Assistant professor Andrew Nordin is part of a collaborative effort, “Free Rein,” to show via mobile EEG how music and dance influence the mind at a certain of performances recently.
He talked about this effort on Houston Public…
University of Houston students aren't just learning in classrooms — they’re helping advance the future of health care through hands-on research in cancer, diabetes and microbiology planetary protection. Working alongside faculty…
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student Guzel Musina has been awarded her second predoctoral fellowship by the American Heart Association (AHA) for her project, “Novel optogenetics tool for the mouse embryonic cardiodynamic research…
A passionate interest in their chosen topic and a range of engineering knowledge were the keys to success for the team of five that took home the audience award for the Fall 2025 UH NAE Grand Challenges Summit & Create@UH…
Sanidh Shah, an undergraduate honors biochemistry student and a student researcher in Cullen Endowed Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Kirill Larin’s Biomedical Optics Lab (BOL), was selected to participate in the…
In a finding set to change the way disease is monitored, Chandra Mohan, an international expert and pioneer in lupus research at the University of Houston, is reporting that urine samples can indicate lupus nephritis in a…
For Amanda Nash, there isn’t one specific factor that can fully explain how she went from not planning on going to college at all, to becoming an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering with multiple degrees from the University of…
The University of Houston is a national leader in vision science, receiving more National Eye Institute research funding than any other institution in Texas and placing among the top 10 recipients nationwide. With 29 active NEI-…
A team of endowed professors and vision researchers at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has been awarded more than $3.6 million by the National Eye Institute to investigate a gene in the eye, crucial for…
A new review paper published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers from the research group of Kirill Larin, Cullen Endowed Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, highlights several key advantages and limitations of optical…
With a $1 million Impact Award from the U.S. Department of Defense, Tianfu Wu, a University of Houston biomedical engineer, is developing a method to send medication directly to the spleen where certain immune cells cause the…
An assistant professor at the Cullen College of Engineering has received $629,000 in funding to conduct research into helping patients recover after spinal cord injuries.
Zhengwei Li is an assistant professor and Presidential…
With a $1.2M grant from the Department of Defense, Tianfu Wu, associate professor of biomedical engineering, will lead a team of researchers, partnering with those from MD Anderson Cancer Center, in finding early markers for…
The University of Houston and the Cullen College of Engineering have received a generous $1.1 million gift from the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation to advance potentially life-changing research on Usher Syndrome, a rare…
The new University of Houston Cancer Immunotherapy Biomarker Core facility will accelerate biomarker discovery, improve immunotherapy targeting and expand research capacity across Texas — enhancing the state’s competitiveness in…
REMINDER! You can view the ceremony live on YouTube by click here! A replay will be available after the ceremonies as well.
Hello to all friends, family and colleagues of the Cullen College of Engineering’s Spring 2025 graduation…
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to recognize the stellar research and teaching efforts of 28 different members of its community with the 2024–25 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards.
The winners were announced at the…
Guzel Musina, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship by the American Heart Association (AHA) for her project, “Novel optogenetics tool for the mouse embryonic…
The Cullen College of Engineering remains among the Top 50 public graduate engineering schools in the nation according to U.S. News & World Reports, coming in at #44 in the 2025 rankings released on April 8.
Cullen is ranked…
More than 60 professors from the Cullen College of Engineering were recognized for their accomplishments as scholars, researchers and academic innovators on March 31 as part of the President’s Circle Awards, presented by the…
