expand Air Quality Data Collection Possibilities
• 11/29/23 UH Physicists Secure $1.5 Million to Study Particles that Could Solve Mysteries of the Universe
• 11/29/23 Fall 2023: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 11/20/23 Students Peer into the Future of Technology at the Inaugural UH Quantum Computing Fall Fest
• 11/16/23 Youtong Zheng Earns Department of Energy Early Career Award to Study Correlation Between Air Pollution and Storm Strength
• 11/15/23 Repeat! Physicists Ren and Chen on List of Researchers Named Most Cited in the World
• 11/14/23 UH Physicist, Wife, Make $1.4M Gift for Advancement of Scientific Research and Education
• 11/09/23 Computer Science Researchers Use Machine Learning to Identify and Predict Cyberattacks
• 11/06/23 A Cutting-Edge Approach to Tackling Pollution in Houston and Beyond
• 11/02/23 Researcher Tackles Mysterious Z-RNA Structure and Its Potential Connection to Diseases
• 10/30/23 UH Chemist Melissa Zastrow Receives Saltman Award for Research in Bioinorganic Chemistry
• 10/30/23 Student Organization Honored Nationally for Work to Promote Diversity in STEM
• 10/25/23 Researchers Seek to Uncover Genetic Mechanisms Behind Extreme Traits and Disease Resilience in Fishes
• 10/23/23 CenterPoint Energy New Teacher Academy Prepares Recent STEM Graduates for Classroom
• 10/12/23 University of Houston Secures $1.6 Million Grant to Advance STEM Education for Underserved High School Students
• 10/04/23 International Summer School in Brazil Gives Ali Raza Rare Research Opportunity
• 10/04/23 Gates Foundation Awards UTeach Institute $1 Million to Prepare Much-Needed STEM Teachers for Texas
• 09/28/23 Finding Critical Minerals Could Get Easier with UH Geological Research Team’s Discovery
• 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
• 09/15/23 teachHOUSTON Recognized Nationally for Efforts to Increase STEM Teacher Diversity
• 09/14/23 UH Research Team Awarded $4M to Convert Plastic Waste into Useful Materials
• 09/13/23 General Motors Supports teachHOUSTON and UH’s Third Ward Initiative
• 09/13/23 With $5 Million Grant, The Welch Center for Advanced Bioactive Materials Crystallization is Formed at University of Houston
• 09/11/23 Atmospheric Scientists Reveal Much of Houston’s Ozone Exceedance Due to Air Flows from the North
• 09/07/23 Biology & Biochemistry Researcher Aids in Creation of Groundbreaking Report on Invasive Species
• 09/06/23 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Named to Inaugural Cohort of UH-Chevron Energy Graduate Fellows
• 08/30/23 NASA Program Gives Students New Perspective on Environmental Research from the Air and Ground
• 08/29/23 TC Energy Summer Scholars Academy Offers Incoming Freshmen Help with Transition to College
• 08/24/23 Sediment Movement During Hurricane Harvey Could Negatively Impact Future Flooding, Prove Costly to Houston, UH Study Finds
• 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
• 08/15/23 Physics Graduate Student Uses Fellowship to Explore the Future of Technology Through Magnets
• 08/15/23 Team Studies Outdoor Air Movement and the Effects on Spread of Respiratory Diseases
• 08/10/23 GalápaGo!: Students Learning Abroad
• 07/19/23 Unlocking the Power of Molecular Crystals: A Possible Solution to Nuclear Waste
• 07/19/23 UH Students Examine Climate, Environmental Changes Through Experiments in Alaska
• 07/11/23 NSM Mourns the Passing of Former Dean Roy Weinstein
• 07/05/23 Researchers Find Hidden Micro-Stressors in Routine Driving
• 06/26/23 Study: Wildfire Smoke Downwind Affects Health, Wealth and Mortality
• 06/22/23 Summer 2023: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 06/15/23 University of Houston Researcher Awarded $1.2M Grant to Assess Impacts of Biomass Burning on Texas Air Quality
• 06/14/23 Making Immunotherapy Safer
• 06/12/23 Study Identifies Potential Treatment Target for Prostate Cancer Resistant to Hormone Therapy
• 06/07/23 Croix Laconsay Chosen for American Chemical Society CAS Future Leaders Program
• 05/31/23 Damon Spencer Earns National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
• 05/24/23 CAREER Award Benefits UH Chemist’s Research into Brain Cells and Degenerative Diseases
• 05/24/23 Medrano Receives Outstanding Woman in Science Award
• 05/17/23 Odd Cells Found in Lungs of Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
• 05/12/23 More than 750 NSM Degree Candidates Honored at UH Commencement
• 05/10/23 Journey to the Smithsonian: Andrew Flynn Earns Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 05/10/23 Inside NSM: Observatory
• 05/10/23 Noted Science Scholar Stuart Dryer Earns 2023 Farfel Award
• 05/04/23 Six NSM Faculty Honored with UH Faculty Excellence and Research Excellence Awards
• 05/01/23 Silver Nanoparticles Spark Key Advance in Thermoelectricity for Power Generation
• 04/24/23 Fear Not the Deadlines, New Research Finds
• 04/24/23 Using Superconductors to Move People, Cargo and Energy Through One Combined System
• 04/20/23 Zhifeng Ren Elected 2023 MRS Fellow, Honored with Materials Science Leader Award
• 04/20/23 Researchers Develop Safety Monitoring System for Construction Sites
• 04/10/23 Mathematical Biology Major Gabrielle Kostecki Among 2023 Goldwater Scholars
• 04/10/23 Biology Graduate Student Explores Cell Differentiation Mechanisms that Could Lead to Improved Disease Treatments
• 04/10/23 Dr. John T. Hardy: A Life of Scholarship, Teaching and Service
• 04/03/23 New UH Project Combats Food Insecurity Through AI
• 03/29/23 UH Graduate Students Push for New Answers into Cancer Causes and Treatments
• 03/29/23 Study Finds Sulfate Pollution Impacts Texas Gulf Coast Air
• 03/13/23 UH Doctoral Student Helps Create Improved AI Method for Measuring Surface Nitrogen Dioxide Levels
• 03/01/23 UH Geologist Virginia Sisson Earns AAPG’s Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award
• 02/20/23 UH STEM RISE Addresses Opportunity Gaps for High School Students in Third Ward
• 02/14/23 Two NSM Professors Named Senior Members of National Academy of Inventors
• 02/10/23 UH Geologist Receives CAREER Award to Explore Effects of Climate Change on River Systems
• 02/02/23 CAREER Award Opens New Opportunities for Chemist to Study the Roles of Metals in the Gastrointestinal Tract
• 02/01/23 NSM Internship Bootcamp Gives Students the Upper Hand on Career Building
• 01/31/23 UH Scientist Eric Bittner Elected as AAAS Fellow
• 01/26/23 CAREER Award Opens New Doors to Understanding the Biochemical Mechanisms of Immune Surveillance at the Molecular Level
• 01/25/23 Winter 2023: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 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
• 12/17/22 NSM Students Participate in Fall Commencement
• 12/16/22 Martin Nuñez Honored with Award for Promoting Equity in Restoration Science Research
• 12/15/22 Physics World Cites UH Research Among Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2022
• 12/14/22 UH Recognized for Exemplary Support Services for STEM Students
• 12/07/22 Artificial Intelligence is Changing How Students Learn
• 11/17/22 Physicists Ren and Chen on List of Researchers Named Most Cited in the World
• 11/15/22 Physics Student Earns Graduate Fellowship from UH Center for Mexican American and Latino/a Studies
• 11/08/22 CenterPoint Energy New Teacher Academy at UH Empowers New STEM Teachers
• 10/31/22 Heavens on Earth: What Our Solar System Reveals About Our Home Planet
• 10/29/22 Student Organization Receives National Award for STEM Diversity
• 10/27/22 Five NSM Undergraduate Students Compete in Final Round of exCITE Talks
• 10/27/22 New Insights into Biology, Origin of Deadly Stomach and Esophageal Cancers
• 10/17/22 UH Biology & Biochemistry Joins New National Collaborative to Better Understand Aging Differences Between Males and Females
• 10/11/22 Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in Houston Suburbs
• 10/11/22 American Physical Society Awards Carlos R. Ordonez with Edward A. Bouchet Award
• 09/26/22 New UH Mentoring Scholarship Program Aims to Fill Future Demand for STEM Jobs
• 09/16/22 Hurricanes and Pollution: Studying a Connection
• 09/13/22 Atmospheric Scientists Study Under-Researched Role of Clouds in Regulating Earth’s Temperature
• 09/09/22 UH Hosting Lecture by ‘Father of Environmental Justice’ Robert D. Bullard
• 09/08/22 New Catalyst Offers a More Affordable Way to Produce Hydrogen from Seawater
• 08/31/22 An Educational Journey Begins Thanks to Make-A-Wish
• 08/26/22 Two Biology Students Complete UH-HEART Summer Program
• 08/22/22 STEM RISE Opens Doors for High School Students to Explore Paths to Science Careers
• 08/01/22 Mathematics Assistant Professor Andreas Mang Receives CAREER Award
• 07/26/22 BIORETS Program Trains High School Biology Teachers at UH Labs
• 07/21/22 Researchers Report Major Advance in Semiconductor Materials
• 07/18/22 Geophysicists Use Machine Learning to Study Formation of Oceanic Plateaus
• 07/14/22 New UH Program Helps Third Ward Students Build STEM Skills
