Year 1 Scholars
The University celebrated faculty who had individual achievements in four categories as Year 1 Scholars. These categories were selected for 50-in-5 recognition based on the national visibility these scholarly achievements bring UH. For the National Recognition category, honorees are selected by the colleges based on their high-level, discipline-specific achievements.
Major Grants
Patents
National Recognition
Impact50 Publications
Major Grant Honorees
Bauer College of Business
Steven Lawrence
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Paul Cirino
David Francis
Luis Oliviera
College of Education
Consuelo Arbona
Jennifer Chauvot
Catherine Horn
Lyle McKinney
Cullen College of Engineering
Salavat Aglyamov
Muayyad Al-Ubaidi
Haleh Ardebili
Aiden Eblimit
Juan Fernandez Diaz
Hadi Ghasemi
Craig Glennie
Nuri Ince
Kirill Larin
Alamgir Karim
David Mayerich
Chandra Mohan
Muna Naash
Hien Nguyen
Saurabh Prasad
Hanadi Rifai
Badrinath Roysam
Ramesh Shrestha
Tianfu Wu
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Tai-Yen Chen
Margaret Cheung-Wyker
Andrew Hamilton
Jiwen He
Seema Khurana
Frank McKeon
Richard Meisel
Monique Ogletree-Hughes
Ioannis Pavlidis
Donna Stokes
College of Optometry
David Berntsen
Louvenia Carter-Dawson
Vivien Coulson-Thomas
Laura Frishman
Lisa Ostrin
Nimesh Patel
Eric Ritchey
College of Pharmacy
Diana Chow
Gregory Cuny
Jiukuan Hao
Ming Hu
Xinli Liu
James Doug Thornton
Meghana Trivedi
Gomika Udugamasooriya
Matthew Wanat
Graduate College of Social Work
Reiko Boyd
McClain Sampson
TIMES
Tammy Tolar
Patent Honorees
Cullen College of Engineering
Jiming Bao
Nikunj Bhagat
Jose Contreras-Vidal
Vincent Donnelly
Demetre Economou
Atilla Kilicarslan
Leonard Yanliang Liang
Saurabh Prasad
Jeffrey Rimer
Debora Rodrigues
Venkat Selvamanickam
Li Sun
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Reza Abbasgholizadeh
Steven Bark
James Briggs
John Craft
Seamus Curran
Rebecca Forrest
Robert Fox
Jateen Gandhi
Scott Gilbertson
P. Shiv Halasyamani
Allan J. Jacobson
Ioannis Kakadiaris
Yu Liu
Ognjen Miljanic
John Neese
Zhifeng Ren
Robert Schwartz
Donna Stokes
Zhongjia Tang
Leon Thomsen
Shoujun Xu
College of Pharmacy
Diana Chow
Jason Eriksen
Vincent Tam
Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH
Abdelhak Bensaoula
College of Technology
Luca Pollonini
Francisco Robles Hernandez
Other Honorees
Kang-Shyang Liao
Goran Majkic
Wilna Moree
Alexandar Wang
National Recognition Honorees
Bauer College of Business
David Cook
College of Education
Conra Gist
April Peters-Hawkins
Catherine Horn
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Richard Armstrong
Hosam Aboul-Ela
Paul Butler
Christian Eberhart
Jack Fletcher
Billy Hawkins
Nicolas Kanellos
Lan Ni
Kevin Prufer
Cristina Rivera-Garza
Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
Tamler Sommers
College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Olafs Daugulis
Loi Do
P. Shiv Halasyamani
Eva Harth
Allan J. Jacobson
Thomas Lapen
Judy I-Chia Wu
College of Nursing
Cheryl Brohard
Kathryn Tart
Shainy Varghese
College of Technology
Jerry Waite
Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management
JéAnna Abbott
Ki-Joon Back
Carl Boger
Mary Dawson
Agnes DeFranco
Priyanko Guchait
Jaewook Kim
Yoon Koh
Minwoo Lee
Tiffany Legendre
Juan Madera
Cristian Morosan
Jay Neal
Dennis Reynolds
Sujata Sirsat
Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design
Gail Peter Borden
George Chow
Jeff Feng
Dietmar Froehlich
Mark Kimbrough
EunSook Kwon
Michael Kubo
Bruce Race
Shafik Rifaat
Marta Rodriguez
Susan Rogers
Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts
Michael Ray Charles
Matthew Dirst
Dana Frankfort
Natilee Harren
Stephan Hillerbrand
Barbara Rose Lange
Rick Lowe
Howard Pollack
Paige Willson
Sandra Zalman
UH Law Center
Barbara Evans
Blake Hudson
Victor Flatt
Renee Knake
Sapna Kumar
James Nelson
Teddy Rave
Jessica Roberts
Publication Honorees
Cullen College of Engineering
Vemuri Balakotaiah
Jiming Bao
Lars C. Grabow
Michael Harold
Yandi Hu
Juan C. Fernandez-Diaz
Alamgir Karim
Leonard Yanliang Liang
David Mayerich
Jeffrey Rimer
Jae-Hyun Ryou
Jeremy Palmer
Wei-Chuan Shih
Ramesh Shrestha
Tianfu Wu
Yan Yao
Cunjiang Yu
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Matthew W. Gallagher
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Amin Esmaeilniakooshkghazi
Jakoah Brgoch
Maurice Brookhart
Shuo Chen
Tai-Yen Chen
Paul Ching-Wu Chu
Olafs Daugulis
Arnold M. Guloy
Allan J. Jacobson
Kresimir Josic
Preethi H. Gunaratne
P. Shiv Halasyamani
Seema Khurana
Thomas Lapen
Liming Li
Ognjen Miljanic
William Ott
Ioannis Pavlidis
Claudia Ratti
Zhifeng Ren
Zhongjia Tang
Thomas Teets
Mehmet Sen
Oomman Varghese
Xiqu Wang
Judy I-Chia Wu
Yingcai Zheng
College of Optometry
Vijaykrishna Raghunathan
College of Pharmacy
Kim K. Birtcher
Diana Chow
Gregory Cuny
Bin Guo
College of Technology
Francisco Robles Hernandez
UH Law Center
Barbara Evans