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- 2025
- 12/19/25 NSM Celebrates 677 Graduates at Spring 2025 Commencement
- 12/08/25 Global Impact: University of Houston Researchers Again Named to Prestigious Highly Cited List
- 12/04/25 DOE Early Career Award Backs UH Physicist’s Quest to Map Extreme Nuclear Matter
- 12/01/25 Mini Das Named 2026 Optica Fellow
- 11/26/25 UH Researchers Unveil X-Ray Breakthrough That Captures 3 Image-Contrast Types in a Single Shot
- 11/20/25 UH Physics Students Earn Top Honors for Research at Regional APS Meeting
- 11/11/25 NASA Funds UH Study to Uncover Jupiter’s Hidden Energy Balance
- 10/27/25 Graduate Students Showcase Cutting-Edge Research at NSM’s Three-Minute Thesis Competition
- 10/24/25 UH Researchers Help Break Thermal Conductivity Barrier with Boron Arsenide Discovery
- 08/26/25 From NSM to Barton College: Russell’s Journey of Innovation and Leadership
- 07/15/25 UH Physics Professor Reimagines Seismic Exploration
- 06/09/25 New Dean Named for College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- 05/05/25 Prize Winners Announced at 60th TCSUH Student Research Symposium
- 04/29/25 UH Students Explore the Edge of Space Through NASA’s USIP Program
- 04/10/25 UH NSM Physicists Receive 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
- 04/03/25 NSM Professor’s World-Changing Nuclear Physics Research Fueled by $2.5 Million in Funding
- 02/25/25 UH Researchers Paving the Way for New Era in Medical Imaging
- 02/10/25 UH Physicists Hit Major Milestone in Advancing Superconductor Applications
- 01/28/25 White House Recognizes UH’s Donna Stokes for Excellence in STEM Mentoring
- 01/28/25 SACNAS Wins Outstanding Chapter for Leadership in Science Award at National Conference
- 2024
- 12/19/24 University of Houston Scientists Solving Meteorological Mysteries on Mars
- 12/06/24 Physics Doctoral Students Receive the Lydia Mendoza Fellowship
- 12/02/24 Physics Ph.D. Student Challenges Peers to Think Globally for a Just Energy Transition
- 11/11/24 UH Physics Professor Among First-Ever Big 12 Conference Faculty of the Year Award Winners
- 10/29/24 Seeking Answers about the State of Matter
- 10/22/24 Recent Ph.D. Graduate Xin Shi Wins 2024 Outstanding Student Researcher Award
- 10/03/24 Byron Freelon Named Fulbright Scholar for Work in Brazil
- 08/14/24 UH Researchers Unveil Groundbreaking Technique in X-Ray Imaging
- 07/18/24 Ren Receives ITS Outstanding Achievement in Thermoelectrics Award
- 07/18/24 Xin Shi Receives Goldsmid Award for Excellence in Research in Thermoelectrics by a Graduate Student
- 07/15/24 Physics Coordinates First Houston “Pint of Science” Event
- 06/18/24 UH Scientists Discover Massive Energy Imbalance on Saturn
- 05/31/24 Physicist to Collaborate with NASA to Gain Better Understanding of Neutron Stars
- 05/29/24 Four Physics Ph.D. Students Receive Scholarships from Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH
- 05/24/24 Caleb Broodo Selected for DOE Graduate Student Research Program
- 05/16/24 A Powerful Tool Speeds Success in Achieving Highly Efficient Thermoelectric Materials
- 05/12/24 Physics Ph.D. Graduate Xin Shi Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 05/03/24 Three Physics Students Place at 59th TcSUH Student Research Symposium
- 04/29/24 University of Houston Hydride Research Pushes Frontiers of Practical, Accessible Superconductivity
- 04/29/24 Unraveling Mysteries of the Atmosphere: Physics Students Manage Experiments at Auroral Research Program
- 04/26/24 Zhifeng Ren Receives UH’s Farfel Award
- 04/05/24 Outreach: Hong Kong Scouts Visit UH Observatory
- 02/23/24 Physics Ph.D. Student Earns Department of Energy Fellowship at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- 01/02/24 Weglein Invited as Keynote Speaker at Global Congress on Physics and Its Applications