• 07/13/22 Wenjiang Fu Awarded U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Senior Research Fellowship
• 07/11/22 Shruti Hariyani, Chemistry Ph.D. Student, Receives P.E.O. Scholar Award
• 07/08/22 NMSI and UH Receive CenterPoint Energy Foundation Grant to Launch Academy Supporting First-Year STEM Teachers
• 07/06/22 Researchers Develop Next-Gen Cancer Therapy
• 07/05/22 Tracing Pollution’s Impact on Thunderstorms in Houston
• 07/01/22 Biology Post-Bac Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• 06/27/22 Science by Cyborg Teams: Destiny of Science Modeled and Explained in New Study
• 06/21/22 Summer 2022: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 06/16/22 Biochemistry Researchers Repair and Regenerate Heart Muscle Cells
• 06/13/22 TC Energy Summer Scholars Outperform Peers, Program Kicks Off for Third Year
• 06/09/22 New UH Program Transforms STEM Pros into STEM Teachers
• 05/26/22 Bittner Named Ulam Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 05/24/22 Stem Cell Cloning Experts Unraveling Cystic Fibrosis
• 05/24/22 Fourteen Undergraduates Conduct Physics and Geoscience Experiments in Alaska
• 05/19/22 Thomas Carroll Awarded UH Undergraduate Student Employee of the Year
• 05/17/22 Math Undergraduate to Work as Fellow at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• 05/16/22 Buildup of Solar Heat Likely Contributes to Mars’ Dust Storms, Researchers Find
• 05/13/22 More than 650 NSM Degree Candidates Honored at Spring UH Commencement
• 05/10/22 Physics Ph.D. Student Awarded Fellowship at Berkeley Lab
• 05/09/22 Air Pollution Dropped During Pandemic Lockdowns
• 05/06/22 Nouhad Rizk Named 2022 Piper Professor
• 05/06/22 Seven NSM Faculty Honored with UH Faculty Excellence and Research Excellence Awards
• 05/04/22 UH Researchers Make Inroads in Converting Seawater to Green Hydrogen
• 04/26/22 Specially Sourced Argon May Soon Whisper Secrets About Universe’s Dark Matter
• 04/21/22 Graduate Student Awarded Department of Defense Scholarship, Internship and Guaranteed Employment
• 04/20/22 71 NSM Students Present at UH Undergraduate Research Day
• 04/12/22 Inside NSM: Glass Shop
• 04/12/22 CAREER Award Ignites Computer Scientist’s Research and Outreach Goals
• 04/12/22 CNRCS Researcher Develops New Method for Detecting Tumor Cells
• 03/30/22 Vaughn Climenhaga Named Simons Fellow
• 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
• 03/09/22 Working to Revolutionize the Way We Live
• 03/08/22 New Imaging Technique Could Lead to Better Treatment of Cancers, Viral Infections
• 03/07/22 Chemistry Faculty Member Aims to Develop Precise Cell Delivery Technology
• 02/28/22 Math Contest Sets New Participation Records
• 02/24/22 National Academy of Engineering Welcomes UH Research Professor of Geophysics Leon Thomsen
• 02/18/22 Research Institute Awards Min Ru a Diophantine Geometry Research Professorship
• 02/16/22 Doctoral Student Lands Second Internship with NASA
• 02/14/22 Flynn Named a Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors
• 02/10/22 Thirty-seven NSM Faculty Honored for Major Grant Award and Patent Achievements
• 02/01/22 Publication Elevates Voices of Indigenous Scientists
• 01/31/22 Biology and Biochemistry Graduate Student Wins UH Three Minute Thesis Competition
• 01/28/22 University of Houston Mourns Passing of Roland Glowinski
• 01/28/22 Hidden Life of Houston: Uncovering Urban Wildlife Activity
• 01/26/22 UH Researcher Collects Data from Tonga Volcanic Eruption
• 01/26/22 Winter 2022: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 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
• 01/12/22 Hariyani: A Shining Star at UH’s Chemistry Department
• 01/07/22 Mini Das Named SPIE Fellow
• 2021
• 12/22/21 UH Researchers Publish Study on Student Engagement Before and After Pandemic
• 12/21/21 Computational Biologist Aids in Development of COVID-19 Drug Screening Tool
• 12/18/21 NSM Students Participate in Fall Commencement
• 12/15/21 Zhigang Deng Named ACM Distinguished Member
• 12/07/21 Department of Education Funds Development of Cybersecurity Faculty
• 12/07/21 Ignatiev Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
• 12/06/21 Chemist and Biologist Develop Technique to Measure Molecular Binding Strength
• 12/02/21 New Program Addresses Demand for Data Science Workforce in Energy Industry
• 12/02/21 Three UH Professors Named Highly Cited Researchers for 2021
• 12/01/21 Thirty-four NSM Faculty Celebrated for 50-in-5 Achievements
• 11/23/21 Real-Time COVID-19 Infection Risk Assessment
• 11/18/21 Physics Associate Professor Studies Giant Planets’ Weather with New Funding
• 11/17/21 Nuñez Authors Three Studies on Academic Journal’s Diversity and Inclusion
• 11/15/21 STEM RISE: New Partnership Provides Research Opportunities to Third Ward Students
• 11/11/21 Mathematics Professor Teaming Up with Biologists to Model Bacterial Divisions
• 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
• 10/20/21 Photo Story: Keeping an Eye on ALICE
• 10/15/21 Atmospheric Science Doctoral Student Awarded NASA Future Investigators Grant
• 10/15/21 American Physical Society Names Ratti as 2021 APS Fellow
• 10/11/21 Fulbright, NSF Awards Physics Ph.D.
• 09/27/21 Does Pollution Make Thunderstorms More Severe?
• 09/27/21 Ph.D. Computer Science Student Awarded DAAD RISE Professional Scholarship
• 09/21/21 UH Joins International Project to Develop History-Making Software for Scientists
• 09/17/21 Harth Named American Chemical Society Fellow
• 09/02/21 Ph.D. Student Receives Molecular Biophysics Predoctoral Training Fellowship
• 09/02/21 Inside NSM: Rock and Mineral Collection
• 08/19/21 Summer 2021: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 08/19/21 Chemistry Ph.D. Grad Ponnapati Recognized as OTC Emerging Leader
• 08/12/21 Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. Student Wraps Up Internship with NOAA
• 08/09/21 Geology Graduate Wins 2021 AAPG Jules Braunstein Memorial Award
• 08/04/21 New Research Hub Aims to Uncover the Innermost Secrets of Neutron Stars
• 07/27/21 Biology and Biochemistry Alum Wins Inaugural Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 07/26/21 Meet Estefannie: YouTuber and Computer Science Alum
• 07/22/21 Training the Next Generation of ‘CyberCops’
• 07/22/21 Study Finds Both Thermal Tolerance and Preference Associated with Fly’s Chromosomes
• 07/19/21 May Receives Chemical Synthesis NSF Grant for Carbon Bond Forming Research
• 07/08/21 The Pressure Is Off and High Temperature Superconductivity Remains
• 07/02/21 Three EAS Faculty to Receive Awards at Joint SEG-AAPG Meeting IMAGE 2021
• 06/24/21 UH Hosts Two-Year Pilot Program for Minority Physics Students
• 06/24/21 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Gives Longer Advance Warning of Ozone Issues
• 06/22/21 Jun Named as Fellow of the American Statistical Association
• 06/15/21 Subsurface Geophysics is Key to Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage
• 06/08/21 Half of UH Fulbright Recipients Represent NSM
• 06/07/21 TC Energy Foundation Commits $125K to Invest in Incoming UH STEM Students
• 06/03/21 Renshaw Wins Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
• 06/02/21 Farmer and Chen Honored with Butler Excellence in Teaching Award
• 05/25/21 Physics Junior Selected as 2021 Barry Goldwater Scholar
• 05/25/21 Building a Better Bulb
• 05/17/21 More than 800 NSM Degree Candidates Honored at Spring UH Commencement
• 05/12/21 Hariyani and Brgoch Receive 2021 Chemistry of Materials Lectureship and Best Paper Award
• 05/10/21 Does Driving Wear You Out? You Might Be Experiencing ‘Accelerousal’
• 05/07/21 UH Mathematics’ Quaini Chosen as Radcliffe Fellow
• 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
• 04/27/21 Two NSM Undergraduates Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
• 04/27/21 Two NSM Faculty Pair with Texas A&M Faculty to Author Book on Training STEM Educators
• 04/20/21 Online STEM Interactive Program: Returning for Summer 2021
• 04/19/21 NSF Awards Physics Ph.D. Student Graduate Research Fellowship
• 04/14/21 Nine NSM Faculty and One Graduate Student Honored with UH Faculty Excellence and Research Excellence Awards
• 04/13/21 Bluware Donates Use of Software to University of Houston Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• 04/12/21 CNRCS Researchers Find Connection Between Progesterone Receptor and Cervical Cancer
• 04/08/21 Spring 2021: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 04/08/21 Wei-Kan Chu’s 40-Year Teaching Career Honored with Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
• 04/07/21 Teaching with Technology: Geology Alums Step in to Enhance Education During Pandemic
• 03/30/21 New Mathematics Faculty Member Tracks Global Terrorism Patterns with NSF Grant
• 03/24/21 UH Facilities Using New Technology Developed by UH Physicist to Fight COVID-19
• 03/18/21 Understanding How Electrons ‘Dance’ in Topological Semimetals
• 03/15/21 Physics and Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor Named Scialog Fellow
