A University of Houston professor and her research team are seeking to improve the lives and education of bilingual children across the country through their research on developmental language disorder. Anny Castilla-Earls, professor of...
Deadlines are part and parcel of modern knowledge work. Journalists must serve their weekly columns, managers must turn in their monthly reports, and researchers must submit their papers and proposals on time. Despite their...
For many of the groundbreaking discoveries at the University of Houston, there has been a superpower quietly running behind the scenes. Over the past four years, the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute (HPE...
For years, parents have been told technology is unhealthy for children. The American Academy of Pediatrics previously recommended no more than two hours of screen time a day for children and absolutely no screen...
A research team led by the University of Houston has developed a vaccine targeting the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl that could block its ability to enter the brain, thus eliminating the drug’s “high.” The...
It is almost impossible to imagine the long-term psychological problems faced by the over 16 million orphans and vulnerable children in the global society, difficult to conceptualize their sense of loss and sadness. One...
Researchers at the University of Houston have received a $1.7 million grant to investigate the unique challenges adolescent immigrant students face when entering U.S. schools for the first time, and to develop reading interventions...
Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, approximately 20,000 Syrian refugees have resettled in the United States, with an estimated 130 families resettling in Houston. Prior to their resettlement, most Syrian refugees reported...
The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) has named University of Houston associate professor of physics and biomedical engineering Mini Das as a Fellow. Fifty-eight SPIE members were named Fellows in 2022, joining more than 1,600...
Check out this invited blog post from Inside IES Research by Drs. David Francis and Jeremy Miciak, investigators at the Center for Success of ELs, an IES funded National Research and Development Center based...