- 2023
- 11/29/23 UH Physicists Secure $1.5 Million to Study Particles that Could Solve Mysteries of the Universe
- 11/20/23 Students Peer into the Future of Technology at the Inaugural UH Quantum Computing Fall Fest
- 11/17/23 Inaugural Paul C. W. Chu and May P. Chern Endowed Lecture Given by Zhifeng Ren
- 11/15/23 Repeat! Physicists Ren and Chen on List of Researchers Named Most Cited in the World
- 11/14/23 UH Physicist, Wife, Make $1.4M Gift for Advancement of Scientific Research and Education
- 08/15/23 Physics Graduate Student Uses Fellowship to Explore the Future of Technology Through Magnets
- 08/01/23 UH Physics Participates in Polar Aeronomy and Radio Science Summer School
- 07/19/23 UH Students Examine Climate, Environmental Changes Through Experiments in Alaska
- 07/13/23 Weglein Invited as Keynote Speaker for SEG/Kuwait Oil Company Three-Day Workshop
- 07/11/23 NSM Mourns the Passing of Roy Weinstein, Physics Professor Emeritus and Former Dean
- 06/29/23 Prediction of Supersymmetry on a Tabletop
- 06/01/23 Sharing the Friendliness of Physics at the University of Houston
- 05/10/23 Inside NSM: Observatory
- 05/03/23 Two Physics Graduate Students Win Third Prize at TcSUH Student Research Symposium
- 05/01/23 Silver Nanoparticles Spark Key Advance in Thermoelectricity for Power Generation
- 04/24/23 Using Superconductors to Move People, Cargo and Energy Through One Combined System
- 04/20/23 Zhifeng Ren Elected 2023 MRS Fellow, Honored with Materials Science Leader Award
- 01/31/23 UH Scientist Eric Bittner Elected as AAAS Fellow
- 2022
- 12/20/22 Weglein Presents Keynote at 2022 SEG Qingdao International Conference on Seismic Imaging
- 12/15/22 Physics World Cites UH Research Among Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2022
- 11/21/22 Recent Ph.D. Graduate Awarded Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantum Computing
- 11/17/22 Physicists Ren and Chen on List of Researchers Named Most Cited in the World
- 11/15/22 Physics Student Earns Graduate Fellowship from UH Center for Mexican American and Latino/a Studies
- 10/11/22 American Physical Society Awards Carlos R. Ordonez with Edward A. Bouchet Award
- 09/26/22 New UH Mentoring Scholarship Program Aims to Fill Future Demand for STEM Jobs
- 09/08/22 New Catalyst Offers a More Affordable Way to Produce Hydrogen from Seawater
- 07/21/22 Researchers Report Major Advance in Semiconductor Materials
- 05/26/22 Bittner Named Ulam Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 05/24/22 Fourteen Undergraduates Conduct Physics and Geoscience Experiments in Alaska
- 05/16/22 Buildup of Solar Heat Likely Contributes to Mars’ Dust Storms, Researchers Find
- 05/10/22 Physics Ph.D. Student Awarded Fellowship at Berkeley Lab
- 05/04/22 UH Researchers Make Inroads in Converting Seawater to Green Hydrogen
- 04/27/22 TcSUH’s Di Chen Elected to Executive Committee of American Nuclear Society’s Accelerator Applications Division
- 04/26/22 Specially Sourced Argon May Soon Whisper Secrets About Universe’s Dark Matter
- 04/20/22 Weglein to Present the Keynote Address at 2022 SEG Post-Conference Workshop
- 03/09/22 Working to Revolutionize the Way We Live
- 01/07/22 Jamie M. Karthein Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 01/07/22 Mini Das Named SPIE Fellow
- 2021
- 12/07/21 Ignatiev Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
- 12/02/21 Three UH Professors Named Highly Cited Researchers for 2021
- 11/18/21 Physics Associate Professor Studies Giant Planets’ Weather with New Funding
- 10/20/21 Photo Story: Keeping an Eye on ALICE
- 10/15/21 American Physical Society Names Ratti as 2021 APS Fellow
- 10/11/21 Fulbright, NSF Awards Physics Ph.D.