• 03/12/21 Julia Wellner Chosen as USSSP Ocean Discovery Lecturer
• 03/11/21 UH Geologists Discover Powerful ‘River of Rocks’ Below Caribbean
• 03/08/21 Chemistry Student Awarded NSF Grant to Explore Large Crystal Growth
• 03/02/21 Chemistry Associate Professor Finds Fundamental Behavioral Difference in Methanol Thin Films
• 02/24/21 UH Geologists Search for Remains of Lost Ocean Beneath Earth’s Surface
• 02/22/21 In Memoriam: Professor Donald J. Kouri
• 02/22/21 Albert Cheng Earns Top Honors from Computer Science Community
• 02/12/21 Paul Mann Receives AAPG’s Distinguished Educator Award
• 01/29/21 Biology and Biochemistry Imaging Core Activates New Confocal Microscope
• 01/28/21 New Catalyst Moves Seawater Desalination, Hydrogen Production Closer to Commercialization
• 01/20/21 A Desire to Teach and Help: Computer Science Student Undertakes Video Project
• 01/20/21 Work of Wu and Fuston Named One of “10 Geological Discoveries that Rocked 2020”
• 01/14/21 Researching the Smallest Properties of Nuclear Particles
• 01/14/21 Destination: United States Space Force
• 01/13/21 Examining Therapeutic Targets for Kidney Disease
• 01/07/21 Cosmological Mysteries - UH Physicists are Asking Big Questions about the Universe
• 2020
• 12/21/20 University of Houston Receives Licensing Executive Society’s 2020 Deal of Distinction in CEEM Sector
• 12/18/20 Celebrating Our 2020 Grads – Virtually
• 12/17/20 Machine Learning Boosts the Search for ‘Superhard’ Materials
• 12/14/20 Explained: Political Polarization
• 12/07/20 Researchers Call for Renewed Focus on Thermoelectric Cooling
• 11/19/20 Making the Best Decision: Math Shows Diverse Thinkers Equal Better Results
• 11/17/20 New Drug Discovery Institute Launches at University of Houston
• 11/10/20 UH Researcher Uses Immunotherapy Expertise to Fight Cancer and Parkinson’s Disease
• 11/05/20 Fall 2020: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 10/22/20 Turbulent Era Sparked Leap in Human Behavior, Adaptability 320,000 Years Ago
• 10/21/20 Nearly 100 NSM Students Present at 2020 Undergraduate Research Day
• 10/20/20 Yingcai Zheng Named Robert and Margaret Sheriff Professor in Applied Geophysics
• 10/20/20 Lost and Found: UH Geologists ‘Resurrect’ Missing Tectonic Plate
• 09/29/20 Nanotech Filter Coating Offers Promise Against COVID-19
• 09/24/20 Help for Nepal: UH Volunteers Create Free Video Lessons for Children During Pandemic
• 09/23/20 Staying One Step Ahead to Stop Hackers in their Tracks
• 09/21/20 New Data Shows How Underwater Channels Facilitate Antarctic Ice Melt
• 09/10/20 Inexpensive, Non-Toxic Nanofluid Could Be a Game-Changer for Oil Recovery
• 09/09/20 UH Receives Funding from NSF to Create Center for Integrated Catalysis
• 09/03/20 Jakoah Brgoch Wins 2020 NSM Junior Faculty Award
• 08/31/20 Investigating Host Tolerance to Genes that Jump
• 08/26/20 Welch Foundation Provides Thousands in Research Grants to Chemistry Department
• 08/21/20 Using Mathematical Models to Understand Geographic Spread of COVID-19
• 08/19/20 Inventing New Tools to Peer into the Gastrointestinal Tract
• 08/18/20 Computer Science Professor Studies Pandemic’s Effect on Transit
• 08/13/20 Computer Science REU Program Adjusts to Fully Online Learning
• 08/07/20 TC Energy Summer Scholars Academy Successfully Prepares Students for Careers in STEM Programs
• 08/06/20 Geology Ph.D. Student Receives $20,000 GEM Fellowship
• 08/06/20 Recent Physics Graduate Named Marcus L. Urann Fellow by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
• 07/31/20 A New Chemical Analysis Upends Conventional Explanation for Global Cooling
• 07/31/20 Physics Professors Receive Butler Excellence in Teaching Award
• 07/24/20 Interdisciplinary Research Seeks Direct and Efficient Delivery of Macromolecules to Cells
• 07/20/20 UH Computer Science Skills Lead to Visa and Amazon Internships, Job
• 07/14/20 COVID-19 Effort: HP Donates D300e BioPrinter to Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling
• 07/14/20 Next-Gen Micro-CT Scan Can Lower Radiation, Offer Better Pictures
• 07/07/20 Researchers Create Air Filter that Can Kill the Coronavirus
• 06/30/20 Summer 2020: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 06/25/20 International Collaboration Brings Us One Step Closer to Understanding Mysteries of the Universe
• 06/18/20 Cloning Stem Cells to Find a Cure for Crohn’s Disease
• 06/11/20 Showing Promise: Fighting COVID-19
• 06/11/20 TC Energy Summer Scholars Academy Empowers Incoming UH STEM Majors
• 06/03/20 Free Online STEM Activities Available for Students Entering Grades 6-9
• 05/29/20 Two Physics Majors Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
• 05/26/20 UH Addresses Shortage of Computer Science, Technology and Physics Teachers
• 05/22/20 Back from the Bottom of the World
• 05/19/20 “Coolest Spaces on Campus:” The Keeland Building Greenroof
• 05/11/20 Seven NSM Faculty Honored with UH Faculty Excellence and Research Excellence Awards
• 05/11/20 Multitasking in the Workplace Can Lead to Negative Emotions
• 05/07/20 International Group of Physicists and Engineers Design FDA-Approved, Open-Source Ventilator
• 05/05/20 Project Will Expand Use of Metal Catalysts for Drug Discovery
• 04/29/20 Making a ‘Strange’ Discovery
• 04/22/20 Atmospheric Sciences Researchers Expand Carbon Aerosol Monitoring to Houston Area
• 04/16/20 UH Alumna’s Path to Coveted Medical Physics Ph.D. Program
• 04/15/20 COPD as a Lung Stem Cell Disease
• 04/14/20 Discovery Offers New Avenue for Next-Generation Data Storage
• 04/13/20 Ph.D. Student Makes Strides in Understanding Photostability of Molecules
• 04/09/20 Associate Chemistry Professor Finds New, Unexpected Result in 2D Material
• 04/01/20 Breakthroughs in Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity of Boron Arsenide Crystals
• 03/31/20 Improving Protection
• 03/30/20 UH Researchers Donate Protective Equipment to Health Care Workers on Front Lines
• 03/25/20 Controlled Burn Promotes Biodiversity at UH Coastal Center
• 03/17/20 Seamus Curran Honored with Silicon Valley 50 Award
• 03/11/20 Artificial Intelligence and Family Medicine: Better Together
• 03/09/20 ‘Deceptively Simple’ Process Could Boost Plastics Recycling
• 03/05/20 Researchers Find Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity in Isotopically Pure Cubic Boron Nitride
• 03/04/20 New Material Could Turn Clothing into a Health Monitor
• 02/25/20 Scholar Plot: Measuring Faculty Academic Performance
• 02/20/20 Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. Student Awarded NASA STEM Fellowship
• 02/18/20 Roland Glowinski Receives SIAM W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize
• 02/12/20 Biology Grad Students Seek Answers to Breast Cancer Tumor Growth
• 02/12/20 Two UH Chemists Are Named 2020 Sloan Research Fellows
• 02/10/20 In Memoriam: Dr. Robert W. Talbot
• 02/07/20 On the Atlantic: Students Experience Research Trip of a Lifetime
• 02/05/20 Albert Cheng Chosen as Fulbright Specialist and ACM Distinguished Speaker
• 01/27/20 Converting Qubits to Bits: Quantum to Classical Information
• 01/23/20 Physicist Chosen as Scialog Fellow
• 01/21/20 Research from UH Computer Science: Out of the Lab and into Popular Use
• 01/13/20 Geophysics Students Organize Exploration Software Bootcamp
• 01/08/20 UH Physicists Advance Knowledge in Ultracold Atoms
• 2019
• 12/13/19 NSM Students Participate in Fall Commencement
• 12/03/19 A Study of Saturn’s Largest Moon May Offer Insights for Earth
• 12/03/19 UH Physicist Named to National Academy of Inventors
• 11/21/19 Exposing Office Distractions and Effects on Worker Productivity
• 11/20/19 New Hybrid Device Can Both Capture and Store Solar Energy
• 11/20/19 Fall 2019: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 11/18/19 Geology Ph.D. Student Awarded NASA Grant
• 11/14/19 Global Climate Change Concerns for Africa’s Lake Victoria
• 11/12/19 Contraceptive Drug Shows Promise for Preventing and Regressing Cervical Cancer
• 11/11/19 New Catalyst Efficiently Produces Hydrogen from Seawater
• 11/04/19 Dupré Receives Two Major Awards
• 10/30/19 Blockchain Offers Promise for Securing Global Supply Chain
• 10/29/19 New AI Deep Learning Model Allows Earlier, More Accurate Ozone Warnings
• 10/24/19 Low Frequency Seismic Prototype to Expand Seismic Capability
• 10/23/19 Changing How Chemists Think About Textbook Chemical Concepts
• 10/22/19 Finding Communities: Physics Researchers Develop Complex Network Algorithm
• 10/15/19 GeoSociety Undergraduate Student Organization Creates Second Rock Garden
• 10/14/19 Fishes and Rivers, Oh My! Two NSM Students Intern at NOAA
• 10/11/19 Chemists Shine a Light on Well-Known Chemical Reactions
• 10/07/19 UH Hosts Social Decisions Workshop
• 10/02/19 Suppe Elected as AGU Fellow
• 10/01/19 Cloning to Fight Esophageal Cancer
• 09/17/19 CAMP2Ex: Measuring Aerosols in the Philippines
• 09/16/19 Is Copper a Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease?
