UH Moment: "Small Things/Big Impact" September 1, 2010 The big picture, for one UH professor, is clearly seen in small things. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Faculty-in-Residence" August 25, 2010 More than 1,100 first-time freshman will fill the new state-of-the-art Cougar Village dormitory at the University of Houston. They will be joined by four other new residents. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Language and Culture Center" August 18, 2010 Talented international students who come to the UH in hopes of pursuing degrees in engineering, law, business, hospitality or other areas usually make room 116 of the Roy Cullen building their first stop on the road to success. They enroll in intensive English proficiency classes at the UH Language and Culture Center (LCC).
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UH Moment: "Creative Works Minor" August 11, 2010 A real understanding of art, in any of its forms, requires more than thoughtful observation. It requires context; an investigation of its connection to the world around it. It requires a study such as the University of Houston Creative Work Minor. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Texas Diesel Testing & Renewable Center" August 4, 2010 Dangerous emissions-belching vehicles have met their match in one University of Houston center. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Theater Arts Master's" July 28, 2010 Graduation comes this summer is for the inaugural group of middle and high school theater teachers who are graduate students in the University of Houston Summer Theater Arts Master's. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "25th Anniversary of Lonesome Dove" July 21, 2010 This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Lonesome Dove. The University of Houston is home to the Larry McMurtry Papers, author of the novel. Find out more in this UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Skype" July 14, 2010 Math class may not have been everyone's favorite class, but one University of Houston group has good feelings about their special delivery of equations and graphs. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Bill Hobby" July 7, 2010 The University of Houston center that conducts impartial research of public policy issues now will bear the name of a giant in the world of public service, media and academics. The UH Center for Public Policy (CPP) is now the Hobby Center for Public Policy in honor of William Hobby.
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UH Moment: "Revolutionary War Letters" June 30, 2010 The stylized handwriting of Gen. George Washington urges readiness for one regiment. In another letter, he describes how to bargain with flour and Indian corn. Still another from Col. William D'Hart to Col. Israel Shreve details a victory in Newtown in 1779. The letters are part of the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections. Learn more in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Green to Go" June 23, 2010 Lunchtime at the University of Houston dining halls comes with a side order of environmentalism. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Student Leadership" June 15, 2010 Leadership is a characteristic students from the University of Houston's Academic Achievers Program (AAP) have spent much of their young lives developing. Learn where leadership has led them in this UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Center for Drug and Social Policy Research" June 9, 2010 Drug abuse impacts Latinos and other ethnic minorities disproportionately in the U.S. Still there is little research, few researchers and even fewer entities to train new researchers to study this growing health problem. One center in the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work is working to change that. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Energy Research" June 2, 2010 Energy transforms economies, labor markets...cities. No place knows that more than Houston. Learn more about energy capitals in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Cougar Concepts" May 26, 2010 Stories of champions always begin with unlikely heroes who rise to the occasion. This one begins with a strong student advertising agency called Cougar Concepts. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "BOUNCE" May 19, 2010 One summer camp at the University of Houston uses fun, food and festivities as tools to combat obesity. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Biotechnology" May 12, 2010 If there is one path to the future, it is made of the cumulative experiences of many. At the University of Houston College of Technology, future scientists come not just from science, but from shared knowledge that includes mathematics, computers and robotics. Learn more in this week's UH Moment.
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| UH Moment: "UH Health Initiative" May 5, 2010 by: Marisa Ramirez Interventions to prevent cancers are only as good as the level of awareness. One UH researcher wants awareness of cervical cancer to be high. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Engineering Cures" April 28, 2010 Cancer treatments carry their own challenges. But thanks to interdisciplinary collaborations, like one between the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering and Methodist Hospital, challenges treating lung cancer may be lessened. Here's this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "UH Forensic Society" April 21, 2010 Words have impact. And for the UH Forensic Society, the power of words is in how they guide others. Listen to UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Nobel Women's Initiative" April 14, 2010 There is strength in numbers. One voice joined with others can forge change The Nobel Women's Initiative, housed in the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work, brings the voices of six Nobel peace prize laureates in support of women around the world.
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UH Moment: "Design for Change" April 6, 2010 How do you bring about meaningful change? Protests? Lobbying? Or can you design the change around you? Find out more in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Jazz at Moores" March 30, 2010 Jazz is a philosophy, an improvisation, a flavor. Jazz is a language taught at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music and spoken by student Henry Darragh. Hear him in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Student Success" March 24, 2010 Meet Krystafer Redden, an ambitious UH sophomore whose plans for his future include being a voice for his fellow Texas undergraduates.
