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Update on 89th Legislative Session and Changing Landscape of College Sports
The 89th Texas Legislative session ended its session with many pieces of legislation directly impacting public colleges and universities. While these bills await final approval, I want to provide you ...
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Research Provides Insight into How Multifocal Contacts Help Fight Myopia
A @UHouston optometry professor, who pioneered wearing multifocal lenses to slow myopia in children, is reporting the ...
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UH Office of Technology Transfer and Innovation Expands Team to Boost Faculty Support and Drive Impact
The University of Houston’s Office of Technology Transfer and Innovation has expanded its leadership team to strengthen support for faculty innovation and increase societal impact. With new directors ...
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Tools and Techniques for Optical Character Recognition
When we began to develop training courses for the Digital Humanities Core, we focused on the processes required to create sustainable digital scholarship.We spent less time on the tools and techniques ...
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UH Researchers Find That Females with Flexible Personalities have Fewer Eating Disorders
June 26, 2025. University of Houston Named “Best Value College” for 2025 by The Princeton Review. The University of Houston has once again been recognized as one of the nation’s best colleges for ...
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Dean's List - University of Houston
The Dean's List, a tabulation of the names of all undergraduate honor students, is compiled each semester. To qualify for this recognition in CLASS, students must earn a 3.50 minimum grade point ...
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UH Receives $1.1M Gift for Biomedical Engineering Research
The University of Houston has received a generous $1.1 million gift from the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation to advance potentially life-changing research on Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic ...
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University of Houston’s Institute for Ecological Resilience Names First-Ever Executive Director - University of Houston
The University of Houston has named award-winning conservationist Jaime González as the first-ever executive director of the UH Institute for Ecological Resilience, effective May 1. The role is a ...
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UH Students Explore the Edge of Space Through NASA’s USIP Program
April 29, 2025. Multidisciplinary Student Teams Design and Launch Earth and Space Science Experiments in NASA-Supported Program. Undergraduate students at the University of Houston are reaching for ...
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Sylvester Turner, U.S. Congressman, Former Houston Mayor and
Sylvester Turner, a University of Houston alumnus and former mayor of Houston who was elected to Congress last year, died Tuesday night. He was 70 years old. “I am deeply saddened by the sudden ...
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UH Researchers Paving the Way for New Era in Medical Imaging
Mini Das, Moores professor at UH’s Cullen College of Engineering and College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. New technology developed by researchers at the University of Houston could ...