• 09/05/19 The Paradox of Different House Flies with Few Genetic Differences
• 09/05/19 Using Nature to Produce a Revolutionary Optical Material
• 09/04/19 How Do Social Networks Shape Political Decision-Making?
• 09/04/19 A Critical Toolkit for the 21st Century: UH Offers Data Science Minor
• 09/03/19 Summer 2019: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 08/28/19 The Role of a Single Molecule in Obesity
• 08/28/19 NSM Professors Receive American Educational Research Association Award
• 08/26/19 Crack in Pacific Seafloor Caused Volcanic Chain to Go Dormant
• 08/26/19 TIP Grant Funds Development of Introductory Computer Programming Courses
• 08/20/19 Inside Research: Welch-UH Center Director Sets Sights on ‘Broader Scope’ of Polymer Research
• 08/15/19 Porous Molecular Crystals: Applications in Storage, Recycling and Sensing
• 08/08/19 Houston 2040: Health and Economic Impact of Reducing Vehicle Emissions
• 08/06/19 Math Graduate Students Receive AWM Student Chapter Award
• 07/24/19 NSM Undergrads Intern at Smithsonian Institute
• 07/18/19 New Low-Cost Thermoelectric Material Works at Room Temperature
• 07/17/19 Almus Wins 2019 Butler Teaching Award
• 07/08/19 Research Yields New Clues to the Origin of Tamu Massif
• 07/05/19 Teets Receives Two NSM Faculty Awards
• 06/26/19 Geology Alumna Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
• 06/26/19 UH Researcher Reports the Way Sickle Cells Form May be Key to Stopping Them
• 06/24/19 Equinor Summer STEM Camps Offer Educational Fun
• 06/21/19 Researchers Report New Understanding of Thermoelectric Materials
• 06/18/19 Pushing the Bounds of Memory
• 06/10/19 UH Geoscience Team Wins International Petroleum Exploration Competition
• 05/28/19 Enabling Simulations: Hexahedral Mesh Generation
• 05/28/19 Women in Physics: UH One of 21 U.S. Physics Programs Awarding 30 Percent or More of Its PhDs to Women
• 05/20/19 Environmental Sciences Major, True Furrh, Receives Udall Scholarship
• 05/15/19 Visualizing Different Protein Forms in Cells
• 05/15/19 Spring 2019: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 05/13/19 More than 500 NSM Degree Candidates Participate in Spring UH Commencement
• 05/06/19 Computer Science Alumnus Receives Fulbright Scholarship
• 05/06/19 Out on the Texas Plains: Understanding Grassland Ecology
• 05/01/19 González Receives 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award
• 04/30/19 Two Physics Undergrads Receive Goldwater Scholarships
• 04/25/19 Geology Graduate Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• 04/23/19 Computer Science Graduate Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• 04/23/19 NSM Announces 2019 da Vinci Society Inductees
• 04/18/19 Eighteen NSM Faculty and One Graduate Student Honored at UH Faculty Excellence Awards Dinner
• 04/16/19 Grad Student Selected as MilliporeSigma Life Science Award Finalist
• 04/09/19 Competing in a Data-Driven World
• 04/08/19 In Memoriam: George Reiter
• 04/02/19 Physics Student Wins Best Graduate Student Presentation Award
• 03/26/19 Computer Science Graduate Student Named Snap Research Fellow
• 03/13/19 Scholar Enrichment Program: Peer-Led Student Success
• 03/12/19 Unraveling the Mystery of Life: House Fly Edition
• 03/11/19 NSF CAREER Awards: A Track Record of Success in the Chemistry Department
• 03/11/19 On the Ice
• 03/06/19 UH Geologist Receives CAREER Award to Tackle Reconstruction of Panthalassa-Pacific Plates
• 02/22/19 Study Demonstrates Effect of Minimal Antibiotic Exposure in Microgravity Conditions
• 02/20/19 UH Chemist Earns CAREER Award for Work in Luminescence
• 02/20/19 Science and Engineering Fair of Houston Leverages Learning Opportunities for All
• 02/20/19 Mangroves: A Coastal Savior?
• 02/19/19 Above-Below Ground: Plant-Herbivore Interactions
• 02/11/19 Stress-free Training May Enhance Surgical Skill
• 02/11/19 Peer Writing Group: Student-Led Success
• 01/30/19 Physics Department Receives APS Undergraduate Education Award
• 01/28/19 NSF Small Business Grant Funds Educational Video Company
• 01/25/19 UH Chemists Report New Class of Polyethylene Catalyst
• 01/25/19 New Method Yields Higher Transition Temperature in Superconducting Materials
• 01/25/19 Geophysics Professor and Graduate Students Return from Research Cruise
• 01/23/19 UH Scientists Reconstruct Ancient Lost Plates Under Andes Mountains
• 01/23/19 Ocean Drilling Project Seeks Clues to Future Sea Level Rise
• 01/17/19 New Thermoelectric Material Delivers Record Performance
• 01/16/19 Predicting the Unpredictable: Chaotic Dynamical Systems
• 01/10/19 Computer Science Grad Student Wins Award at Major International Conference
• 01/08/19 Unlocking the Mystery of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
• 01/03/19 Applications for Mathematics: Image Analysis
• 2018
• 12/21/18 Daugulis and Ren Recognized for Influential Work
• 12/13/18 Nearly 250 NSM Candidates Participate in Fall Commencement
• 12/13/18 UH Chemist Focuses on Materials for LED Lighting
• 12/12/18 Conference Focuses on Texas Women in Mathematics
• 12/10/18 Biology Student Awarded Tschinkel Ant Natural History Research Grant
• 12/04/18 Fall 2018: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 11/27/18 Three University of Houston Chemists Elected to AAAS
• 11/20/18 Ru Elected as Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
• 11/16/18 The Perfect Movie: Recommendations to Suit the Mood
• 11/14/18 UH Receives $1.7 Million to Educate More Computer Science Teachers
• 11/13/18 UH Physicist Zhifeng Ren Receives Humboldt Prize
• 11/05/18 Phishing Attempts After Harvey: A UH Survey
• 11/01/18 UH Grad Student Earns NASA Fellowship for Climate Modeling
• 10/30/18 Student Research: The Mechanism of Tolerance to Transposable Elements
• 10/29/18 Understanding the Sun: The Borexino Collaboration
• 10/22/18 New Algorithm Can More Quickly Predict LED Materials
• 10/16/18 Student Research: Searching for Signs of Life in the Upper Atmosphere
• 10/11/18 UH Physicists Play Role in International Neutrino Experiment Milestone
• 10/09/18 Finding Therapeutic Targets to Prevent Atherosclerosis
• 10/08/18 NASA Grant Funds Research on Saturn’s Strong Winds
• 10/03/18 Training the Next Generation of Environmental Experts
• 10/02/18 Determining Cell Fate and the Onset of Crohn’s Disease
• 09/24/18 Away They Go: Science Outreach on the Big Island
• 09/21/18 Chiral Oxygen Heterocycles: New Avenues for Drug Synthesis
• 09/14/18 Jupiter’s Energy: A New Understanding of the Giant Planet
• 09/12/18 Geology Graduate Student Awarded Mineralogical Society of America Grant
• 09/07/18 Biochemistry Graduate Student Awarded Predoctoral Training Fellowship
• 09/05/18 How Will Climate Change Affect Plants, Soil Microbes?
