Year 3 Scholars
The University celebrated faculty who had individual achievements in four categories as Year 3 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 2020 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 FY20-21 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
Consuelo Arbona
Ann Chen
Virmarie Correa-Fernandez
Marcel de Dios
Elsa Gonzalez
Ezemenari Obasi
Lorraine Reitzel
College of Engineering
Salavat Aglyamov
Ji Chen
Lars Grabow
Michael Harold
Ramanan Krishnamoorti
Kirill Larin
Goran Majkic
David Mayerich
Chandra Mohan
Jeffery Rimer
Venkat Selvamanickam
Wei-Chuan Shih
Navin Varadarajan
Peter Vekilov
Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management
Juan Madera
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Beau Alward
Julia Babcock
Gabriela Baeza Ventura
Coleen Carlson
Jack Fletcher
David Francis
Matthew Gallagher
Lorra Garey
Elena Grigorenko
Colin Haile
Therese Kosten
Paulina Kulesz
Jeremy Miciak
Carla Sharp
Christiane Spitzmueller
Anka Vujanovic
Michael Zvolensky
College of Medicine
Bettina Beech
Marino Bruce
Olivera Nesic-Taylor
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Bradley Carrow
Stuart Dryer
James Flynn
Ioannis Pavlidis
Weiyi Peng
College of Optometry
Michael Twa
College of Pharmacy
Gregory Cuny
Mingfu Wu
Yang Zhang
Graduate College of Social Work
Samira Ali
Sarah Narendorf
McClain Sampson
Quenette Walton
College of Technology
Peggy Lindner
Fatima Merchant
Patent Honorees
Cullen College of Engineering
Haleh Ardebili
Yuhua Chen
Michael Nikolaou
Jae-Hyun Ryou
Robello Samuel
Venkat Selvamanickam
Wei-Chuan Shih
Gangbing Son
Megan Robertson
Navin Varadarajan
Richard Willson
John Wolfe
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Jakoah Brgoch
Zhifeng Ren
College of Pharmacy
Damith Gomika Udugamasooriya
College of Technology
Anima Bose
National Recognition Honorees: National Awards and Single-Author Books
College of the Arts
Natilee Harren
College of Education
Elsa Gonzalez
Dave Louis
Lyle McKinney
Cullen College of Engineering
Shailendra Joshi
Triantafillos Mountziaris
Pradeep Sharma
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Anadeli Bencomo
Alessandro Carrera
Tyson Chatagnier
Matt Clavin
Alexey Golubev
Paul Guajardo
Gerald Horne
David McNally
Cristina Rivera Garza
Julie Tolliver
Dietrich Vollrath
Rheeda Walker
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Jakoah Brgoch
Judy Wu
Graduate College of Social Work
Nicole Bromfield
Allen Rubin
Impact50 Publication Honorees
Cullen College of Engineering
Haleh Ardebili
Praveen Bollini
Long Chang
Ji Chen
Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz
Hadi Ghasemi
Lars Grabow
Zhu Han
Michael Harold
Alamgir Karim
Yanliang Liang
Dmitri Litvinov
Chandra Mohan
Jeremy Palmer
Jeffrey Rimer
Jae-Hyun Ryou
Pradeep Sharma
Peter Vekilov
Di Yang
Yan Yao
Cunjiang Yu
UH Law Center
Jim Hawkins
Jessica Roberts
College of Liberal Arts and Social Science
Cameron Buckner
Ryan Kennedy
Luis Medina
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Steven Baldelli
Rene Bellwied
Jakoah Brgoch
Di Chen
Shuo Chen
Daniel Cherdack
Olafs Daugulis
P. Shiv Halasyamani
Eva Harth
Allan Jacobson
Frank McKeon
Lawrence Pinsky
Zhifeng Ren
Anders Strom
Anthony Timmins
Rakesh Verma
Xiqu Wang
Judy Wu
Wa Xian
College of Optometry
David Berntsen
Amber Gaume
Maria Walker
College of Pharmacy
Kevin Garey
College of Technology
Zheng Fan
Francisco Robles Hernandez
Fatima Merchant