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A research intern in the Rehabilitation Engineering for Improving Neuromotor Control Laboratory – REIGN – has received $4,000 from the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, to support her work and to attend the 2020…
REIGN lab student earns SURF award
When Faheem Ershad first came to the University of Houston as a biomedical engineering undergraduate student in 2014, he had some interest in teaching in the future, but that interest has only increased as he has served as a…
Rubbery circuits lead to first place for biomed's Ershad
Daniel Ajuzie, a biomedical engineering doctoral student at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, presented a poster at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ inaugural AfroBiotech Conference 2019 held in October in…
UH Biomedical Engineering Student Wins NSF Grant to Present Research At AfroBiotech Conference
The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) awarded seven of their 22 engineering scholarships this year to students attending the UH Cullen College of Engineering. The selected undergraduate and graduate…
Seven UH Engineering Students Win 2019 ASIE Scholarships
UH graduate students inspire each other with accomplishments Graduate students representing the UH Cullen College of Engineering shone bright in the university-wide Graduate Research Showcase hosted Nov. 1, 2019 by the UH…
Cullen College Students Shine in UH Graduate Research Showcase
University of Houston Researchers Report Adaptable Stimulation Treatment Researchers at the University of Houston have found neuro biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease that can help create the next generation of “smart” deep brain…
Smart Brain Stimulators: Next-Gen Parkinson’s Disease Therapy
Recipients Include Three Cullen College Coogs Seven current and former University of Houston students – three of whom represent the Cullen College of Engineering – have earned highly coveted National Science Foundation (NSF)…
UH Students and Alumni Earn Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Alumni Spotlight Megan Goh (BSBE ’18), a 2018-2019 Fulbright grant recipient, is conducting research in Germany. She is studying how and when infantile brain disorders occur in animal models using photoacoustic imaging. Her lab…
Cullen College Alumna Conducts Fulbright Research in Germany
Collaborative Effort Yields Parkinson’s Disease Research Findings Ilknur Telkes, who earned a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Houston last year and was a 2017 North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS)…
UH Alumna’s Paper Lands In Prestigious PNAS Journal
An engineering connection spanning continents and countries Cullen College of Engineering alumnus Hasan Onur Keles (BME 2015) was recently appointed chair of the electrical and electronic engineering department at Istinye…
UH Alumnus Appointed Chair of Engineering Department of Turkish University
Research proposes computer-based assessment of Parkinson’s patients more reliable Musa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, presented a poster at the Neuromodulation Symposium…
UH Student’s Poster Places at Neuromodulation Symposium
Three Recipients Forging New Paths for Women in Education Two University of Houston students and a faculty member, striving to set examples for future generations of women, have received awards from the prestigious American…
UH Students, Faculty Earn AAUW Awards for Tackling Educational Barriers
Priscella Asman fell in love online – more than 6,000 miles across the North Atlantic Ocean while sitting at a computer in Ghana – with the biomedical engineering program at the University of Houston. She read about Cullen…
From Ghana to Houston: UH Grad Student Wins AAUW Fellowship, Continues to Follow Her Dreams
Every academic year, the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering celebrates student academic achievement by choosing an Outstanding Senior and an Outstanding Junior. Not only do the chosen represent hard work and…
UH Cullen College Recognizes Outstanding Students
Amanda Nash, a first-generation undergraduate student at the University of Houston, likes to combine biology, engineering, research and awards. “I love learning new things and trying to understand the world around me,” Nash said…
PROMES Scholar Wins Student Leadership Award for the 2018 BEYA STEM Conference
For engineering graduate students bound for careers in academia, there’s probably no better honor than to be accepted into the Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators (ISEE) Professional Development Program (PDP), a…
Setting Her Sights on Teaching: Graduate Student Completes Three-Part ISEE Course
Tianfu Wu used to dream of the day when cancer could be detected long before it was diagnosed. Now he sees that day dawning because of a system his research group created called the ultrasensitive polymeric sensing system (UPSS…
Finding Disease and Toxins Early: Tianfu Wu’s Laboratory Creates Ultra-Sensitive Detection Tool
In the summer of 2015 UH biomedical engineering student Pietro Cicalese found himself surrounded by astonishing squalor in Haiti. The area was densely populated yet there was no water or medical resources for the sick. And the…
Cullen College Student Spreads International Compassion and Kindness to Needy
Approximately 120 Houston high school students blasted onto the UH campus to launch into engineering! The 5th annual “Launch into Engineering” is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) outreach event to attract…
UH Society of Women Engineers Hosts High Schoolers
Of all the concepts that a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering has to grasp, grasping is at the top. “Grasping is one of the most important hand movements performed in daily life and a hand neuroprosthetic should be able to…
Biomed Grad Student Develops Algorithm for How Brain Controls Hand, Wins Award at International Brain Conference