- 09/21/21 UH Joins International Project to Develop History-Making Software for Scientists
- 08/04/21 New Research Hub Aims to Uncover the Innermost Secrets of Neutron Stars
- 07/08/21 The Pressure Is Off and High Temperature Superconductivity Remains
- 06/24/21 UH Hosts Two-Year Pilot Program for Minority Physics Students
- 06/03/21 Renshaw Wins Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
- 05/25/21 Physics Junior Selected as 2021 Barry Goldwater Scholar
- 04/28/21 Work Ethic Leads to Success On, Off Court for UH’s Broodo
- 04/23/21 UH’s Zero-Emissions Enhanced Oil Recovery Nanotechnology Scales Up for Commercial Production
- 04/19/21 NSF Awards Physics Ph.D. Student Graduate Research Fellowship
- 04/08/21 Wei-Kan Chu’s 40-Year Teaching Career Honored with Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
- 03/24/21 UH Facilities Using New Technology Developed by UH Physicist to Fight COVID-19
- 03/18/21 Understanding How Electrons ‘Dance’ in Topological Semimetals
- 03/15/21 Physics and Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor Named Scialog Fellow
- 02/22/21 In Memoriam: Professor Donald J. Kouri
- 01/28/21 New Catalyst Moves Seawater Desalination, Hydrogen Production Closer to Commercialization
- 01/14/21 Researching the Smallest Properties of Nuclear Particles
- 01/07/21 Cosmological Mysteries - UH Physicists are Asking Big Questions about the Universe
- 2020
- 12/21/20 University of Houston Receives Licensing Executive Society’s 2020 Deal of Distinction in CEEM Sector
- 12/07/20 Researchers Call for Renewed Focus on Thermoelectric Cooling
- 11/24/20 Time to Rethink Predicting Pandemic Infection Rates?
- 10/20/20 Seamus Curran Named Finalist in MassChallenge Competition
- 09/29/20 Nanotech Filter Coating Offers Promise Against COVID-19
- 09/11/20 Weglein Invited to be Closing Speaker at SEG-Dhahran Geophysical Society Workshop
- 09/10/20 Inexpensive, Non-Toxic Nanofluid Could Be a Game-Changer for Oil Recovery
- 08/17/20 Weglein Co-Authored Textbook, “Seismic Imaging and Inversion,” Being Translated into Chinese
- 08/06/20 Recent Physics Graduate Named Marcus L. Urann Fellow by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
- 07/31/20 Physics Professors Receive Butler Excellence in Teaching Award
- 07/14/20 Next-Gen Micro-CT Scan Can Lower Radiation, Offer Better Pictures
- 07/07/20 Researchers Create Air Filter that Can Kill the Coronavirus
- 06/25/20 International Collaboration Brings Us One Step Closer to Understanding Mysteries of the Universe
- 05/29/20 Two Physics Majors Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- 05/26/20 UH Addresses Shortage of Computer Science, Technology and Physics Teachers
- 05/07/20 International Group of Physicists and Engineers Design FDA-Approved, Open-Source Ventilator
- 04/29/20 Making a ‘Strange’ Discovery
- 04/16/20 UH Alumna’s Path to Coveted Medical Physics Ph.D. Program
- 04/14/20 Discovery Offers New Avenue for Next-Generation Data Storage
- 04/01/20 Breakthroughs in Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity of Boron Arsenide Crystals
- 03/31/20 Improving Protection
- 03/17/20 Seamus Curran Honored with Silicon Valley 50 Award
- 03/05/20 Researchers Find Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity in Isotopically Pure Cubic Boron Nitride
- 03/04/20 New Material Could Turn Clothing into a Health Monitor
- 01/23/20 Physicist Chosen as Scialog Fellow
- 01/08/20 UH Physicists Advance Knowledge in Ultracold Atoms
- 2019
- 12/03/19 UH Physicist Named to National Academy of Inventors
- 12/03/19 A Study of Saturn’s Largest Moon May Offer Insights for Earth
- 11/11/19 New Catalyst Efficiently Produces Hydrogen from Seawater
- 10/24/19 Low Frequency Seismic Prototype to Expand Seismic Capability