• 09/05/18 Texas Center for Superconductivity Announces New Leadership
• 09/04/18 Miljanic Awarded Humboldt Foundation Fellowship
• 08/30/18 Two NSM Undergraduates Receive Hollings Environmental Science Scholarships
• 08/29/18 Center for Superconductivity’s Butler Wins IEEE Swerdlow Award
• 08/28/18 Brgoch Receives ACS-GHS Younger Chemist Award
• 08/22/18 Summer 2018: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 08/15/18 How Gene Hunting Changed the Culture of Science
• 08/15/18 Computer Science Student Awarded Two Conference Scholarships
• 08/08/18 Adlakha, Physics Ph.D. Student, Earns AAUW Fellowship
• 08/01/18 STEM Academy Teaches Young Students How to Develop Inventions
• 07/30/18 Experimental and Theoretical: Pushing Boundaries in Solid-State Chemistry
• 07/30/18 UH Researchers Report New Understanding of Deep Earthquakes
• 07/26/18 Sheikh Receives Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Grant
• 07/26/18 NSF Grant Funds Dauwalder’s Blood-Brain Barrier Research
• 07/23/18 How the West Was Built: A Geologic History of the Rocky Mountains
• 07/20/18 Mapping Changes in the Galveston Bay Channel After Harvey
• 07/17/18 Biology Ph.D. Student Selected as Walter Fitch Award Finalist
• 07/13/18 The Strong Nuclear Force: Understanding Quark-Gluon Plasma
• 07/05/18 Researchers Upend Conventional Wisdom on Thermal Conductivity
• 06/29/18 UH Researchers Report Novel Hybrid Catalyst to Split Water
• 06/27/18 Why Bacteria Survive in Space – UH Biologists Discover Clues
• 06/20/18 Evans Serving as President of UTeach STEM Educators Association
• 06/19/18 UH Nanotech Startup Enters the ‘Green’ Energy Market
• 06/18/18 Bittner Receives Leverhulme Award
• 06/12/18 Zufall Wins 2018 Butler Teaching Award
• 06/07/18 Training a Future Generation of Math and Science Teachers
• 06/04/18 Loi Do Awarded 2018 NSM Junior Faculty Award
• 06/01/18 CS Alum Receives Tenure-Track Position
• 05/30/18 Mathematics’ Suncica Canic Wins Farfel Award
• 05/25/18 CHAMP Recognized With Two National Awards
• 05/23/18 Spring 2018: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 05/21/18 Geology Graduate Student Selected For Antarctica Research Expedition
• 05/17/18 Moving Supply Chain Industry Forward with Blockchain Technology
• 05/15/18 Protein Dynamics: How Crowding Affects Functionality
• 05/11/18 Nearly 500 NSM Degree Candidates Participate in Spring UH Commencement
• 05/08/18 UH Students Launch Student-Run Earth Sciences Journal
• 05/07/18 The Early Universe: Understanding Quark-Gluon Plasma
• 05/02/18 Chemistry Graduate Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• 04/30/18 What Can Past Glacier Behavior Tell Us About Future Sea Level Rise?
• 04/26/18 Seven NSM Faculty and One Graduate Student Honored at UH Faculty Excellence Awards Dinner
• 04/26/18 UH Team Selected as Inaugural PhysTEC Fellows
• 04/24/18 UH Researchers Test New Method to Measure Effect of Volcanic Eruptions
• 04/19/18 Image-Guided Robot-Assisted Surgeries
• 04/17/18 Organic Thin Films: Teflon-like Properties
• 04/16/18 CPH Lecture Series: The Long-Term Prospects of Science
• 04/12/18 A Focus on Disease: The Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling
• 04/09/18 Professional Master’s Program: Top-Tier Education for Geoscientists
• 04/06/18 Berry and Paau Honored as Distinguished Alumni
• 04/03/18 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Program Ranking on the Rise
• 04/02/18 Harth Receives Gutenberg Chair Award
• 03/28/18 In Memoriam: Kevin C. A. Burke, Ph.D., UH Professor of Geology and Tectonics (1929-2018)
• 03/28/18 Festschrift in Honor of Physics’ Wei-Kan Chu
• 03/22/18 STEM Summer Camps Offer Education and Fun
• 03/21/18 Nanomaterials Hold Promise for Producing Hydrogen from Water
• 03/15/18 UH Scientists Investigating Mysterious Dark Matter
• 03/15/18 Special Lecture Event: The Jazz of Physics on April 19
• 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
• 03/05/18 Grant Funds Ongoing Houston-Area Ozone Monitoring
• 03/02/18 Recycling Anesthetics: Applications for Porous Molecular Crystals
• 03/01/18 Estrogen Suspected, Examined as Cause of Cervical Cancer
• 02/27/18 NSF Grant Funds LEAD Houston Program for Local STEM Teachers
• 02/23/18 UH Chemist Judy Wu Receives NSF CAREER Award for Hydrogen Bond Research
• 02/20/18 Researcher Focuses on Environmentally Friendly Plastics
• 02/14/18 NASA Grant Funds Martian Volcano Research
• 02/09/18 Luminescent Materials: Learning to Glow
• 02/07/18 UH to Host National Meeting on Hispanics in STEM
• 01/31/18 Uncovering Secrets of the Ocean Floor
• 01/30/18 Sisson Elected Fellow of Mineralogical Society of America
• 01/30/18 PHD Comics Lecture: We Have No Idea
• 01/10/18 Cryptocurrency as Money of the Future
• 01/03/18 Samsung Funds Exploratory Research
• 2017
• 12/20/17 Calculating Impact of Wildfires on Human Health
• 12/14/17 Nearly 250 NSM Candidates Participate in Fall Convocation
• 12/06/17 Facial Recognition Systems
• 12/06/17 UH Cancer Researcher Focused on Tumor Development
• 12/01/17 Weglein Selected as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Seismic Exploration
• 11/30/17 Knowledge Discovery: Making Sense of Big Data
• 11/17/17 UH Earth Science Ranked in Global Top 50
• 11/16/17 Fall 2017: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 11/14/17 NSF Grant Funds STEM Retention Conference for Hispanic Serving Institutions
• 11/09/17 Geology Graduate Student Attends Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology
• 11/06/17 $450K NSF Grant Funds Fundamental Research in Quantum Physics
• 10/31/17 After Harvey: Scientists Study Changes in Galveston Bay
• 10/25/17 Decision-Making in an Uncertain World
• 10/25/17 UH Chemist to Oversee New Journal for Nanomaterials
• 10/23/17 UH Researchers Join National Effort to Study Recent Storms
• 10/17/17 Physics Graduate Student Spends Month at CERN
• 10/12/17 Teets Awarded ACS-GHS Younger Chemist Award
• 10/10/17 Onofrei Receives $455K Grant from Army Research Office
• 10/09/17 Spotting the Fake Reviews: Deceptive Opinion Spam
• 10/06/17 Prairie Ecology: The Role of Micronutrients
• 10/05/17 CPH Lecture Series: Opening a New Window onto the Cosmos
• 09/26/17 NSM Holds Post-Harvey School Supply Drive
• 09/22/17 Stewart Elected SEG President
• 09/20/17 Lubchenko Wins ACS-GHS Hightower Award
• 09/18/17 New Approach Boosts Performance in Thermoelectric Materials
• 09/15/17 NSM Students Aid in Harvey Recovery Efforts
• 09/08/17 Post-Harvey, NSM Offers Weeklong Science Camp
• 09/05/17 NSF CAREER Award Advances Work in Fundamental Physics
• 08/17/17 UH Hosts TX-LA Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
• 08/17/17 Daugulis Awarded 4-Year $1.2 Million NIH Grant
• 08/15/17 UH Physics and Astronomy Society to Host Solar Eclipse Viewing
• 08/15/17 Signs of Distracted Driving – Pounding Heart, Sweaty Nose
• 08/07/17 Breaking Ground on a New Era of Particle Physics
• 08/01/17 Kadish Wins Inaugural SCF French-American Prize
• 08/01/17 Decoding a Treasure Trove of Data from the Brain
• 07/31/17 UH Students Conduct Research on Galápagos Island
• 07/27/17 Summer 2017: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 07/21/17 Smart Contracts: Building a Trusted System in an Untrusted World
• 07/20/17 UH Researcher Working to Make Security Cameras 'Smarter'
• 07/14/17 New Limits to Functional Portion of Human Genome Reported
• 07/14/17 In Memoriam: Peter Jurtshuk
• 07/11/17 Gilbertson Selected As ACS Fellow
• 06/29/17 UH Environmental Research Gets a Boost with New Designation
• 06/27/17 In Memoriam: Philip Snider
• 06/19/17 Calcium Signaling in Learning and Memory
• 06/12/17 UH Geochemist Searches for Answers on the Sea Floor
• 06/08/17 Honors Biomedical Sciences Major Selected as Student Regent
• 06/07/17 Bacterial Adaptations to Extended Time in Microgravity
• 06/01/17 Computer Science Undergraduate and Friends Qualify for NASA Robotics Finals
• 06/01/17 UH-Based Nanotech Business Expands Nationally
• 05/22/17 Climenhaga Receives 2017 NSM Junior Faculty Research Award
• 05/16/17 Under Cyber Attack: UH Researchers Look at How to Catch a 'Phisher'
• 05/15/17 Khan and Wayne Honored with NSM's Butler Teaching Award
• 05/15/17 UH Researchers Report New, More Efficient Catalyst for Water Splitting
• 05/13/17 More than 470 NSM Degree Candidates Participate in Spring Convocation
• 05/09/17 Math Grad Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• 04/28/17 Mathematics Graduate Student Earns DOE Research Award
• 04/27/17 Geoscience Student Team Wins Imperial Barrel Award World Championship
• 04/25/17 A Tiny Droplet of the Early Universe?
