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SOMERVILLE, CURIOSITY, AND LEARNING

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 LOST PATENTS

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.

 

WU TING-FANG IN AMERICA

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.

 

DURABILITY OF WRITING

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 DEATH OF THE FLOPPY DISK

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 DYNAMICS OF VACCINE SCARES

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.

 

MALT BALLS OR M&MS

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.

 

BALTHAZAR-GEORGES SAGE

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.

 

IN THE MUSEUMS

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.

 

IMPACT PRINTERS

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.

 

GEORGE GREEN

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 LONDON EYE

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.

 

MEASURING OUR MACHINES

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 LIFE AND DEATH OF THE AKRON

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.

 

CONSCIOUSNESS

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.

 

DOOLITTLE'S RAID

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.

 

MOBIUS

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.

 

FAIRNESS

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.

 

ETIENNE JULES MAREY

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.

 

INGENUITY LEASHED

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.

 

ANESTHESIA IN 1848

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.

 

A WALK UP-TOWN

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.

 

CAL RODGERS AND VIN FIZ

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.

 

INVENTING THE STREET

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.

 

KILLER-APP

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.

 

SUBMARINES IN 1915

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.

 

ABBAS IBN FIRNAS

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.

 

WHAT'S THE PROBLEM

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.

 

BLOMBOS CAVE

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.

 

GREEN GOLF COURSES

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.

 

UH Moment: "Executive Education Doctorate"

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One size does not fit all, particularly in the case of programs to prepare the next generation of principals, school psychologist or superintendents.  Learn more in this UH Moment.

UH People: Robert McPherson, dean

UH Department: UH College of Education

 

Former Mexican President Speaks at UH

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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox tells a University of Houston audience that building a wall won't solve border problems. As Ed Mayberry reports, he's calling for the legalization of drugs, among other fixes, to help solve Mexico's violence problem.

 

Bin Laden's Death Prompts Heightened Security

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Osama bin Laden has long been regarded as public enemy number one. The news of his death prompted celebrations around the world. But terrorism experts say his killing does not signal an end of the war on terror. Laurie Johnson reports.

UH People: Assistant Professor; Ryan Kennedy

UH Department: political science

 

March for Babies

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One out of seven babies in Texas is born too early. If born too early, they're more likely to die or have disabilities. One nonprofit hopes to change that by raising money for research to help better understand premature births. Pat Hernandez has more.

UH Department: Robertson Stadium

 

The Gateway to Latin America

The Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce met this week at the Hilton University of Houston for its annual International Summit and Business Expo. Andrew Schneider reports.

UH Department: Hilton; University of Houston

 

Mayor Begins Reelection Campaign

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Mayor Annise Parker is kicking off her reelection campaign with a big downtown rally tomorrow afternoon. By many accounts it's been a rocky term so far for the mayor, but experts say much of that hasn’t been her fault. But how will the voters see it? Bill Stamps takes a look.

UH People: professor; Brandon Rottinghouse

 

Bauer Business Focus: Michael Ahearne

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The National Collegiate Sales Competition may lack the high profile of the Final Four, but for would-be salespeople, it has all the career-making potential of the NCAA tournament. The University of Houston Bauer College of Business team took first place at this year’s sales competition. Michael Ahearne heads the school’s Sales Excellence Institute. He joins Andrew Schneider on this week’s “Bauer Business Focus” to discuss the competition, as well as how sports can translate to a career in sales.  

UH People: Michael Ahearne

UH Department: Sales Excellence Institute; Bauer College of Business

 

Disparities in Minority Health

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Today, a luncheon celebrates Minority Cancer Awareness Week at the University of Houston. The focus of the luncheon will be health disparities among minorities. Bill Stamps has more.

UH Department: luncheon; University of Houston MD Anderson Library

 

UH Moment: "CAPS"

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It's hard to be a college student.  There are so many things to worry about, from the friends they keep to the future they want.  But there is an on-campus refuge to help them keep everything in perspective.  It's the topic of this week's UH Moment.

UH People: Norma Ngo, director

UH Department: UH Counseling and Psychological Services

 

Houston Gets Emergency Solar-Powered Generation Units

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The City of Houston is buying 17 mobile solar-powered units from the University of Houston. The containers will be able to power small appliances and devices during emergency situations or widespread power outages. And as Wendy Siegle reports — the inside of the units are fitted-out to be used for offices, storage, and first aid stations.

UH People: Joe Meppelink; director of applied research

UH Department: College of Architecture

 

The Front Row - University of Houston

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We talk with Moores School of Music composer, Rob Smith and University of Houston dance-faculty choreographers, Rebecca Valls and Leslie Scates, about Between the Lines the program of contemporary music and dance that the Moores School's AURA new-music ensemble and the UH Dance Ensemble will debut tonight at the University of Houston's Moores Opera House...

UH People: Rob Smith, Rebecca Valls, Leslie Scates

UH Department: Moores School of Music, Mitchell Center for the Arts, UH school of Theatre and Dance

 

A Space Milestone

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Houston joins the rest of the world in paying tribute to former cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. His 108 minute orbit around the Earth 50 years ago, launched a new era in human history. Pat Hernandez has more.

UH People: Professor; Bill Paloski

 

Composer Daniel Catán Dies Suddenly

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The team behind our daily arts magazine The Front Row mourns the passing of local opera composer Daniel Catán.

UH People: Buck Ross, director

UH Department: UH Moores Opera Center

 

The Front Row - University of Houston

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Mexican-American composer, Daniel Catan, talks about his newest opera, Il Postino, based on the novel and movie about a young Italian mailman who befriends the famed Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. Catan has given his permission for the Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston to present the first U.S. production of Il Postino since its Los Angeles premiere...