- 10/22/19 Finding Communities: Physics Researchers Develop Complex Network Algorithm
- 10/07/19 UH Hosts Social Decisions Workshop
- 09/19/19 Das Lab’s Work Highlighted in Nature Reviews Article
- 09/06/19 Increased Seismic Effectiveness, Efficiency and Impact
- 09/05/19 Using Nature to Produce a Revolutionary Optical Material
- 08/28/19 NSM Professors Receive American Educational Research Association Award
- 07/18/19 New Low-Cost Thermoelectric Material Works at Room Temperature
- 06/21/19 Researchers Report New Understanding of Thermoelectric Materials
- 06/18/19 Pushing the Bounds of Memory
- 05/28/19 Women in Physics: UH One of 21 U.S. Physics Programs Awarding 30 Percent or More of Its PhDs to Women
- 05/22/19 Weglein to Present Keynote Address at SEG-Kuwait Oil Company Workshop
- 05/13/19 COF-1 as a 2-D Material with Promising Applications
- 04/30/19 Two Physics Undergrads Receive Goldwater Scholarships
- 04/08/19 In Memoriam: George Reiter
- 04/02/19 Physics Student Wins Best Graduate Student Presentation Award
- 01/30/19 Physics Department Receives APS Undergraduate Education Award
- 01/25/19 New Method Yields Higher Transition Temperature in Superconducting Materials
- 01/17/19 New Thermoelectric Material Delivers Record Performance
- 2018
- 12/21/18 Daugulis and Ren Recognized for Influential Work
- 11/13/18 UH Physicist Zhifeng Ren Receives Humboldt Prize
- 10/29/18 Understanding the Sun: The Borexino Collaboration
- 10/26/18 Weglein’s Journey in Fundamental High Impact Seismic Research
- 10/16/18 Student Research: Searching for Signs of Life in the Upper Atmosphere
- 10/11/18 UH Physicists Play Role in International Neutrino Experiment Milestone
- 10/08/18 NASA Grant Funds Research on Saturn’s Strong Winds
- 09/14/18 Jupiter’s Energy: A New Understanding of the Giant Planet
- 09/05/18 Texas Center for Superconductivity Announces New Leadership
- 08/24/18 Weglein to Present Keynote Address at SEG/KOC Workshop
- 08/08/18 Adlakha, Physics Ph.D. Student, Earns AAUW Fellowship
- 07/23/18 Weglein to Give SEG Post-Convention Workshop Keynote
- 07/13/18 The Strong Nuclear Force: Understanding Quark-Gluon Plasma
- 07/05/18 Researchers Upend Conventional Wisdom on Thermal Conductivity
- 06/29/18 UH Researchers Report Novel Hybrid Catalyst to Split Water
- 06/19/18 UH Nanotech Startup Enters the ‘Green’ Energy Market
- 05/25/18 New Seismic Processing and Acquisition Research Projects
- 05/15/18 Protein Dynamics: How Crowding Affects Functionality
- 05/07/18 The Early Universe: Understanding Quark-Gluon Plasma
- 04/26/18 UH Team Selected as Inaugural PhysTEC Fellows
- 04/26/18 Three Physics Faculty Honored at UH Faculty Excellence Awards Dinner
- 04/16/18 CPH Lecture Series: The Long-Term Prospects of Science
- 03/28/18 Festschrift in Honor of Physics’ Wei-Kan Chu
- 03/15/18 Special Lecture Event: The Jazz of Physics on April 19
- 03/15/18 UH Scientists Investigating Mysterious Dark Matter
- 2017
- 12/01/17 Weglein Selected as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Seismic Exploration
- 10/17/17 Physics Graduate Student Spends Month at CERN
- 10/05/17 CPH Lecture Series: Opening a New Window onto the Cosmos
- 09/18/17 New Approach Boosts Performance in Thermoelectric Materials
- 09/05/17 NSF CAREER Award Advances Work in Fundamental Physics
- 08/15/17 UH Physics and Astronomy Society to Host Solar Eclipse Viewing
- 08/07/17 Breaking Ground on a New Era of Particle Physics
- 07/21/17 M-OSRP Holds Annual Technical Review
- 06/19/17 Calcium Signaling in Learning and Memory
- 06/01/17 UH-Based Nanotech Business Expands Nationally
- 05/15/17 UH Researchers Report New, More Efficient Catalyst for Water Splitting
- 05/02/17 Ph.D. Student Wins Quark Matter 2017 Poster Contest
- 04/25/17 A Tiny Droplet of the Early Universe?
