Published on August 16th, 2022 | by Donna Keeya, Jhair Romero
A student was charged with felony arson after intentionally starting a fire and damaging four floors of the University Lofts on Monday night, according to court documents. Kevin Ekofo, 26, started the fire by lighting a …... Read More →
Published on May 18th, 2021 | by Jhair Romero
UH’s COVID-19 policy that required students, faculty, staff and visitors to wear face coverings on campus has been rescinded, effective immediately, after Gov. Greg Abbott signed an order prohibiting government entities from mandating masks on Tuesday …... Read More →
Published on April 30th, 2021 | by Donna Keeya, Jhair Romero
When I became editor in chief of The Cougar, just months after the coronavirus pandemic took hold, my goal for the newspaper was to meet the moment. I knew our responsibility as the University’s student news …... Read More →
Published on March 22nd, 2021 | by Jhair Romero
UH has been allocated 1,170 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from the Texas Department of State Health Services and will begin distributing them at the Student Health Center on Wednesday and Thursday. Students, faculty and …... Read More →
Published on February 26th, 2021 | by Jhair Romero
UH residential life director Antonio Pee was fired from a similar post at Michigan State University in February 2017 after making inappropriate and sexual contact with MSU student residents, according to disciplinary records recently obtained by …... Read More →
Published on February 24th, 2021 | by Jhair Romero
Despite the many screenshots circulating throughout the UH community on Wednesday afternoon, the University’s interim grading policy has not yet been reinstated and is “still under consideration,” spokesperson Shawn Lindsey said. The UH website on Wednesday …... Read More →
Published on February 15th, 2021 | by Jhair Romero
Update 6:15 p.m. Wednesday: Class cancellations and campus closure will run through Saturday, with UH opting to extend the emergency measures as much of the Houston region continues to battle power and water outages. Many residential …... Read More →
Published on February 3rd, 2021 | by Jhair Romero
Somewhere in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the early 1990s, a little girl’s life was about change. Violence had just broken out in the capital city after Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1992, sparking the Bosnian War. …... Read More →
Published on November 7th, 2020 | by Cristobella Durrette, Jhair Romero
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States after the 77-year-old defeated incumbent President Donald Trump in the heated 2020 presidential election. Biden, the former vice president under Barack Obama, …... Read More →
Published on October 30th, 2020 | by Donna Keeya, Jhair Romero
With just a few days to go until the Nov. 3 election, democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will visit UH on Friday night, the last day of early voting in Harris County, as part of …... Read More →
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