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Featured Stories • • • Students in the Industrial Design’s program at the UH Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design will exhibit their technology-driven innovations in health care Sunday, March 10 through Wednesday, March 13 at the 2019 South by Southwest Trade Show in Austin. • A University of Houston psychologist is using hypocrisy as a drinking deterrent – having 600 college students - who report heavy drinking - give advice to younger students and post it on a website and then watch, he believes, as the advice-givers, the heavy drinkers, consume less. • Eighteen months ahead of schedule the University of Houston System fundraising campaign, ‘Here, We Go,’ has raised $1.003 billion, surpassing its goal of $1 billion.
The campaign will continue to build on this momentum to go ‘Beyond the Billion.’ • Clostridioides difficile (C-diff), a bacterium that causes diarrhea and colitis, is easily picked up in hospitals, but not so easily fought. After 30 years, the most commonly prescribed antibiotic used to fight it, metronidazole, known commonly by the brand name Flagyl, is no longer as effective as it used to be and a UH pharmaceutical researcher aims to find out why. • Friendly and generous human-to-human interaction is at the core of good hospitality whether at a hotel, restaurant or club. However, what will the hospitality industry look and feel like when human workers are replaced by machines? • It may seem as if Darrel Alejandro Holnes, who received his Bachelor of Arts from the University at just 20 years of age, was destined to receive a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Even before his college career began, he possessed a love for the written and spoken word.
• As mangroves spread across the Gulf Coast, University of Houston researchers find they offer an advantage during storms. But it's not all positive, as there are important consequences for wildlife.
• A philosopher from the University of Houston is leading a multi-continent exploration of the evidence for religious belief and the rationality of religious traditions. • There's a lot at stake during the 86th Texas Legislative Session, both for the University of Houston and public universities across the state.
• The dean of the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, Patricia Belton Oliver, FAIA, has been named one of 2019’s Distinguished Professor Award laureates by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
• The University of Houston has been selected for a national effort to increase diversity among faculty in STEM disciplines. Benning 46393 manual pdf. The Aspire Alliance will build upon efforts already underway at UH, many of them spearheaded by the Center for ADVANCING UH Faculty Success, which was created to increase the number of female faculty members in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. • Two researchers with the University of Houston have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of their contributions to scientific and technological innovation. • The Inter-University Program for Latino Research at the UH Center for Mexican American Studies is joining forces with the city of Houston to host Latino Art Now!
Houston (LAN!). Exhibitions and activities Feb. 1 - May 31 highlight U.S. Latino artists and culture. • LANZA Atelier is an architecture studio founded in 2015 by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo. For LANZA, architecture is a means through which one can contribute to reality and position oneself in the world. The studios work lays emphasis on the beauty of design and production processes, as well as on the role of people involved in them.
LANZA intends to carry out conceptually strong projects with simple formalization and powerful spatialities that are intelligible to all audiences. • S-AR is formally established as a professional firm in 2006. Their work focuses on the design and development of architectural projects of several scales and typologies from private, experimental and social houses to architectural installations, educational buildings and design of furniture and other objects including books and independent publications about architecture. • The UH School of Art welcomes photographer Rafael Soldi to campus. The co-founder of FOUND and Strange Fire Collective, a project dedicated to highlighting work made by women, people of color, and queer and trans artists, will discuss his artistic and curatorial practices. • University of Houstons College of Architecture and Design Theater Wonne Ickx will speak about recent work of PRODUCTORA. • An invitation to a sophisticated Manhattan dinner party proves to be a recipe for disaster.