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  Youngest UH Master’s Graduate has Passion for Learning

  Lyric Mandell seems like a typical 20-year-old. She loves to watch Netflix, “90-Day Fiancé,” stay up late, play board games with her family and go bike riding with her bird, a caique named Sugar Ann. But there’s something extraordinary about Mandell. This spring, she was the youngest student to earn a graduate degree from the University of Houston – a master’s in mass communication from the Valenti School of Communication.
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  UH Alumnus has a 'Lot’ to Celebrate

  Bryan Washington never strays far from his Houston roots. He grew up here, graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Arts in English and currently teaches in the English department at Rice University. Houston is in his bones, reflected in his debut short story collection of life in Houston, “Lot: Stories.”

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  Two CLASS Faculty Members Receive Moores Professorships

  The University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is pleased to announce that Professor of English Margot Backus, Ph.D. and Professor of History Nancy Beck Young, Ph.D. have received Moores Professorships. The Moores Professors Program was established to honor full-time tenured faculty who have achieved the rank of full professor at the University of Houston and have made outstanding contributions in three key areas: research, scholarship, and/or creative activities; teaching, and service. Recipients of the award are conferred Moores Professor status for a period of five years
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  Pair of Comparative Cultural Studies Professors Receive 2020 Ross M. Lence Awards for Teaching Excellence

  The University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) congratulates Associate Professor Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, Ph.D. and Instructional Associate Professor Luca Oliva, Ph.D. of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, who have received the 2020 Ross M. Lence Awards for Teaching Excellence.

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  CLASS 2020 Distinguished Faculty Award Recipients

  The CLASS Distinguished Faculty Award was established in 2019 by Antonio D. Tillis, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and M.D. Anderson Professor in Hispanic Studies. This award honors senior faculty with internationally recognized bodies of scholarship or creative output. CLASS Distinguished Faculty Award recipients also exhibit the promise of continued excellence.

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  UH Student Selected as 2020 Frederick Douglass Global Fellow

  Hana Mohamad, a University of Houston Honors College student and psychology major, has been selected as a 2020 Frederick Douglass Global Fellow – one of just 10 college students from across the country to receive the prestigious award.
  The fellowship makes study abroad opportunities accessible to students from Minority Serving Institutions and is awarded based on financial need, academic achievement and nominations from university leadership.
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  TRUE TOLL Pandemic Highlights Plight of Female Health Care Workers Torn Between Job and Home Duties

  When it comes to waging war on the COVID-19 virus, those most likely to suit up are women.
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  UH Alumnus Wins Pulitzer Prize

  Jericho Brown, a University of Houston alumnus who received his Ph.D. in creative writing and literature in 2007, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The prize for poetry is given annually to a “distinguished volume of original verse by an American author,” according to the Pulitzer Prize Organization, which announced the 2020 winners on Monday (May 4). Brown was honored for his book The Tradition.
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  UH Survey Examines Challenges, Impact of COVID-19 on Harris County Residents

  The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted people across Houston/Harris County, through its radical transformations of everyone’s work experience and major changes around food access, childcare, education, living arrangements, household dynamics, and relationships, as well as health and mental health. The University of Houston Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality is working to understand how residents are experiencing and dealing with these challenges through the COVID-19 Experience Survey.
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  UH Psychology Professor Rheeda Walker Featured in ‘Call to Unite’

  UH psychology professor Rheeda Walker will share her mental health expertise with the world during a 24-hour global livestream event starting Friday, May 1 at 7 p.m. Central Time. The “Call to Unite” will ask citizens worldwide to celebrate their shared humanity and stand together during the COVID-19 crisis.
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  UH Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic Offering Virtual Therapy

  The University-Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic: A United Way agency has expanded the way it treats patients as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. All sessions are now being conducted remotely to adhere to social distancing guidelines.

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