Environment

December 06, 2024

Houston History Magazine Panel: "Resilient Houston: Documenting Hurricane Harvey"
Guest Speaker Panel: "When the Lights (and Heat) Went out in Texas: The Texas Blackout in Historical Context"
Guest Speaker Panel: "Race, Health, and Air Pollution in Houston: Environmental Justice During COVID-19"
Guest Speaker Panel: "Seadrift Documentary Panel Discussion: Race, Refugees, and Redemption"
Charles Ciliske: "Buffalo Bayou & Tributaries Flood Control Project"
Stephen Klineberg: "Prophetic City: Tracking Responses to Mounting Inequalities, Ethnic Transformations, and Severe Storms"
Roberto Barrios: "Cacophony of Disaster: Interpreting Houston's Many Voices in Harvey's Aftermath"
Rebecca Benefiel: "Roman Graffiti and Digital Humanities"
Eric Magrane: "Climate, History, and the Poetry of Place: The Sonoran Desert and Beyond"
Houston History Magazine Panel: "Houston's Helping Hand: Remembering Hurricane Katrina"
Richard Mizelle: Cultivating Public Memory during Disease and Disaster
Merlin Chowkwanyun: Civic Tech, History, and Environmental Health Protection: Leveraging IT for Social Good?

Ying Xu: Finding the Heart of the Matter

Ph.D. candidate Ying Xu’s personal connection to cardiovascular disease is fueling her research into more precise treatments for heart failure and arrhythmia. Supported by an American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship, Xu is investigating how the AKAP12-PDE8A signaling pathway disrupts heart function and whether targeting it could help protect patients from cardiac dysfunction.

August 12, 2026

Huang, Wu, Chen lead Cullen portion of DOE’s Genesis Mission on critical minerals exploration

A team at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering will be taking part in a $500,000 research grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies Office that aims to use AI to improve critical mineral mapping and characterization while drilling.

August 12, 2026

History Majors Decipher Scripts to Uncover New Histories of Mexico and Brazil

Isabella Brammer (Class of 2027) and Martín D. Salazar Sánchez (Class of 2027) studied paleography as part of their summer research

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Ying Xu: Finding the Heart of the Matter

Huang, Wu, Chen lead Cullen portion of DOE’s Genesis Mission on critical minerals exploration

History Majors Decipher Scripts to Uncover New Histories of Mexico and Brazil