UH researchers are using computer technology designed for video-game consoles to find oil reserves.
The University of Houston has a significant impact on the economic vitality of Houston and beyond. Each year, thousands of talented UH graduates invest their knowledge and skills in Houston through jobs with area businesses, institutions, and nonprofit agencies. Students and faculty regularly make groundbreaking discoveries in medical research, technology, public safety, and more. And for many members of Houston’s business community, the University provides valuable professional development opportunities in a wide range of disciplines.
NSF grants are awarded to junior faculty members for their outstanding work as researchers and educators. Grants will help each build their research programs.
UH vision scientist Jason Porter received a $1.85 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate whether his techniques are more effective than others in understanding the earliest changes of glaucoma, which could lead to developing a way to earlier diagnose the disease.
Research continues by scientists worldwide to treat, delay and prevent Alzheimer's Disease. One of those researchers is getting an early start. Jon Casey Berridge won’t complete his undergraduate degree at the University of Houston until December 2012, but for more than a year he’s investigated the neurons of Alzheimer’s afflicted brains to find out the impact they have on cell signaling.
Mayors from across the western United States will converge on the city of Houston to learn how they can become active participants in the design of their respective cities. The University of Houston’s Community Design Resource Center is hosting the Mayors’ Institute on City Design: West Feb. 1 – 3.
The building blocks of contemporary architecture can be found at the University of Houston’s Materials Research Collaborative (MRC), located on the first floor of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. It brings contemporary building blocks and innovative, sustainable materials and processes to regional architects, designers and students.
Researchers will use unanalyzed satellite images to study the Congo River Basin's 2.3 million square miles.
Tough economic times did not curb our appetite for games of chance. A new UH study found more Texans took a chance on Texas Lottery games in 2011.
The UH Thomas T.C. Hsu Structural Research Laboratory draws scientists and engineers from around the world. By predicting the behavior of a structure, the lab has helped improve the safety and design of everything from offshore oil drilling platforms to high-rise buildings, highway girders and even nuclear containment structures.
The University of Houston’s Tracey Ledoux, assistant professor of health and human performance, is using an innovative approach to studying food addictions in hopes of finding strategies to assess and treat them.
A Ph.D. candidate in the department of health and human performance has received some help from NASA as he researches how the muscles of astronauts respond to microgravity.
