Academics & Research
Students propose designs for levee
Galveston Island is overdue for Hurricane protection, said two of the 12 UH architecture students who helped propose a new levee system that would span from Freeport to High Island and would include a...
UH students meet Warren Buffett, take tour of Berkshire Hathaway
Twenty students from the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at Bauer were given the opportunity to meet famed investor Warren Buffett on Jan. 13 in Omaha, Neb. The students, who were chosen based on essays they...
Imagine Cup 2012 half full of Cougars
Three of the six teams competing in the Microsoft US Imagine Cup 2012 finals will represent UH in game design, marking the fifth-straight year that the University has had teams enter the competition. The competition...
Engineering college receives $1 million
The colleges of engineering and technology received $1.25 million in donations from The Petroleum Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in December. The Cullen College of Engineering received $1 million to sustain the...
Cougars to compete in design ‘eco-marathon’
Five seniors from the College of Technology have been hard at work creating a prototype gas-friendly car to enter in two different competitions to fulfill their Senior Design requirements. According to Senior Design Instructor Raresh...
Prof pioneers receptor based drugs
A research team that includes a professor at UH’s Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling is endorsing a new approach to producing drugs that treat cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis. CNRCS director Dr....
UH Master of Laws ranks as top program in Texas
The UH Law Center’s Master of Laws program was voted No. 1 in Texas by lawyers across the state. The Best of Texas survey, first conducted in 2010 by Texas Lawyers magazine, was sent to...
Research Day shows off big ideas
Students filled UH’s Rockwell Pavilion Thursday for Undergraduate Research Day, where they set up displays for projects they have worked on all year. The event was a joint effort between the Office of Undergraduate Research...
Speaker gives insight into design at Architecture lecture
An industrial designer gave a lecture highlighting what a designer needs to keep in mind when constructing a product on Thursday at Hines Theater. Lisa Krohn spoke about “The Ten Commandments of Design” in the third...
Architecture college adds interior design
With the recent addition of an undergraduate interior architecture program, students enrolled in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture have another way to master their craft as they pursue a degree. Serving as director...
