Academics & Research
Business program top in nation
The audience rejoiced as the Bauer College of Business and the Greater Houston Partnership announced that the school’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program has been ranked first in the nation by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur...
University opens materials research library
This fall, the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture opened the doors of the Materials Research Collaborative, which is an outlet of Material Connexion, a database that has physical collection libraries in only eight...
Cougars profit from relaxation
Starting next spring, students in the spa management program will be learning how to turn wellness into profit. The program is a specialized area students can study at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel...
Undergraduate researches learning
A UH education senior spent her summer researching the learning abilities of mentally disabled children by assessing their reading and pronunciation skills. The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship is a 10-week research program that’s aimed at...
Prof helps spinal injury with stem cell treatment
A procedure to help eliminate the need for major surgery for patients with spinal cord injuries is being developed by a research group that includes two UH engineering professors. The treatment, which involves injecting a...
University survey finds petroleum engineering most popular at UH
A recent survey found that students at UH are much more inclined to enter the petroleum industry than the national average. In February, undergraduate students at UH were contacted by Universum USA Inc. as part...
Official reporting day serves as last chance to drop classes
Today is the last day that students may drop a course without receiving a W (withdrawals) for the course. Any courses dropped after today will be marked with a W on the student’s record, with...
To click or not to click
Professor Long S. Le learned a major lesson about students and ethics, thanks to the use of clicker response systems or classroom clickers in his courses. Le, who also serves as the Director of International...
Scientists testing new treatment techniques
A research team at UH Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling are helping in the fight against breast and colon cancer by seeking out estrogen characteristics hormones that could be used as a...
High schoolers get head start on UH classes
Brayan Garza appreciates a good game of number crunching. Seeing the value in earning college credit while in high school, the accounting freshman successfully completed courses in calculus, statistics and government. His efforts paid off as...