Academics & Research
Phronesis to continue fairness lecture series
Representatives from UH Hobby Center for Public Policy and students from the Phronesis Politics and Ethics Honors College Program invited Thomas Hurka, scholar of moral and political philosophy, to speak on fairness in today’s society ranging...
CLASS majors salary may plateau less early than their STEM counterparts
With unemployment on the rise, students have been enrolling in universities with a different attitude toward choosing a major. A study done in 2010 by Anthony P. Carnevale, the director of the Georgetown University Center...
Talk discusses empathy and disasters
Ethnographers and folklorists from Japan and northern Ohio came to UH on Monday for a special presentation on the scale and regularity of natural disasters and how to efficiently react to victim’s needs. The discussion...
Subsea engineering program starts up
The subsea deep sea well model students will be using is being housed in Building 14 in Energy Research Park. | Hannah Laamoumi/The Daily Cougar UH is now offering the nation’s first subsea engineering...
Professor awarded $2.1 million from NIH for cancer research
A researcher works in assistant professor Navin Varadarajan’s lab. | Bethel Glumac/The Daily Cougar A chemical and biomolecular engineering professor will research ways to modify human immune cells to fight against cancer with a...
UH, a home for nontraditional students
An increasing number of students — up to 40 percent, according to The Washington Post — are nontraditional. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nontraditional students are classified by the following traits: a...
Undergrads showcase research projects
More than 125 undergraduates, representing 11 colleges, showcased their latest research efforts on Thursday for the eighth annual Undergraduate Research Day. “It is clear that the University of Houston community has embraced undergraduate research and...
UH Technology department to open retailing graduate program
Beginning in Fall 2013, aspiring graduate students can look forward to the newest program from the Department of Human Development and Consumer Sciences. The Master of Science in global retailing will offer students the chance...
Holocaust Torah to be displayed in library
Brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, Jason Bravman and Matthew Boutin-Bloomberg (right) and Yuval Klein (left), pose for a picture in front of the Torah. | Image courtesy of Yuval Klein UH faculty, alumni,...
UH collaborates to solve device overheating issues
Recent work at UH has made strides in the management of heat in modern technology — a problem that has persisted over the past two decades. As electronic devices and equipment grow smaller, they leave...