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UH Moment: "Mathematical Biosciences" March 17, 2010 What if you could determine the challenges of important heart research before costly experimental testing? It's a role being filled by mathematics. Learn how in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Applied Research Hub" March 10, 2010 Solar and wind power are part of our energy vernacular. Research at the UH Texas Center for Superconductivity is what's making it work. Learn more in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Women's Studies" March 3, 2010 Women Studies programs aren't just for women and aren't just in the classroom. Find out what's happening with UH's Women's Studies program in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "ExoGlove" February 23, 2010 Inspiration for brilliant technological advances can come from surprising sources. Like the case of two University of Houston undergrads. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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| UH Moment: "Green to Go" February 17, 2010 Lunchtime at the University of Houston dining halls comes with a side order of environmentalism. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Diversity" February 10, 2010 The University of Houston is home to star programs and premier researchers. It is also reflective of the city in which it resides. Learn more in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Space Architecture" February 3, 2010 A bird's-eye view can help you see something clearly, unless you have the perspective on one UH graduate student. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Environmental Chamber" January 27, 2010 Working out can keep you healthy. Working out in extreme hot or cold can work against you. Hear about new research in this UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Moores Opera Center" January 20, 2010 Whether you love it or hate it, opera provokes thought, emotion and commentary. At the University of Houston, opera is a language that teaches as it challenges. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Asthmatic Spaces" January 13, 2010 Solving problems is more than looking for answers. It's looking for new approaches that take advantage of varied skills and perspectives. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Presidential Fellows Program" January 6, 2010 Marie-Theresa Hernández is preparing to move. The professor of world cultures and literatures isn't changing jobs, but she is adding one. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Leland Congressional Interns" December 30, 2009 What are your plans for the New Year? One group of students will learn how to change the world through public service. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "I Witness History" December 23, 2009 How does Ancient History come alive? Through the pen of one UH professor. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Par Excellence" December 16, 2009 Students at the University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management have been "serving up" success—and scholarships—for 25 years. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Digital Library" December 9, 2009 Behind us spans more than 150 years of Houston history. A new resource at the University of Houston makes those years more accessible. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Body Image/Post Partum" December 2, 2009 Identity is at once complex and delicate, susceptible to imbalances particularly when aspiring to an ideal. A University of Houston College of Technology professor examined identity and self esteem as experienced through post partum women. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Bone Research" November 25, 2009 The best way to prevent a bone fracture is to understand how bone becomes susceptible to fractures. Researchers at the University of Houston have created bone to take a closer look at that issue. Learn more in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Astronaut Danny Olivas" November 18, 2009 How do you reach for the stars? You stand on the shoulders of giants. That's how one UH alum did it and it launched him into space. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Elizabeth Rigby" November 11, 2009 A recent study on public responses to health disparities in the U.S. found surprising answers to how the government should address those. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Student Teacher of the Year" October 28, 2009 High School lit class doesn't have to be boring, especially if your teacher is young, energetic and recognized by state and national teachers. And also a product of a UH teacher's program. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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| UH Moment: "Construction Management" October 21, 2009 Creating civilization requires art and science, and at the intersection is a University of Houston program that is growing in scope and necessity. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Concept Visualization Lab" October 14, 2009 Hear how the University of Houston is painting statistics and numbers with moving, color images. It's in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Hospitality Industry Archives" October 7, 2009 If you want a biography of hotelier Conrad Hilton, you can check out a library book or do a Google search and find an acceptable timeline of his life. But if you want to know about his accent, where his cowboy hat is or the advertising budgets for his hotels, then you go see Professor Mark Young. Here's this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "American Humanics" September 30, 2009 Students preparing to lead a nonprofit organization get an added credential and an edge with one University of Houston program. Find out more in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Visiting Scholar of Mexican American Art" September 23rd, 2009 Mexican American art is more than exhibits brought out during Hispanic Heritage Month. The painters and muralists played an important role in developing modern art. Learn more in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Hurricanes" September 16, 2009 Researchers at the University of Houston are studying how salt and heat affect hurricanes. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Air Quality" September 9, 2009 If you want to study the air, you've got to get off the ground and up on the roof. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Center for Drug and Social Policy Research" September 2, 2009 How do you generate research in an area where there is little? One University of Houston program grows its own researchers. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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| UH Moment: "Houston History Magazine" August 26, 2009 We are surrounded by history as it unfolds. One University of Houston magazine captures it. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Honors College" August 19, 2009 There is a longtime debate about the value of a liberal arts education versus a pre-professional degree. One University of Houston college lives happily in both. Here's this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Slip/Fall Research" August 12, 2009 The most common cause of emergency room visits is fall injuries. One UH professor wants to help prevent further injuries by examining how we slip and fall. