Year 2 Scholars
The University celebrated faculty who had individual achievements in four categories as Year 2 Scholars. These categories were selected for 50-in-5 recognition based on the national visibility these scholarly achievements bring UH.
The Top 50 faculty who had peer-reviewed publications with the highest impact factors, who received national awards and who published single-author books in 2019 were celebrated in November 2021 by President Khator, Provost Short, VPR Elnashai, deans and chairs at Wortham House. Faculty who earned major grant awards and patents in FY19-20 will be celebrated in February 2022.
Major Grants
Patents
National Recognition
Impact50 Publications
Major Grant Honorees
Bauer College of Business
Steven Lawrence
College of Education
Conra Gist
Jorge Gonzalez
Jacqueline Hawkins
Catherine Horn
Milena Keller-Margulis
Shawn Kent
Anne McClellan
April Peters-Hawkins
Augustina Reyes
Kristi Santi
Amber Thompson
Cullen College of Engineering
Muayyad Al-Ubaidi
Syed Farouq-Ali
Howard Gifford
Craig Glennie
Preston Hartzell
Lori Hathon
Harish Krishnamoorthy
Yanliang Liang
Kirill Larin
Chandra Mohan
Muna Naash
Kaushik Rajashekara
Hanadi Rifai
Mehmet Orman
Mario Romero Ortega
Pradeep Sharma
Sergey Shevkoplyas
Ganesh Thakury
George Wong
Yan Yao
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Coleen Carlson
Jack Fletcher
David Francis
Luis Medina
Jennifer Vardeman
Steven Woods
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Rene Bellwied
Daniel Cherdack
Mini Das
Loi Do
Paige Evans
Lisa Koerner
Erin Kelleher
Frank McKeon
Lawrence Pinsky
Andrew Renshaw
Robert Stewart
Donna Stokes
Jaspal Subhlok
Anthony Timmins
Judy Wu
Wa Xian
Melissa Zastrow
College of Optometry
Vallabh Das
College of Pharmacy
Tahir Hussain
Ashok Kumar
Xiang Li
College of Technology
Zheng Fan
Weihang Zhu
Patent Honrees
Cullen College of Engineering
Salavat Aglyamov
Ji Chen
Vincent Donnelly
Demetre Economou
Christine Ehlig-Economides
David Jackson
Kirill Larin
Yanliang Liang
Jeffrey Rimer
Jae-Hyun Ryou
Venkat Selvamanickam
Wei-Chuan Shih
Gangbing Song
Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan
Richard Willson
Yan Yao
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Wei-Kan Chu
Seamus Curran
P. Shiv Halasyamani
Pei-Herng Hor
Alex Ignatiev
Allan Jacobson
Ognjen Miljanic
Raja Muthupillai
Zhifeng Ren
Thamar Solorio
Oomman Varghese
Yuhong Wang
Shoujun Xu
College of Technology
Luca Pollonini
Francisco Robles-Hernandez
Xiaojing Yuan
George Zouridakis
National Recognition Honorees: National Awards and Single-Author Books
Bauer College of Business
Vanessa Patrick
Cullen College of Engineering
Haleh Ardebili
College of Education
Lyle McKinney
Cullen College of Engineering
Sheereen Majd
Hobby School of Public Affairs
Johanna Luttrell
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Alessandro Carrera
Jeffrey Church
Alin Fumurescu
Paul Guajardo
Arturo Hernandez
Gerald Horne
Frank Holt
Natalia Milanesio
Duy Lap Nguyen
David Phillips
Jose Ramon Ruisanchez
Susan Rasmussen
Cristina Rivera Garza
Nancy Young
Leandra Zarnow
Moores School of Music
Courtney Crappell
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Seamus Curran
Edward Kao Do
Richard Meisel
Thomas Teets
Jonny Wu
College of Technology
William Conklin
Andy Hines
Impact50 Publication Honorees
Bauer College of Business
Xiao Ma
College of Education
Rosenda Murillo
Cullen College of Engineering
Jiming Bao
Ji Chen
Hadi Ghasemi
Zhu Han
Michael Harold
Hyongki Lee
Yanliang Liang
Chandra Mohan Liang
Jeremy Palmer
Jeffery Rimer
Jae-Hyun Ryou
Venkat Selvamanickam
Xiaonan-Shan Shih
Navin Varadarajan
Peter Vekilov
Di Yang
Yan Yao
Cunjiang Yu
UH Law Center
Jessica Roberts
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Cameron Buckner
Jaye Derrick
C. Raymond Knee
Rheeda Walker
Josh Weisberg
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Eric Bittner
Shuo Chen
C.W. Paul Chu
Wei-Kan Chu
Olafs Daugulis
Omprakash Gnawali
Dan Graur
Preethi Gunaratne
P. Shiv Halasyamani
Eva Harth
Kresimir Josic
T. Randall Lee
Frank McKeon
Zhifeng Ren
William Sager
John Suppe
Thomas Teets
Jonny Wu
Judy Wu
College of Technology
Zheng Fan
Francisco C. Robles Hernandez
Texas Center for Superconductivity
Liangzi Deng
Dezhi Wang
Celebration Events
Year 2 Scholars in the Impact50 and National Recognition categories were celebrated at Wortham House in November 2021. Major grant and patent recipients were celebrated in February 2022.