• 04/19/17 Nineteen NSM Faculty Honored at UH Faculty Excellence Awards Dinner
• 04/18/17 Das' NSF CAREER Award Targets Advanced Microscopy Techniques
• 04/14/17 NSM Honors 12 Distinguished Alumni and Legacy Award Winner
• 04/10/17 EAS Researcher Returns from Meteorite Expedition to Antarctica
• 04/05/17 In Memoriam: Kwong Lau
• 03/31/17 Spring 2017: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 03/29/17 Algorithm Offers Predictive Power for Electron Transfer Theory
• 03/15/17 UH Physicist Launches a New Journal for Materials Science
• 03/10/17 Student Project Selected for NASA High-Altitude Flight
• 03/01/17 Quantifying Eye Contact During Conversations
• 02/17/17 Switched On: Modeling Genetic Circuits for Therapeutic Purposes
• 02/15/17 Jerry Yang: NSF CAREER Award Recipient
• 02/01/17 The Martian (Rock): Evidence of Two Billion Years of Volcanic Activity
• 01/25/17 Bittner Named American Physical Society Fellow
• 01/24/17 Researchers Report New Understanding of Global Warming
• 2016
• 12/16/16 The Air We Breathe: Forecasting Air Quality
• 12/16/16 More than 250 NSM Candidates Participate in Fall Convocation
• 12/12/16 NSF Grant Funds Scholarships for NSM Students
• 11/21/16 Samples From Beyond Our World: Researcher Travels to Antarctica for Meteorite Expedition
• 11/14/16 Researchers Report New Thermoelectric Material with High Power Factor
• 10/31/16 Physicists Induce Superconductivity in Non-Superconducting Materials
• 10/26/16 Learning by Doing: Inquiry-Based Physics Course for Student Success
• 10/25/16 College Mourns Passing of John Bear, NSM Dean 1992-2010
• 10/24/16 UH's Arthur Weglein Receives SEG's Highest Honor – Maurice Ewing Medal
• 10/21/16 Forecasting the Spread of Diseases: Providing Speed
• 10/13/16 UH Researcher Contributes to Popular Software Package Open MPI 2.0.0
• 10/13/16 Fall 2016: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 10/12/16 UH Moment: Sand Dune Restoration
• 10/12/16 UH Moment Interview: Heart Regeneration
• 10/04/16 Suppe, National Academy of Sciences Member, Joins the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department
• 10/03/16 Fuel for the Future: Using Sunlight to Split Water
• 09/30/16 Researchers Report Advance in Low-Cost Clean Energy Generation
• 09/27/16 Mini Das Receives $1 Million Breakthrough Award from Department of Defense
• 09/27/16 Twenty-one NSM Undergraduate Students Participate in SURF Program
• 09/22/16 UH Startup Earns Commercialization Grant for New Technology
• 09/21/16 Restoring Sand Dunes, One Microbe at a Time
• 09/19/16 Researchers Discover More Efficient Way to Split Water, Produce Hydrogen
• 09/14/16 Students Return from Landslide Fieldwork in China
• 09/06/16 Frigo Awarded $792K Grant to Support Prostate Cancer Research
• 08/23/16 New Surgical Option for Breast Cancer Comes to US
• 08/10/16 UH Researchers are Pioneering Tools for Heart Regeneration
• 07/22/16 teachHOUSTON Awarded $1.45 Million for STEM Teacher Preparation
• 07/19/16 UH Physicist Joins Project to Develop New High Thermal Conducting Material
• 07/18/16 Three Renowned Energy Researchers Join University of Houston
• 07/12/16 Sinking Ground: Khan, Geology Professor, Studies Subsidence in Houston
• 07/07/16 George and Frankino Honored With NSM’s Butler Teaching Award
• 07/06/16 Researchers Report Record Performance for Bismuth-based Zintl Material
• 06/30/16 Van Nieuwenhuise Featured on 22 Texas Public Radio Stations
• 06/28/16 Summer 2016: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 06/27/16 UH Researchers Discover a New Method to Boost Oil Recovery
• 06/27/16 NSF Grant Funds Research on Evolution of Social Cooperation
• 06/22/16 UH Moment: Commercialized Research
• 06/06/16 Chen Receives 2016 NSM Junior Faculty Research Award
• 06/01/16 Biology's Tony Frankino Awarded $435,000 NSF Grant to Study Evolution of Body Proportions
• 05/27/16 UH Physicist Honored for Groundbreaking Approach to Seismology
• 05/23/16 Shuhab Khan featured on 22 Texas Public Radio Stations
• 05/23/16 Biology's George E. Fox Awarded $387K Grant to Study Origins of Life
• 05/18/16 Physics Alumna Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
• 05/16/16 Kelleher, Biology Faculty, Studies the Evolution of Genomic Stability
• 05/12/16 UH Nanotech Spinoff Reaches Commercial Milestone
• 05/12/16 A Sixth Sense Protects Drivers Except When Texting
• 05/12/16 More than 400 NSM Candidates Participate in Spring Convocation
• 05/11/16 Earth and Atmospherics Sciences' Matthew Erickson Headed to South Korea for Air Quality Study
• 05/06/16 Math Research Focuses on Reducing X-Ray Exposure in Patients
• 05/02/16 Snider to Retire after 57 Years as University Faculty
• 05/02/16 Six NSM Faculty Honored at UH Faculty Excellence Awards Dinner
• 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
• 04/18/16 UH Physicists Discover Flaws in Superconductor Theory
• 03/23/16 NATO Taps UH Professor to Keep Big Data Secure on the Cloud
• 03/22/16 Solorio, Computer Science Professor, Seeks to Solve Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution
• 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
• 03/11/16 Zac Brown Visits UH Spin-Out Company Integricote
• 03/07/16 UH Moment: Recommended Reading
• 03/04/16 Vaughn Climenhaga: NSF CAREER Award Recipient
• 03/01/16 Dryer Awarded 4-Year, $1.3 Million NIH Grant
• 02/26/16 Guoning Chen: NSF CAREER Award Recipient
• 02/16/16 Research Offers New Evidence about the Gulf of Mexico's Past
• 02/05/16 Winter 2016: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 02/02/16 A Beautiful Mind: Math Faculty Developing Methods of Analyzing Images of Neurons
• 01/29/16 Uncovering the Climate of Jupiter, Saturn and Its Largest Moon
• 01/15/16 Continuing the Search for Better Energy Materials
• 01/06/16 Wellner Selected as a 2016 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
• 2015
• 12/17/15 More than 250 NSM Candidates Participate in Fall Convocation
• 12/16/15 Whitehead Receives Inaugural NSM Junior Faculty Research Award
• 12/11/15 UH Research Group Discovers Alternative Mechanism for Oncogene Activation
• 12/10/15 UH Moment: Frank McKeon
• 12/10/15 Do Awarded American Chemical Society Houston-Section Younger Chemist Award
• 12/04/15 UH Researchers Return from World's Largest Volcano with New Data
• 12/02/15 NSM Graduate Students Honored at UH's Graduate Research Day
• 11/19/15 Dryer, Biology Professor, Seeks to Identify Therapies for Kidney Disease
• 11/16/15 Hackers Gonna Hack: UH Gets $2.6M to Protect Next-Gen 911 Centers
• 11/09/15 UH Researchers Design Material with Potential Use in Solid-State Lasers
• 11/09/15 Zheng Wins Karcher Award
• 11/06/15 Online Graduate Course on Sea Level Rise Offered at 20 Universities
• 11/02/15 Fifty NSM Students Present Work at UH's Undergraduate Research Day
• 10/29/15 Six NSM Graduate Students Selected for Future Faculty Fellowship
• 10/22/15 Geosociety Student Organization Renovates John C. Butler Memorial Planter
• 10/16/15 Fall 2015: Breakthrough Newsletter
• 10/16/15 Ph.D. Student Receives HAMBP Fellowship to Study Calcium Signaling in Neurons
• 10/13/15 UH to Lead National Center for Borders, Trade and Immigration
• 09/29/15 New Prostate Cancer Treatments Could Target Metabolism
• 09/24/15 National Academy Member Maurice Brookhart Joins UH Chemistry
• 09/22/15 Bon Voyage: Professor and Students Set Sail to World's Largest Single Volcano
