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The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
Bauer Business Focus: Janet Meade
Next Tuesday, April 17, is the deadline for filing federal tax returns. Janet Meade teaches accountancy and taxation at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business. She joins Andrew Schneider for this week's Bauer Business Focus to talk about changes to tax reporting, as well as the prospects for tax reform.
UH People: Janet Meade
UH Department: UH Bauer College of Business
UH Moment: "Cultural Connections"
How would you describe American culture? It's a question being considered in one UH program. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
UH People: Merlin Jacob, freshman biology major, Tier One Scholar, Culture Guide
UH Department: UH Language and Culture Center
Moores Opera Center - Der Rosenkavalier (video)
We hear the famous “Presentation of the Rose” Scene and the Final Trio from the opera, Der Rosenkavalier, performed by singers from a new production of Richard Strauss’s popular romantic comedy, to be presented this weekend at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music.
UH People: Buck Ross, director & producer; Ashley Neumann, soprano; Julia Engel, soprano; Mary Brooke Quarles, mezzo-soprano; and Cynthia Clayton, soprano; Katherine Burkwall-Ciscon, pianist
UH Department: UH Moores Opera Center
Now Hiring Positions For New Soccer Stadium
BBVA Compass Stadium — home of the Houston Dynamo and Texas Southern University football — will hold its inaugural job fair on Saturday. They're looking to hire a seasonal staff to help kick off the building's grand opening events.
UH Department: University of Houston-Downtown, Special Events Center
Media Hype And Lotto Fantasies Drive Non-Players To Snap Up Tickets
Sales of tickets for tomorrow's Mega Millions drawing could top $30 million in Texas. That's more than ten times the amount sold in a typical week. And that likely means there are a lot of people snapping up tickets who wouldn't give your run-of-the-mill lotto drawing a second thought.
UH People: Clayton Neighbors; director of the social psychology program
UH Department: UH Psychology
If you aspire to become a researcher, learning the skills is necessary. If you aspire to be the best researcher, learning them early and from the best is essential. Here's this week's UH Moment.
UH People: Mat Bosch, chemistry major; Angela Moeller, assistant professor; Nichole Richardson, psychology major; Zhiwen Xiao, assistant professor; Stuart Long, professor
UH Department: UH Honors College; UH Jack J. Valenti School of Communications; UH Department of Chemistry
Bauer Business Focus: Sam Henry
The University of Houston's Global Energy Management Institute is holding its eighth annual energy trading conference today. The focus of this year's conference is the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on energy trading. Sam Henry, president and CEO of IPR-GDF Suez Energy Marketing North America, will be one of the lead speakers.
UH Department: UH Bauer College of Business
Composer Joelle Zigman, Soprano Angela Schmidt & Artist Lydia Smith
Joelle Zigman and Angela Schmidt are The Front Row's two production interns, who are both accomplished musicians in their own right. Before they graduate at the end of the semester, we say “Thank You” for their service by highlighting a project in which they are currently involved. Ms. Zigman's Senior Recital as a composition student at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music will feature her Sapphic song-cycle, which will be sung by her fellow intern, soprano Angela Schmidt. The concert is presented alongside the opening of an exhibition by Rice visual artist, Lydia Smith. We hear music by Ms. Zigman and chat with all three artists.
UH People: Angela Schmidt, soprano & Master's Degree Candidate
UH Department: UH Moores School of Music
What does "Spring Break" conjure up for you? It's much different for a special group of UH students. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
UH People: Courtney Reynolds, student
UH Department: UH Graduate School of Social Work; Center for Leadership; Fraternity and Sorority Student Life
Two Years Later, Study Examines Recovered Area From Oil Spill Damage
Two years after the accident, the BP oil spill continues to affect insects that thrive on coastal salt marshes. A University of Houston biologist examines the results from this ecosystem.
UH People: biology professor Steve Pennings; UH graduate student Brittany McCall
UH Department: UH Biology
Bauer Business Focus: Kinder Baumgardner
Kinder Baumgardner has helped design cities and city neighborhoods from Vancouver to the Middle East. He's called Houston home for the past seven years and considers it the best city he's ever lived in. Baumgardner heads the Houston office of the landscape-architecture firm SWA Group.
UH Department: UH Bauer College of Business
What It Means For Texas Not To Be A Part Of Super Tuesday
Texas should have been one of the states holding primaries and caucuses on Super Tuesday. But the protracted battle over congressional redistricting maps pushed our primary to late may. David Pitman takes a look at what sort of impact Texas would have had, if it had been able to stick to the original schedule.
UH People: associate professor; Brandon Rottinghaus
UH Department: UH political science
What Gas Prices Will Make You Put Down Your Keys?
Gas prices have climbed steadily over the past month — leading some to wonder if they will hit the $4 per gallon mark. Even though a gallon in Texas is cheaper than most other states, drivers here are still feeling the pinch.
UH People: Rae Serra; student; marketing professor Jackie Kacen
UH Department: UH Marketing
Houston Caravan To Protest Tuscon's Removal Of Hispanic History Books From Classrooms
One week from today, a caravan of protesters will set off from Houston to Tuscon. The group is upset over Tucson's recent decision to end its Mexican-American studies program. Tucson's program used books published at the University of Houston.
