July 28, 2010

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Design grads try out architecture Wednesday, July 28, 2010News

Design grads try out architecture

For most college students, summer is a time to relax and enjoy a break from studies, but for first-year master’s students of UH’s Graduate Design/Build Studio (GDBS) program, this summer is all work. The ...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010Academics & Research

$2.4m to aid UH cancer research

Cancer researchers at UH were awarded a $2.4 million grant to fund a program that focuses on a multi-disciplinary approach to fighting the disease. The grant is the second awarded to UH by the ...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010Crime

Campus crime log

The following is a partial report of campus crime between July 17 and July 26. All information is selected from the files of the UH police department. The information in italics indicates when ...

Cougar earns gold medal in relay Wednesday, July 28, 2010Track & Field

Cougar earns gold medal in relay

Errol Nolan came home from Canada adding more hardware to his collection of medals after the IAAF Junior World Championships Sunday. Nolan and his American teammates won the 4x400-meter relay clocking in at ...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010Sports

Fighting Words: All-star lineups

Andrew Taylor: There’s no problem here All-star ballers like Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh have the power to demand their salaries and their desires as players. Money talks but so do ...

Perfectly crafted, no ‘Salt’ needed Wednesday, July 28, 2010Movies

Perfectly crafted, no ‘Salt’ needed

After a lukewarm summer full of so-so movies, Salt looked like it would fall right in line with the likes of Predators and The Last Airbender. It’s always nice to be surprised. Salt starts just ...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010Life & Arts

Cheap things to do in Houston

Summer is quickly coming to an end; in less than a month the fall semester will begin. Don’t let classes and internships take away the only remaining break that year round students get ...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010Columns

Perry orders mental health cuts

Faced with a large deficit, Texas state leaders have proposed to eliminate $134 million this week from its mental health programs. The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) recently sent out a proposal ...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010Columns

Wikileaks does the right thing

Last Sunday, an enormous set of over 76,000 military reports from the war in Afghanistan, a collection called the Afghan War Diary, became available to the public online via wikileaks.org. The reports detail ...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010Staff Editorial

As companies gripe, music industry destroys itself

Are you being spoon-fed music? Even if you don’t only buy music you hear on the radio, your musical taste may be more influenced by the media than you realize. A recent article ...

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