• 09/22/15 UH Researchers Create Fatigue-free, Stretchable Conductor
• 09/22/15 NSF Grant Funds Purchase of New High-Performance Computer
• 09/14/15 Best Precision Yet for Neutrino Measurements at Daya Bay
• 09/03/15 Ph.D. Student Receives NASA Fellowship to Study Early Solar System Materials
• 08/24/15 Promising Target for New Drugs Found in Pancreatic Cancer Cells
• 08/04/15 Summer Institute Benefits High School Physics Teachers
• 07/29/15 Evans and Tomforde Honored with NSM's Butler Teaching Award
• 07/14/15 Josić Awarded Simons Fellowship in Mathematics
• 07/08/15 Amy Sater Named Chair of Biology and Biochemistry
• 07/07/15 Barnett Shale Research Raises New Concerns about Methane Emissions
• 06/26/15 Summer 2015 Breakthrough Newsletter
• 06/26/15 UH Computer Science Professor Sees Responsibilities and Possibilities in Nepal
• 06/23/15 New Formula Expected to Spur Advances in Clean Energy Generation
• 06/23/15 UH Spinoff Recognized for Improving Breast Cancer Diagnostics
• 06/11/15 Professional Geosciences Master's Program Reaches Milestone
• 06/08/15 UH Researchers Search for New, More Efficient Materials
• 06/04/15 Cheating Amoebas Reveal Key to Successful Societies
• 06/03/15 Bassler and Su Named American Physical Society Fellows
• 06/03/15 UH Receives $1.2 Million for STEM Scholarships
• 05/28/15 Eight NSM Faculty Honored at UH Faculty Excellence Awards Luncheon
• 05/22/15 UH Named Center of Excellence for Work on Cyber Defense
• 05/18/15 UH Researchers: Climate Change Helped to Reduce Ozone Levels
• 05/14/15 NSM Celebrates Three 4.0 Summa Cum Laude Graduates
• 05/14/15 Nearly 600 Candidates Participate in May Convocation Ceremony
• 05/14/15 UH's Youngest and Oldest Graduates - NSM's Harmouche and Gantela
• 04/23/15 Geology Major Selected to Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women of 2015
• 04/17/15 UH Students Earn Spot as Finalists in National Microsoft Contest
• 04/08/15 St. Hilaire Participates in Undergraduate Research Day at the Texas Capitol
• 03/19/15 Wells Appointed Dean of College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• 03/12/15 Preethi Gunaratne Part of SXSW Personalized Medicine Panel March 17
• 03/05/15 Top 10 Physics Breakthrough: Detection of Neutrinos from Reaction that Powers Sun
• 03/04/15 UH Researchers Discover New Material to Produce Clean Energy
• 03/04/15 UH Researchers Find Link Between Flame Retardants and Obesity
• 02/04/15 UH Gets Homeland Security Funding to Fight Bioterror
• 01/26/15 New Supercomputer Allows for Massive Data Analysis in Less Time
• 01/22/15 Students Unveil Mars Rover Models at UH
• 2014
• 12/18/14 More than 570 NSM Candidates Participate in December Commencement
• 12/16/14 Two UH Scientists Named to National Academy of Inventors
• 12/08/14 NSM Graduate Students Excel in UH's First Graduate Research Day
• 11/24/14 Two University of Houston Scientists Elected as AAAS Fellows
• 11/21/14 In Memoriam: Robert E. Sheriff, 1922-2014
• 11/12/14 Radiation Monitors Tested on Space Station Pave Way for Future Missions
• 11/11/14 UH Receives $1.5M Grant to Prepare Future Cybersecurity Workers
• 10/23/14 Clinical Trials of Anti-Cancer Drug PT-112 Begin in U.S.
• 10/22/14 Yuliya Gorb: NSF CAREER Award Recipient
• 10/21/14 UH Chemists Develop Porous Molecules that Bind Greenhouse Gases
• 10/20/14 Halasyamani Wins Roy-Somiya Award
• 10/16/14 UH to Receive IEEE Milestone Award on Nov. 17
• 10/14/14 UH Physicist Shuo Chen Awarded Welch Professorship
• 10/13/14 Researchers Say Academia Can Learn from Hollywood
• 10/06/14 A Night at the Museum: Science Comes Alive at NSM Event
• 09/16/14 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Celebrates 10 Years
• 09/02/14 Daugulis Named Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry
• 08/29/14 Chemist Jakoah Brgoch Works to Develop Energy-Efficient Materials
• 08/26/14 Physics' Varghese and Paulose on 2014 Highly Cited Researchers List
• 08/21/14 UH Receives $3.3 Million Grant to Promote Women in STEM Fields
• 08/12/14 Research May Lead to Reliable Alternative to Open-Heart Surgery
• 08/11/14 Fox Named Fellow in International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life
• 08/09/14 Biology's Comprehensive Student Success Program Recognized for Excellence
• 08/08/14 Chu, Selvamanickam Honored at Superconductivity Conference
• 08/04/14 Turning Cancer to Fat, Drunk Fruit Flies Among Student Projects
• 07/31/14 Daugulis Named 2014 ACS Cope Scholar
• 07/17/14 UH Researchers Create New Method to Draw Molecules from Live Cells
• 07/08/14 Chemistry Grad Tho Tran Receives Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
• 06/13/14 UH Business Plan Team Wins Big at National Contest
• 06/06/14 How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
• 05/29/14 Jeremy May: NSF CAREER Award Recipient
• 05/29/14 $1.5 Million Grant Will Help UH Re-Think 'Gateway' Math, Science Classes
• 05/19/14 Geology Student, Warriors of the Wild Founder Named Udall Scholar
• 05/15/14 Program Brings Students from Developing Nations to UH for Physics Ph.D.
• 05/15/14 UH Physicists Look for Answers to Questions about the Universe
• 05/09/14 More Than 600 Candidates Participate in May Commencement
• 05/08/14 UH Game Design Team Selected for Microsoft Imagine Cup World Semifinals
• 05/07/14 Fifteen NSM Faculty Honored at UH Faculty Excellence Luncheon
• 05/07/14 Discovery Creates a Better Chance for Clean Energy Research
• 04/28/14 Khanh Nguyen Awarded Goldwater Scholarship
• 04/25/14 Professor Kevin Burke Receives 2014 Arthur Holmes Medal
• 03/19/14 Comprehensive Student Success Program in Biology
• 03/18/14 3D Printers Reshape University Teaching and Research
• 03/12/14 Math Program Engages Third Ward and East End High School Students
• 03/06/14 Whitehead Named APS Woman Physicist of the Month for March
• 03/05/14 New Therapies Targeting Cancer, Alzheimer’s Goal of UH Physicist
• 03/03/14 Targeting Metabolism to Develop New Prostate Cancer Treatments
• 02/24/14 Debate Considers Subsidies for Renewable Energy
• 02/19/14 In Memoriam - Professor James R. Benbrook
• 02/17/14 Math Modeling Integral to Synthetic Biology Research
• 02/03/14 Symposium Tackles the Challenges Raised by Climate Change
• 01/29/14 New Theory May Lead to More Efficient Solar Cells
• 01/28/14 UH Researchers Create New Flexible, Transparent Conductor
• 01/02/14 Cheung Named 2013 American Physical Society Fellow
• 2013
• 12/20/13 Joan and Herman Suit Receive President's Medallion at December Commencement
• 12/20/13 More than 550 NSM Candidates Participate in December Commencement
• 12/10/13 Earth's Largest Single Volcano Ranks 11th in Discover Magazine's Top 100 List for 2013
• 12/10/13 Four UH Researchers Named to National Academy of Inventors
• 12/10/13 UH Physicist Honored as Rising Star in Texas Research
• 12/03/13 Expedition Yields Unexpected Clues to Ocean Mysteries
• 11/27/13 Discoveries in How Memories Form Could Help Treat Dementia
• 11/14/13 College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics Opens New Labs
• 11/14/13 Company Co-Founded by UH Researcher Wins Nanomedicine Award
• 11/13/13 UH Researchers Working to Slow Down Memory Loss in Alzheimer's
• 10/30/13 Timothy Cooper: NSF CAREER Award Recipient
• 10/30/13 UH Debate Considers Whether Natural Gas Exports will be Good for The U.S.
