President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to make health insurance affordable and accessible to all. With 46 million people having no coverage, that’s no easy task. Seth Chandler, co-director of the UH Law Center’s Health Law & Policy Institute, specializes in insurance law and related fields, such as economic analysis of law. Reach him at 713-743-2123 or schandler@uh.edu. Search for UH faculty experts.

The first group of University of Houston graduates with master's degrees in petroleum geophysics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa pause for a group photo with (centered left to right) John F. Casey, chair of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UH, George Smith, a senior lecturer in applied geophysics at UCT, John Bear, dean of the UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Don Van Nieuwenhuise, director of professional geoscience programs at UH.
A high-resolution photo is available by contacting Lisa Merkl at lkmerkl@uh.edu or 713-743-8192.
Photo courtesy of Katherine Traut, University of Cape Town