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  First Study of Its Kind Links Moms’ Problems to Adolescent Attachment

  It should come as no great surprise that mothers have profound influence on their children. But what about mothers who have their own personality disorder symptoms, such as problems getting along with others? New research finds, for the first time, that maternal personality disorder symptoms impact their adolescent children who subsequently show a higher likelihood of insecure attachment.

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  UH Researchers Awarded $1.7M to Examine Academic Outcomes for Adolescent Immigrant Youth

  Researchers at the University of Houston have received a $1.7 million grant to investigate the unique challenges adolescent immigrant students face when entering U.S. schools for the first time, and to develop reading interventions to accelerate their literacy.

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  UH Professors awarded $768K NIH grant to develop extensive neuromotor training

  The UH College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Department of Health and Human Performance Assistant Professor Pranav J. Parikh and Cullen College of Engineering Professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal have been awarded the NIH R25 Research Education grant titled “Neuromotor Skill Advancement for Post-baccalaureates (NSAP).”

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  CLASS Scholars Awarded National Sumners Scholarship

  Two College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences students were recently named 2022 Sumners Scholars. Selected from students nationwide, Cai Wilson and Ola Dafaalla were two of only 43 students to receive the award for the 2022-23 academic year.

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  Tara T. Green joins CLASS as founding chair of African American Studies Department

  Effective Aug. 1, Tara T. Green begins her tenure as the founding chair and CLASS distinguished professor of the department of African American studies at the University of Houston. This historic appointment is the latest in a series of major developments for the program, which launched a large scholarship endowment and earned departmental status soon after marking its 50th anniversary.

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  Feminist Scholar Rachel Afi Quinn Awarded Esteemed Schomburg Fellowship

  College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Associate Professor Rachel Afi Quinn, Ph.D., has received the esteemed Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship. Passionate about Black art and film, Quinn was selected as one of seven long-term fellows to spend the upcoming academic year researching at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.

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