• 10/16/13 New Diagnostics, Treatments for Breast Cancer Investigated at UH
• 10/10/13 C-Voltaics Wins Goradia Innovation Prize
• 09/30/13 College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and UH Energy Host Energy Symposium Series
• 09/19/13 Center of Excellence in Polymer Chemistry will Focus on Polymeric Materials
• 09/18/13 Month-Long Study Targets Improved Air Quality Forecasting
• 09/05/13 Research Creates New Opportunities from Waste Heat
• 09/05/13 Scientists Confirm Existence of Largest Single Volcano on Earth
• 09/04/13 Yang Awarded Welch Professorship by TcSUH
• 09/03/13 University of Houston Launches First Nanotech Company
• 08/30/13 UH Technology Licensed to C-Voltaics wins Special Edition COMS Young Technology Award
• 08/26/13 Khan Receives Grant to Study Pakistan's Chaman Fault
• 08/26/13 Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UH Ranked within Top 100 Programs in World
• 08/20/13 Fox Lab Publishes on Bacillus pumilus and Extreme Radiation Resistance
• 08/12/13 NSF Innovation Corps Workshop - Sept. 12 and 13
• 08/01/13 New UH Stem Center for Professional Learning Takes Aim at State, National Crisis
• 07/29/13 Singing Fruit Flies, Alzheimer's Diagnostics Among Student Projects
• 06/28/13 Stewart and Bott Selected for NSM's Excellence in Teaching Awards
• 06/05/13 teachHOUSTON Program Receives Million Dollar Endowment
• 06/04/13 UH Students Recognized for Best Student Poster Presentations at AAPG
• 05/24/13 Game Design Teams Showcase Creativity and Skill at National Microsoft Finals
• 05/23/13 UH Bestows McElhinney Award To NSM's Cotright
• 05/13/13 Nearly 550 Candidates Participate in May Commencement
• 05/13/13 Aumann Led the UH Coastal Center for Many Years
• 05/07/13 NSM Provides Students with Fuel for Finals
• 05/02/13 Strides in Math Education, Community Outreach Add up to Piper Honor
• 04/26/13 Lindsey Brier Named 2013-14 Goldwater Scholar
• 04/25/13 NSM Faculty Honored at UH Evening of Faculty Excellence
• 04/17/13 'OzoneMap' App Delivering Real-Time Air Quality Reports
• 04/15/13 NSM Undergraduates Showcase Research
• 04/08/13 Air Force Awards Young Investigator Program Grant to UH Mathematics Professor
• 03/20/13 Dryer Elected Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology
• 03/15/13 UH Chemist, Ognjen Miljanic, Selected as a Cottrell Scholar
• 03/14/13 Two New Programs Put UH Undergraduates on Fast Track to Medical School
• 03/05/13 UH Geoscientist Recognized by AAPG for Spreading Information after 2010 Oil Spill
• 03/05/13 Fossil CSI: Prehistoric Clues to Oil, Environment Revealed
• 02/18/13 University of Houston Chemist Devises Effective Methods for Creating Useful Compounds
• 02/15/13 UTMB, UH Team Up to Study Brain Chemistry
• 02/13/13 NSF Grant Supports Measurement of 'Heartbeat' of the Ground Underlying Houston
• 01/31/13 Paul Chu Named Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
• 01/14/13 Uncovering Bacterial Survival Strategy
• 01/10/13 Ziburkus Receives Two-Year Grant from Alzheimer's Association
• 2012
• 12/21/12 More than 500 Candidates Participate in December Commencement
• 12/10/12 UH Biology Ph.D. Student Receives NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
• 12/03/12 NSF Gives UH $985K Grant to Boost Science Education in Houston
• 12/03/12 Total Donates High-Speed Computer Cluster to University of Houston
• 11/12/12 Glowinski Honored in Inaugural Class of American Mathematical Society Fellows
• 10/24/12 Jonathan Snow to Lead International Drilling Expedition
• 10/18/12 Daugulis' New Way to Make 2-Arylphenols Published in Chemical Science
• 10/11/12 UH and Agilent Technologies Announce Project to Advance Petroleum Research
• 10/11/12 First Friends of NSM Graduate Fellows Selected
• 09/06/12 DarkSide 50 Project Takes Dark-Matter Detection to New Levels
• 08/22/12 Researchers Succeed in Reprogramming Skin Cells as Heart Cells
• 08/21/12 NSM Students Spend Summer Making a Difference with Hands-On Research
• 08/16/12 Copeland and Forrest Honored with NSM Teaching Awards
• 08/13/12 UH Physics Researcher Develops Nanoparticle Coating for Solar Panels
• 08/02/12 Microscope provides an improved technique for chemical imaging of surfaces.
• 07/17/12 Achieving Superconductivity Near Room Temperature Goal of Collaborative Effort
• 07/11/12 Kadish Receives Hans Fischer Career Award in Porphyrin Chemistry
• 06/26/12 NIH, DOD Grants to Fund Prostate Cancer, Diabetes Research at UH
• 05/31/12 Early-Career Grant Supports Research on Ribosomes
• 05/31/12 May's Research Highlighted in Nature Chemistry
• 05/24/12 UH Physicist One of 68 Promising Researchers Selected in Nation
• 05/23/12 Computer Science Rankings on the Rise
• 05/11/12 More than 500 Candidates Participate in May Commencement
• 05/03/12 Prestigious Piper Professor Title Bestowed Upon Chemistry Department's Simon Bott
• 05/01/12 NSM Faculty Honored with 13 Awards at UH Evening of Faculty Excellence
• 04/30/12 Two UH Teams Place in Top Four of U.S. Imagine Cup Finals
• 04/27/12 CNRCS Confers Inaugural Ph.D.
• 04/19/12 NSM Seniors Markovich and Williams Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
• 04/05/12 UH Physics, Mathematics Student Mason Biamonte Named 2012 Goldwater Scholar
• 03/21/12 'Experiencing Ethics' Course Blends Theory with Practical Experience
• 03/15/12 $80K Awarded to teachHOUSTON Program to Fund Science Experiments, Field Trips and Networking
• 03/07/12 UH Study: BP Oil Spill Hurt Salt Marshes, but Recovery Possible
• 03/06/12 UH Computer Scientists, Methodist Team Up to Prepare Surgeons for the Operating Room
• 02/22/12 Society of Physics Students Recognized as an Outstanding Chapter
• 02/16/12 Award Honors Promising Junior Faculty Members
• 02/13/12 Book Covers Application of Linear Inverse Theory
• 02/03/12 Sun Woo Kim Receives Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship
• 01/24/12 UH Physicist John Miller on Collective Quantum Tunneling of CDW Electrons
• 01/20/12 PNAS Classic Article Covers 1977 Evolutionary Biology Paper Co-Authored by UH's George Fox
• 01/09/12 Evaluating the Global Energy Balance of Titan
• 01/03/12 UH Physicist Receives $1.6 Million NIH Grant
• 2011
• 12/19/11 More than 450 Candidates Participate in Fall Commencement
• 12/14/11 Computer Science + Art = Apps
• 12/13/11 Three UH Teams Selected for 2012 Imagine Cup Finals
• 11/10/11 UH Physicist Part of Multi-Institution Team Trying to Develop New Solar Energy Technology
• 11/08/11 UH Receives $990K Grant to Enhance Cancer Research Facilities
• 11/04/11 Observations from the Cassini Spacecraft Provide Details of Saturn's Winds
• 11/02/11 Annual UH Mars Rover Event Gets $400K Boost from NASA
• 10/18/11 UH Gaming Program Recognized by the Texas Film Commission and the Entertainment Software Association
• 09/29/11 UH Researchers Explain Hormonal Role in Glucose and Fat Metabolism
• 09/27/11 Karolinska Institutet's Grand Silver Medal Awarded to Dr. Jan-Ake Gustafsson
• 09/20/11 UH Scientists Visit Coastal Wetlands in China
• 08/26/11 Mann Joins UH as a Professor of Geology
• 08/22/11 UH Researchers Explore Treatments for Breast and Colon
• 08/08/11 Glowinski Receives USACM Computational Fluid Dynamics Award
• 07/19/11 Study Reveals Climate History of Antarctic Peninsula
• 07/14/11 Moy Recognized for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences
• 07/12/11 Delcour named Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
• 07/08/11 UH Researcher an Author on Landmark Ovarian Cancer Study in Nature
• 06/20/11 Ignatiev Elected to Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences
• 06/15/11 UH Chemist Developing Materials to Detect, Repel E. coli
• 06/02/11 Work by UH Evolutionary Biologist May One Day Help with Chronic Diseases
• 05/25/11 Siberian Days of Science in Houston
• 05/18/11 ExxonMobil Donates More Than $500K to UH for Math, Science Initiatives
• 05/09/11 UH Chemist Investigates Material for Next-Generation Computer Memory
• 05/06/11 Two Students Named Goldwater Scholars, Two Receive Honorable Mention
• 04/21/11 Students Tackle Deforestation, Win First Prize with Video Game Design
• 04/01/11 Jan-Åke Gustafsson Leads Team with $5.2M for Prostate Cancer Research
• 03/22/11 Evolutionary 'Winners' and 'Losers' Revealed in Collaborative Study
• 03/07/11 Protecting Ecosystems, Pollution Remediation Goals of Research at UH
• 02/21/11 Top-Tier Work Earns UH Biologist Prestigious Humboldt Prize
• 02/17/11 UH Professor and 'Father of Chemical Engineering' Dies
• 01/20/11 Sensors to Detect Explosives, Monitor Food Being Developed at UH
• 01/12/11 Nuclear Receptors Reveal Possible Interventions for Cancer, Obesity
• 01/07/11 Memorial Service Scheduled For Physics Professor Michael Gorman
• 2010
• 12/28/10 Science Teacher Training Program Receives $1 Million Gift
• 11/23/10 UH Biochemist Wins Key Grants To Revolutionize Ovarian Cancer Treatment
• 11/19/10 UH Physicists Study Behavior of Enzyme Linked to Alzheimer's, Cancer
• 11/09/10 New NSM Dean Appointed
• 11/04/10 UH Physicist Plays Key Role In Joint U.S. - China Project Studying Origins of the Universe
• 10/29/10 University of Houston Receives $1.2 Million Grant for Alternative Energy Research
• 09/08/10 UH Geologists Find Parts of Northwest Houston Sinking Rapidly
• 08/24/10 Two UH Chemists Receive National Recognition
• 07/07/10 UH Receives $2.4 Million For New, Multidisciplinary Cancer Research
• 05/24/10 Computer Science Grad Student Wins Coveted NSF Fellowship
• 04/28/10 UH Teams Win 2nd and 3rd In National Game Design Contest
• 03/30/10 UH Computer Science Teams Among National Gaming Finalists
• 02/12/10 NSM Scientist Turns Skin Cells Into Heart Cells
• 01/19/10 UH Biology Professor Awarded Prestigious AAAS Honor
• 01/08/10 NSM Building on Minority Recruitment Successes