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The naysayers and detractors of online gaming and its ill effects on youth might need to stand down. That’s what science is telling us in a new report in the journal Human Resource Development International from Melika…
Old Stereotypes of Online Gaming Upended by New Report from Cullen professor
With funding from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL), the Biotechnology program at the Cullen College of Engineering's Technology Division will be hosting students from colleges and…
UH Biotechnology to host NIIMBL eXperience @ UH 2025
Earlier this spring, representatives of the Technology Division’s digital media program and CougAR Lab, including associate professor of digital media Tony Liao, Ph.D., connected with Sugar Land’s own Class AAA baseball team, the…
Digital Media Wows the Space Cowboys at Constellation Field Tech Night
Jamaan Alanazi, a Technology Project Management graduate student, came to the University of Houston to study project management in 2022 after bouncing between home and abroad due to the initial COVID-19 outbreaks. His experiences…
Tech Division’s Alanazi Excels in TPM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has chosen a University of Houston project as one of 12 nationwide aimed at improving soil health and productivity through innovative tools and…
Doing the Dirty Work: UH Part of $7.9M Initiative to Promote Soil Health and Tackle Climate Change
In a collaborative project between the Harris County Office of County Administration’s Sustainability Office and the University of Houston, researchers, county staff and the Harris County energy management team within the…
ECE Faculty Partner with Harris County on Vision for Sustainable Energy Future
Professor of mechanical engineering technology Francisco C. Robles Hernández, Ph.D., has been awarded $307,275 of a total $624,936 grant by the National Science Foundation to investigate potential methods of increasing…
Tech Division's Robles Hernández is Supercharging Superconductors with NSF Award
Collaborative Team Develops Custom Molds with $2.7M NIH Grant Professor Fatima Merchant, department chair of engineering technology at the University of Houston, is part of a multi-institutional research team designing patient-…
Next-Level Breast Reconstruction After Cancer
Assistant professor of human resource development Melika Shirmohammadi, Ph.D., was recognized earlier this summer with the Reviewer of the Year award from Human Relations, a prominent academic journal. This award is given in…
HRD's Shirmohammadi Recognized as Reviewer of the Year by Journal "Human Relations"
Professor of mechanical engineering technology Francisco C Robles Hernández, Ph.D., has been awarded $187,914 by the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to investigate a novel method of…
Tech Division's Robles Hernández Aims to Reduce Train Derailments with FRA Funding
SCLT student, Supply-Chain Industrial Distribution Organization (SIDO) vice president, and recent ITMA Scholarship recipient Jenifer Mendoza reflects on her experience as a buyer intern with CITGO -- from the ways the Cullen…
Internship Q&A with SCLT Undergraduate Jenifer Mendoza
Supply Chain and Logistics Technology master's degree student Suhaib Kaissi is breaking down the boundaries between student, academic, and industry professional while keeping a keen eye focused on the future. "I am from Iraq, but…
Master's Student, TA, Industry Professional: SCLT's Kaissi Offers Sound Return on Investment
Instructional associate professor of digital media Monika Alters has been awarded the 2024 Hartman/Dennis Service to Education Award by the Graphic Communications Education Association (GCEA), of which she has been a member for…
Digital Media Professor Alters Receives GCEA Service to Education Award
Nine Executive Master’s in Human Resource Development (HRD) students recently returned from a global learning experience in Prague, Czechia (known widely in English as the Czech Republic). This week-long engagement provides a…
9 HRD students complete program in Czech Republic
The University of Houston's cloudathon@UH – an annual competitive team opportunity for students to showcase their cloud-based architecture, configurations and operations skills – reached new heights this spring as registration…
Winners crowned at the 2024 cloudathon@UH
Technology Project Management graduate student Revati Sangle was recently awarded the Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Accreditation Center's 2024 Chapter Student Club Scholarship. This award recognizes Sangle's active…
TPM Student Awarded by Project Management Institute
Unlocking Potential Venkatesh Balan sees a climate hero in an unlikely little creature: microalgae that have proven remarkably effective at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In the Microbiome and Genomics Lab at the…
Tech Division's Balan unlocking potential of microalgae with research
Four Technology Division students were recently awarded scholarships by local professional organization International Transport Management Association (ITMA) Houston. "This particular scholarship is special to me as I was a…
Four TD students nab ITMA scholarships
The Technology Division's associate professor of biotechnology Venkatesh Balan, Ph.D., was recently selected to participate in the 2024 U.S. Department of Agriculture Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) E. Kika De La Garza…
TD's Balan tabbed for Fellowship program
Consuelo Waight, Ph.D., professor of executive human resource development (HRD), has been appointed to the Fulbright Specialist Roster as of April 2024, marking her third lifetime engagement with the Fulbright Program to date.…
HRD's Waight earns 3rd Fulbright designation

News Stories Published Before March 1, 2023

Prior to March 1, 2023, the College of Technology was a stand alone college within the University of Houston system. This college has merged with the Cullen College of Engineering and is now the Technology Division at the Cullen College of Engineering.
Earlier this month, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher took the time to return home to Texas' Seventh Congressional District and the greater Houston area for several days of…
The first thing you should know about futurists is that we don’t practice futurism. “Futurism,” as Wikipedia can tell you, refers to a 20th-century, Fascist-Party-adjacent…
Prominent entrepreneur and University of Houston Distinguished Alumnus Brij Agrawal and his wife, Sunita, have pledged $1 million to fund manufacturing laboratory equipment at the…
A new student organization encourages members to be innovative as they fold in leadership and academic learning into practice. The Technology and Innovation Leaders of…
Sugar Land, TX – Student interns from the University of Houston College of Technology’s Leadership and Innovation Management Program are impressing City of Sugar Land…
Over a six-week period during the summer of 2022, twelve high school teachers participated in a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) site program hosted by the College of…
The DesignYou Code Camps for students are one-week academic camps for students entering grades six through eight in fall 2022. Sponsored by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC)…
The University of Houston (UH) College of Technology biotechnology department hosted 29 high school students for Pathway to University Programs on June 13-15 to…
In collaboration with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Academy, the computer information systems (CIS) program at the College of Technology is the first university program to…
First-generation college students frequently have a more challenging experience acclimating to college than students whose parents have college degrees, but a University of…