UH System Success Stories November 2010

William SherrillUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

For the second time in four years, the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at the C. T. Bauer College of Business has been ranked the best of its kind in the nation, landing at the top of The Princeton Review’s list of leading undergraduate entrepreneurship programs in the United States. The center is No. 1 on the list of the Top 25 Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurs. The program was ranked No. 1 in 2008 and No. 2 in 2007 and 2009. William Sherrill is the program’s founding director.
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Jennifer AbramsUH-DOWNTOWN

Alumnus Jennifer Abrams received a three-year, $33,000 fellowship from the American Society for Microbiology to support pioneering research into the molecular causes of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s and Parkinson’s. She was one of only seven students to win the national award.

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M. Bazlur RashidUH -
CLEAR LAKE

M. Bazlur Rashid, assistant professor of molecular biology in the School of Science and Computer Engineering, received a $341,934 award from the National Institutes of Health for his proposal “New Human Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase-binding Proteins in Testis: Possible Role in Fertility.”

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Lawrence RossowUH - VICTORIA

Two of the master’s-level counseling programs offered by the School of Education & Human Development received national accreditation for the first time after a rigorous two-year review. The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs accredited the Master of Education degrees in both community and school counseling. Lawrence Rossow is the school’s dean.

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