UH Department: Moores Opera Center

 

U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Texas Execution

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The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked the first scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate using pentobarbital. Cleve Foster was to have been executed this evening for the 2002 slaying of a Sudanese woman in Fort Worth — the first Texas execution since the state switched to pentobarbital in its lethal three-drug mixture.

UH People: David Dow

UH Department: University of Houston Law Center

 

The Front Row - University of Houston - Downtown

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Space City Gamelan, with flutist Yvonne Kendall, plays traditional Indonesian music for its orchestra of bells, gongs, xylophones and drums, previewing tonight's event of the 2011 Fine Arts Festival at the University of Houston - Downtown...

UH People: Yvonne Kendall

UH Department: UH-Downtown

 

"Talk Text Crash" TxDOT Launches Distracted Driving Campaign

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The Texas Department of Transportation launched its "Talk Text Crash" campaign at the University of Houston today. TxDOT hopes the month-long campaign will raise more awareness about the dangers of distracted driving. As Wendy Siegle reports, students were able to get behind the wheel of a driving simulator to see how easy it is to lose control when sending a text.

UH People: Emil Helfer; graduate student

UH Department: Environmental Engineering

 

UH Moment: "Physician Educators"

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Oncologists sit next to anesthesiologists and rheumatologists.  This Texas Medical Center group has more than health care in common.  Learn more in this week's UH Moment.

UH People: Bernard Robin, professor

UH Department: UH College of Education

 

The Front Row - KUHF Silent Film Concert Series

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Violinist Debra Brown of Two Star Symphony talks about the musical score her band has created for the 1928 Buster Keaton silent-film comedy, Steamboat Bill, J.r. KUHF's Silent Film Concert Series presents Steamboat Bill, with live music by Two-Star Symphony, this evening at Discovery Green Park, downtown...

UH Department: KUHF

 

The Front Row - Blaffer Art Museum

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Belgian artist, Johan Grimonprez, shows us around It's A Poor Sort Of Memory That Only Works Backwards, his exhibition of films and videos that comment on the media, culture, art and politics. They're currently on view at the University of Houston's Blaffer Art Museum...

UH Department: Blaffer Art Museum

 

The Front Row - Ars Lyrica Houston

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Musicologist Matthew Dirst talks about J.S. Bach's Saint John Passion, which Dr. Dirst's early-music ensemble, Ars Lyrica Houston, and the Moores School of Music's Concert Chorale perform twice next weekend...

UH People: Matthew Dirst

UH Department: Moores School Concert Chorale

 

The Front Row - University of Houston

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Members of San Antonio's SOLI Chamber Ensemble perform a movement from Olivier Messiaen's extraordinary Quartet for the End of Time, live in the Geary Performance Studio. They play the entire piece on their recital of contemporary music, this evening at the University of Houston...

UH Department: Moores School of Music

 

The Front Row - University of Houston

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Kiowa Indian craft-artist, Teri Greeves, shows us her bead-work sculptural pieces and wall-hangings that are currently on display in the exhibition, Storied Beads, at the O'Kane Gallery at the University of Houston - Downtown...

UH Department: UH - Downtown/O’Kane Gallery

 

The Front Row - Tuesday Musical Club

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Singers from the Houston Tuesday Musical Club perform excerpts from The Lovely Light, a brand-new piece commissioned for the Club's 100th Birthday! Composer Robert Nelson and librettist Kate Pogue tell about their World Premiere work and Susan Fischman previews the Tuesday Musical Club's Gala Centennial Concert and Party...

UH People: Robert Nelson, Emeritus

UH Department: Moores School of Music

 

Bauer Business Focus: Latha Ramchand

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Civil wars and nuclear disasters on the other side of the world have an instant effect on companies right here in Houston. Latha Ramchand, Interim Dean of the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business, joins Andrew Schneider on this week's "Bauer Business Focus" to talk about risk management, as well as about her vision for the school.

UH People: Latha Ramchand; Interim Dean

UH Department: UH Bauer College of Business

 

UH Moment: "Future"

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What will the future bring?  What would you like?  One University of Houston Professor has a front row seat to the crystal ball.  Listen to UH Moment.

UH People: J.K. Park, professor

UH Department: UH Department of Human Development and Consumer Sciences

 

Bauer Business Focus: Kevin Simon & Glenn Cordúa

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The last few years have shown plenty of industries once thought recession-proof are anything but. Alcohol may be one of the few exceptions. Professors Kevin Simon and Glenn Cordúa of the University of Houston's Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management join Andrew Schneider on this week's "Bauer Business Focus" to talk about alcohol and the industry behind it.

UH People: Kevin Simon, professor; Glenn Cordúa, professor

UH Department: UH Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management

 

UH Moment: "Spinal Cord"

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Mobility is a challenge for spinal cord injured patients. Infection is another. Hear about University of Houston research that is investigating why.

UH People: Adam Thrasher, assistant professor; Richard Simpson, researcher

UH Department: UH Center for Neuromotor and Biomechanics Research in the Texas Medical Center; UH Laboratory of Integrated Physiology

 

The Front Row - Imprint/Brown Reading Series

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We talk with internationally-acclaimed author, Chitra Divakaruni, a member of the faculty of the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program. She reads from her most recent novel, One Amazing Thing, on the next program in Inprint's Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, this evening at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall...

UH People: Chitra Divakaruni

UH Department: Creative Writing

 

Researchers 'Think Small' at UH Lab

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The University of Houston hopes to create more public-private partnerships through a state-of-the-art facility that develops new technology on a very small scale. Gail Delaughter has more.

UH People: Director; Dr. Dmitri Litvinov

UH Department: Nanofabrication Facility

 

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