- 04/18/17 Das' NSF CAREER Award Targets Advanced Microscopy Techniques
- 04/05/17 In Memoriam: Kwong Lau
- 03/15/17 UH Physicist Launches a New Journal for Materials Science
- 03/10/17 Student Project Selected for NASA High-Altitude Flight
- 01/24/17 Researchers Report New Understanding of Global Warming
- 2016
- 12/12/16 NSF Grant Funds Scholarships for NSM Students
- 11/14/16 Researchers Report New Thermoelectric Material with High Power Factor
- 10/31/16 Physicists Induce Superconductivity in Non-Superconducting Materials
- 10/26/16 Learning by Doing: Inquiry-Based Physics Course for Student Success
- 10/24/16 UH's Arthur Weglein Receives SEG's Highest Honor – Maurice Ewing Medal
- 10/12/16 High School Physics Teachers Get Hands-On Lessons to Share with Students
- 09/30/16 Researchers Report Advance in Low-Cost Clean Energy Generation
- 09/27/16 Mini Das Receives $1 Million Breakthrough Award from Department of Defense
- 09/19/16 Researchers Discover More Efficient Way to Split Water, Produce Hydrogen
- 08/23/16 New Surgical Option for Breast Cancer Comes to US
- 07/19/16 UH Physicist Joins Project to Develop New High Thermal Conducting Material
- 07/06/16 Researchers Report Record Performance for Bismuth-based Zintl Material
- 06/27/16 UH Researchers Discover a New Method to Boost Oil Recovery
- 06/22/16 UH Moment: Commercialized Research
- 05/27/16 UH Physicist Honored for Groundbreaking Approach to Seismology
- 05/18/16 Physics Alumna Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- 05/12/16 UH Nanotech Spinoff Reaches Commercial Milestone
- 04/22/16 Reiter Part of ORNL Research Team Discovering New State of Water Molecule
- 04/18/16 UH Physicists Discover Flaws in Superconductor Theory
- 03/21/16 $324,000 NSF Grant Awarded to Physics' Kevin E. Bassler
- 02/18/16 Most Precise Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum Reveals Intriguing Surprise
- 01/29/16 Uncovering the Climate of Jupiter, Saturn and Its Largest Moon
- 01/25/16 Ph.D. Student Receives Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship
- 01/19/16 Ph.D. Student Fabio Zegarra Receives Travel Award from Biophysical Society
- 01/15/16 Continuing the Search for Better Energy Materials
- 2015
- 12/16/15 Whitehead Receives Inaugural NSM Junior Faculty Research Award
- 10/16/15 Ph.D. Student Receives HAMBP Fellowship to Study Calcium Signaling in Neurons
- 09/22/15 NSF Grant Funds Purchase of New High-Performance Computer
- 09/22/15 UH Researchers Create Fatigue-free, Stretchable Conductor
- 09/14/15 Best Precision Yet for Neutrino Measurements at Daya Bay
- 08/04/15 Summer Institute Benefits High School Physics Teachers
- 06/23/15 UH Spinoff Recognized for Improving Breast Cancer Diagnostics
- 06/23/15 New Formula Expected to Spur Advances in Clean Energy Generation
- 06/08/15 UH Researchers Search for New, More Efficient Materials
- 06/03/15 Bassler and Su Named American Physical Society Fellows
- 04/10/15 Students Monitor the Aurora Borealis
- 03/05/15 Top 10 Physics Breakthrough: Detection of Neutrinos from Reaction that Powers Sun
- 03/04/15 UH Researchers Discover New Material to Produce Clean Energy
- 2014
