November 2009 Archives

November 23-27, 2009

• Physicist receives $2.8m grant, returns to UH full time
• Engineering professor honored with international symposium
• UH researcher offers extreme solar makeover
• Student wins first place in design competition for work published in the Daily Cougar
• Underserved community aided by funds to bilingual students

November 16-20, 2009

• UH researcher offers extreme solar makeover
• Underserved community aided by funds to bilingual students
• New super lawyers list ranks law center no. 34
• Energy chairman & ceo speaks to business students
• Researchers work to turn algae into crude oil
• Regents approve renovations to Moody Dining Hall
• Energy improvements to Farish Hall and Agnes Arnold Hall result in savings
  

November 9-13, 2009

• Khator discusses tier one, university's goals in address
• UH Alcohol Prevention Program earns national honors
• Law center honors Khator with ‘Arrival Award’ for immigrant achievement
• Engineers part of new Doe center focused on plasma science
• UH SBDC celebrates 25th anniversary
• President's fall address set for Nov. 11
• Researchers earn inventor award for pre-transplant drug
• Barton Smith symposium discusses realities of economic recovery
• UH foreclosure study looks at behavioral reasons
• UH football coach Kevin Sumlin, quarterback Case Keenum earn honors

November 2-6, 2009

• Michelle Obama presents Blaffer with Presidential Award for outreach
• Professors diagnose sleep apnea using noncontact method
• UH Sociologist explores sex discrimination at law firms
• Bauer leadership students mentor at-risk high school students
• Bucking national trend, UH strengthens geoscience field programs
• Hilton College begins $15 million renovation
• Former astronaut Tom Jones to deliver asteroids lecture
• UH foreclosure study looks at behavioral reasons
• Josephine Meckseper returns to blaffer on Nov. 12 for artist’s talk, video screening
• Cooperative Ph.D. program in Spanish receives $297,000 grant