A new study by the UH Center for Mexican American Studies examines educational achievement gaps in Houston area public schools and recommends solutions for improvement.
University of Houston engineering students experienced "Color Field" wearing brain imaging devices as an exercise for their neurohumanities class taught by Distinguished Professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, director of The BRAIN Center.
New research demonstrates how the supposed benefits of retracting federal oversight on interstate waters and defaulting that responsibility to individual states failed to account for economic and scientific evidence that said otherwise and violated the bounds of justifiable law.
Astronauts who spend prolonged time alone in space face mental health stressors like loneliness, isolation and more. A University of Houston psychologist developed the Mental Health Checklist, a self-reporting instrument for detecting mental health changes in isolated, confined, extreme environments. She’s reporting results that show significant declines in positive emotions.
Amid the rise in opioid overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic, a University of Houston researcher has joined a team developing a vaccine for Opioid Use Disorder. The vaccine targets fentanyl, a synthetic and very potent opioid, often added into street drugs.
The University of Houston has received a nearly $1.35 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a free, open-access digital portal for anyone to learn about or teach Puerto Rican literature.
Roberto Tejada, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor in English and Art History at UH, has been awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry.
Three pioneers of interdisciplinary arts will showcase their globally acclaimed work at the UH Blaffer Art Museum Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 25. Sponsored by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, the show features new and existing work from (l-r) Shaun Leonardo, Marisa Morán Jahn and Brandon Balengée, who are this year’s CWMCA artists-in-residence.
Living near a hazardous waste or Superfund site could cut your life short by about a year, according to a new study published by a University of Houston engineer. The study is the first nationwide review of all hazardous waste sites and not just the 1,300 sites on the national priority list managed by the federal government.
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