- 11/10/14 Radiation Monitors Tested on Space Station Pave Way for Future Missions
- 10/16/14 UH to Receive IEEE Milestone Award on Nov. 17
- 10/14/14 UH Physicist Shuo Chen Awarded Welch Professorship
- 10/06/14 Bering Recognized in AIAA's Momentum Member Spotlight
- 08/25/14 Examining Effects of Cellular Environment on Protein Structure and Folding Dynamics
- 08/08/14 Chu, Selvamanickam Honored at Superconductivity Conference
- 08/08/14 Physics' Varghese and Paulose on 2014 Highly Cited Researchers List
- 07/17/14 UH Researchers Create New Method to Draw Molecules from Live Cells
- 05/27/14 Bassler Named as Moores Professor
- 05/15/14 UH Physicists Look for Answers to Questions about the Universe
- 05/15/14 Program Brings Students from Developing Nations to UH for Physics Ph.D.
- 05/07/14 Discovery Creates a Better Chance for Clean Energy Research
- 03/28/14 Physics Majors Receive Goldwater Scholarship and Goldwater Honorable Mention
- 03/25/14 Ignatiev Presents at 10th Anniversary of the Kazakhstan National Center for Space Research
- 03/06/14 Whitehead Named APS Woman Physicist of the Month for March
- 03/05/14 New Therapies Targeting Cancer, Alzheimer’s Goal of UH Physicist
- 02/19/14 In Memoriam - Professor James R. Benbrook
- 01/28/14 UH Researchers Create New Flexible, Transparent Conductor
- 01/02/14 Cheung Named 2013 American Physical Society Fellow
- 2013
- 12/10/13 Ignatiev Joins International Academic Advisory Board of Russia's Tomsk State University
- 12/10/13 UH Physicist Honored as Rising Star in Texas Research
- 11/14/13 Company Co-Founded by UH Researcher Wins Nanomedicine Award
- 10/10/13 C-Voltaics Wins Goradia Innovation Prize
- 09/05/13 Research Creates New Opportunities from Waste Heat
- 09/03/13 University of Houston Launches First Nanotech Company
- 08/30/13 UH Technology Licensed to C-Voltaics wins Special Edition COMS Young Technology Award
- 08/26/13 New Results from Daya Bay: Tracking the Disappearance of Ghostlike Neutrinos
- 08/14/13 New Book: Stochastic Calculus and Differential Equations for Physics and Finance
- 08/13/13 Book Covers Application of Linear Inverse Theory
- 08/01/13 New UH Stem Center for Professional Learning Takes Aim at State, National Crisis
- 01/29/13 Paul Chu Honored by National Academy of Inventors
- 2012
- 12/03/12 NSF Gives UH $985K Grant to Boost Science Education in Houston
- 09/06/12 DarkSide 50 Project Takes Dark-Matter Detection to New Levels
- 08/13/12 UH Physics Researcher Develops Nanoparticle Coating for Solar Panels
- 07/11/12 Forrest Honored with NSM Teaching Award
- 07/09/12 CAM Students Receive Awards at International Conference on Photovoltaics
- 05/22/12 UH Physicist One of 68 Promising Researchers Selected in Nation
- 05/01/12 Profs. Hungerford and Cheung honored with UH Awards
- 04/03/12 Two Physics Students Receive Prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
- 03/28/12 Physics Major Mason Biamonte Named as a 2012 Goldwater Scholar
- 02/13/12 Book Covers Application of Linear Inverse Theory
- 01/24/12 UH Physicist John Miller on Collective Quantum Tunneling of CDW Electrons
- 01/03/12 UH Physicist Receives $1.6 Million NIH Grant