UH People: Nicolas Kanellos; Brown Foundation professor
UH Department: UH's Arte' Publico Press; UH Hispanic Literature
Calling Attention To Strides Treating County Inmates Mental Problems
The Harris County Jail is the largest public provider for care for the mentally ill in Texas. It costs more to treat a mentally ill person in jail than it does in community clinic settings. But strides are being made to create public awareness of the problem.
UH Department: UH Graduate College of Social Work
Bauer Business Focus: Saleha Khumawala
The Clinton Global Initiative University holds its annual conference in Washington D.C. from March 30th through April 1st. Four students from the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business will attend to discuss their work on microfinance projects. Saleha Khumawala teaches microfinance at the Bauer College. She joins Andrew Schneider on this week's Bauer Business Focus.
UH People: Saleha Khumawala, associate professor
UH Department: UH Bauer College of Business
Add this occupation to the list of hazardous jobs: musician. This week's UH Moment explains.
UH People: Angela Robertson, post-doctoral fellow
UH Department: Center for Neuromotor and Biomechanics Research
Moores School of Music - The Amadeus Project
Moores School of Music faculty artists, Timothy Hester and Alan Austin, talk about The Amadeus Project! It's a two-day music festival that culminates in a concert tonight in the Moores Opera House, featuring three of Mozart's Piano Concertos performed by Mr. Hester on a 1795 forte-piano, along with an orchestra made up of some of the nation’s best early musicians.
UH People: Timothy Hester, Professor & Pianist; Alan Austin Austin, Director of Special Projects & Violinist
UH Department: UH Moores School of Music
Moores School of Music Jazz Festival - Seamus Blake
New York-based tenor saxophonist, Seamus Blake, shares tracks from his albums and talks about his featured performance tomorrow night on the 14th Annual Moores School of Music Jazz Festival at the University of Houston.
UH Department: UH Moores School of Music
Tech and UH Qualify for Tier-One Prize Money
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in a recent letter, announced that Texas Tech University and the University of Houston are the first institutions eligible for money from the state's tier-one award fund.
A decade-long case settles the question of whether Texas landowners own the groundwater under their property.
UH People: Professor; Jacqueline Weaver
UH Department: UH Law
AURA Contemporary Music Ensemble - Topography
Members of the Moores School of Music’s AURA Contemporary Music Ensemble give us the Worldwide Broadcast Première of Shifting Landscape, a Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano by Bayou City composer, George Heathco [pictured]. That piece will be featured on AURA’s concert, Topography, tonight at the University of Houston.
UH People: Laura Sofka, flute; Jamey Kollar, marimba; Jennifer Dennison, clarinet; Laura Cividino, violin; and Geraldine Ong, piano; George Heathco, composer and alumnus; Rob Smith, Associate Professor
UH Department: UH Moores School of Music
Classical 91.7-Arte Público Author of the Month: Luis Valdez
Luis Valdez has been selected as this month's Classical 91.7/Arte Público Press Author of the Month. In the next installment of a series of monthly features, Classical 91.7's Eric Ladau spoke with Mr. Valdez.
UH Department: Arte Publico Press
We eat when we're hungry. We stop when we're full. Or at least that's the way it's supposed to work. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
UH People: Tracey Ledoux, Assistant Professor
UH Department: UH Department of Health and Human Performance
A New Way To Watch Your Teen In Their Car, Good Parenting Or Overprotecting?
Nearly 1,000 16-year-old's die every year from fatal car crashes. In fact, at age 16 kids are five times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than any other age group. One organization is working to lower that number by allowing parents to track their teens driving habits — but is this going one step too far?
UH People: Nicholas Hong; freshman student
How do you create a systemic change in science education? One STEP at a time. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
UH People: Wallace Dominey, professor; Andrew Kapral, program director
UH Department: College of Education; STEP Program
NASA Budget Cuts 'Moving In Wrong Direction'
President Barack Obama unveils his budget for 2013. The $3.8 trillion spending plan seeks to pump billions of dollars into the economy, but at a cost to various programs, like NASA. Two experts on the space agency weigh in on those reductions.
UH People: Dr Alex Ignatiev
UH Department: The Center for Advanced Materials
Judges May Decide Fate Of Texas Primaries
A three judge panel in San Antonio has to decide whether an April third primary in Texas is still possible, as both sides in the long-running redistricting battle harden their positions.
UH People: Professor; Dr. Richard Murray
UH Department: UH Political Science
Bauer Business Focus: Partha Krishnamurthy
Texas' presidential primary date is still up in the air, but commercials for the GOP candidates are already on local television. Partha Krishnamurthy teaches marketing at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business. He joins Andrew Schneider on this week's Bauer Business Focus to talk about political advertising in the 2012 presidential campaign.
UH People: Partha Krishnamurthy; associate professor of marketing
UH Department: UH Bauer College of Business
Gulf Coast Reading Series - Liz Countryman & Thea Lim
We chat with poet Liz Countryman and fiction-writer Thea Lim [pictured], both graduate students in the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program. They and poet Sam Amadon are this month's featured writers, who'll share their work on Friday night at Brazos Bookstore, presented by the Gulf Coast Reading Series.
UH People: Liz Countryman, graduate student; Thea Lim, graduate student
UH Department: UH English Department, Creative Writing Program