NSF grant will fund more than 30 students over the next five years
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to provide scholarships for students in the…
A professor with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is developing an imaging device that could increase the success of patients attempting to have children through in vitro fertilization.
Kirill Larin,…
Junior Austin Head spends 11 weeks investigating nanotechnology through the NanoJapan Program
It is not uncommon for undergraduate engineering students to seek out research opportunities over summer break, nor is it unusual for…
For as long as the U.S. Navy has had scuba divers, submarines and airplane pilots, it has had to deal with the effects of decompression sickness. This condition, which affects those who experience sudden, drastic changes in the…
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has nearly completed the renovation of its Biomedical Engineering Core Research Lab.
The renovation of the lab was spearheaded by…
Ralph Metcalfe, professor of mechanical engineering and deputy director of the UH biomedical engineering program, and his graduate student, Aishwarya Mantha, are working on a new tool to improve brain aneurysm treatment. Metcalfe…
Several members of the Cullen College of Engineering were honored at the annual research day of the University of Houston chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society and global honor society of scientists and engineers.…
Biomedical engineering undergraduate students at the UH Cullen College of Engineering gained ‘real world’ experience while participating in a research-intensive summer internship program at The Methodist Hospital. The students…
The American Society of Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) awarded a $500 fellowship to University of Houston biomedical engineering junior Hassan Khalil at their 51st Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. last weekend. The ten…
The Biomedical Engineering Program, which was launched last fall by the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, is quickly attaining a full staff with director Matt Franchek naming Ralph Metcalfe and Peter Vekilov as…
Plans to begin a new Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Houston cleared one last administrative hurdle recently when the Texas Coordinating Board granted its approval for a new undergraduate program in the field…
In support of the University of Houston's new biomedical engineering program, the Houston-based John S. Dunn Research Foundation has committed $500,000 to establish an endowed professorship.
The grant that creates the first John…
UH took another important step toward establishing a new degree program during Wednesday's Undergraduate Council meeting.
Larry Williams, biology professor and chairman of the council's committee on degree programs, presented a…
Two recent meetings between academic leaders at the Texas Medical Center and the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have laid the foundation for an unprecedented new relationship between engineering and medicine…
