INSTITUTIONAL
The UH Child Care Center has earned accreditation from the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation
and School Improvement.
ALUMNI
Laurie Glaze received the Houston Woman Magazine
Savvy Sister Award, which recognizes an outstanding woman who
has made a significant career change, interesting business maneuver
or an innovative change to her workplace.
FACULTY/STAFF
Lisa Alastuey, visiting assistant professor of health and human
performance, was named University Health Educator of the Year
by the Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation
and Dance.
Pharmacy professor Rajender R. Aparasu has received a one-year,
$98,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality to evaluate the use of atypical antipsychotic agents
in the elderly.
College of Technology faculty won the American Society for Engineering
Education (ASEE) Mechanical Engineering Division 2009 Best Poster
Award at its annual conference and exposition. The poster illustrates
the article “A Two-Year Common Template for Mechanical
Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technology,” which
appears in the 2009 ASEE proceedings. Enrique
Barbieri, Raresh
Pascali, Miguel Ramos and Dean
William Fitzgibbon co-authored
the article.
Margaret Cheung, assistant professor of physics, received a
$219,000 National Science Foundation award to study the behavior
of protein folding and interactions in a cell.
Eugene L. Chiappetta, professor of curriculum and instruction,
received the Texas Chemical Council Excellence in Industry Education
Award.
Rustin Crutchley, clinical assistant professor in the College
of Pharmacy, recently became the first pharmacist to be accepted
into the one-year STAR (Steps Toward Academic Research) Fellowship
Program at the Texas Center for Health Disparities.
Zhu Han, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
received a Best Paper Award at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers Inc.) International Conference on Communications
for his paper “Crystallized Rates Region of the Interference
Channel via Correlated Equilibrium with Interference as Noise.”
Andrew S. Jackson, professor emeritus in the health and human
performance department, was honored by the Texas Chapter of the
American College of Sports Medicine for his outstanding contributions
to exercise science and sports medicine.
Lewis T. May, adjunct associate professor of architecture and
senior vice president of PageSoutherlandPage, was a keynote speaker
for Landscape Architecture and Resorts: A New Vision, an international
planning and landscape architecture conference in Amman, Jordan.
May’s presentation was “Exporting the Creative Process.” King
Abdullah II of Jordan hosted and sponsored the conference.
Mark O’Riley, Sanjay Shiwprasad and Emmett Sullivan, employees
in the environmental health and risk management department, co-authored
the presentation “Minimizing Chemical Waste Without the
Big Bang,” which was featured at the American Society of
Safety Engineer’s annual conference. The presentation was
about the department’s success in safely minimizing the
amount of hazardous waste generated at UH during the past few
years.
Tom Oldham, John H. Freeman Professor of Law, was appointed
to the board of editors of the American Bar Association’s
journal Family Law Quarterly.
Norma E. Olvera, associate professor in the department of health
and human performance (HHP), was awarded a $75,000 grant from
Salud America!, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, to conduct research on reducing and preventing obesity
among Latino youths.
Floyd W. Robinson, director of the Health Center, and Laura
Moore, the center’s chief nurse, presented the teleseminar “H1N1
(swine fl u virus): Raise Awareness, Not Concern on Campuses” to
the Council on Law in Higher Education.
Stephen Zamora, Leonard B. Rosenberg Professor of Law, has been
appointed to the Association of American Law Schools Committee
on Freedom and Academic Tenure.
STUDENTS
Three education students received several awards. S.
Siddiqi was selected as a 2009 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholar by
the Kaiser Family Foundation. Kelly Strohacker received the UH
College of Education Graduate Student Research Award and placed
second in the Texas Chapter of the American College of Sports
Medicine Student Manuscript Award Competition. Norah
Vasen received
the 2009 American Association for Health Education/American Alliance
for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Outstanding
Health Education Major of the Year Award.