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Fred Parks Boardroom" August 5, 2009 Pour out the wine without restraint or stay. The University of Houston's Fred Parks Boardroom encourages toasting and touring. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Brain Wave Cap" July 29, 2009 This is your brain. This is your brain when it's speaking. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Graduate Space Degree" July 22, 2009 In the year that we celebrate the 40th anniversary of man's first landing on the moon, UH unveils a new path for students looking to reach the stars. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Smartphones" July 15, 2009 For those caring for elderly parents, peace of mind is hard to come by. And, for their parents, dignity is hard to retain. But a team of researcher from the University of Houston College of Technology aims to ease concerns. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Moores School of Music Concert Chorale" July 8, 2009 Houston, Texas and the United States are taking Wales by storm—all in the form of the University of Houston's Moores School of Music Concert Chorale. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Graduate Design/Build Studio" July 1, 2009 For 20 years, students with the University of Houston's Graduate Design Build Studio have been spending their summers building structures for area non profit organizations. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Texas Music Festival" June 24, 2009 The annual Texas Music Festival, which entertains thousands of music lovers every summer, is celebrating its 20th anniversary at the University of Houston Moores School of Music. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Crime and Voting" June 15, 2009 A new collection of essays co-edited by a University of Houston political science professor examines how the United States and other countries address current and ex-prisoners and the right to vote. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Soros Poetry Fellowship" June 10, 2009 Poetry can be the voice of those who can't speak or cannot be heard. It is the instrument one University of Houston student uses to speak about undocumented immigrants. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Antarctic Research" May 3, 2009 What is the relationship between global climate and the melting of polar ice? One University of Houston researcher is working to provide answers to that question. Here's this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Public Art" May 27, 2009 It's been a University of Houston tradition and commitment for more than 40 years. Find out more in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "GEMI" May 18, 2009 How do you prepare students for professions in the Energy industry? You bring the energy industry to them. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Visionary" May 12, 2009 For some, seeing clearer is not a matter of glasses and contact lenses. For those with rare eye defects, the options are few, uncomfortable and not ideal. Listen how UH Optometry research is working to make clearer vision and a better quality of life.
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UH Moment: "Mexican American Engineers and Scientists" May 6, 2009 Albert Einstein said engineers create that which never was. For students with the UH College of Engineering group Mexican American Engineers and Scientists, what they created were possibilities. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Pop Music" April 29, 2009 Pop music may be the soundtrack to our lives, but is it also the history of our lives? Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Pay It Forward" April 22, 2009 How do you express gratitude for the success in your professional life, especially when that success comes through the help of someone else? You pay it forward. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Abiola Initiatives in Music Ed" April 16, 2009 The power of music is far reaching. One program at the University of Houston makes sure that reach extends to the youngest in our communities. Here's this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Walk 'n Play" Wednesday, April 8, 2009 Cool gadgets and games have a way of making even the most arduous tasks fun. One University of Houston professor harnesses that fun for a serious project. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Bauer College MBA Program" Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Artists, poets, engineers and athletes may need the same thing to be successful—an MBA. They all share the same classroom space at the University of Houston Bauer College of Business. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Laboratory of Integrated Physiology" March 25, 2009 New research and new collaboration are the goals for the University of Houston's department of health and human performance as its Laboratory of Integrated Physiology expands to the National Center for Human Performance in the Texas Medical Center. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Cholera" March 18, 2009 Cholera is not a disease we think about, though in some parts of the world its touch is never far away. One UH researcher is working on an antitoxin to control it. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "College of Education" March 11, 2009 Students are frustrated by the Catch-22 that presents itself when job hunting—they need experience before they get the job, but can't find a job to get that experience. Doctoral and master's level students at UH are getting both at a critical time in their profession. Here's this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Creative Writing Program" Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Poetry is a disciplined form, a structured expression, an entertainment and a consolation. A student from the University of Houston's prestigious Creative Writing Program has been honored for his poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Jazz Fest" Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Academics is more than books. Learning is more than researching. For some students at the University of Houston, music is the school master. Listen to today's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture" Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Living and working in extreme environments like space, the ocean or the North Pole, require precise planning and execution—and the University of Houston's Space Architecture Program is doing that with industry partners and students. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Hot Rocks" Wednesday, February 11, 2009 How is a new idea born? Does it jump fully formed from its creator's head? Does it speak to us in a dream? Or does quietly remind that it's been waiting patiently to be discovered? Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Green Building Components" February 3, 2009 Green grows from the ground up and needs more than recycled cans and paper. The University of Houston's Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture's Green Building Components is where industry meets sustainability. Here's this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Special Collections" Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Your research might come alive if George Washington actually read his letters to you or if you could feel and smell the parchment paper of the 15th century manuscript you're studying. Hear about UH Special Collections in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Future Studies" Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Forecasting the weather can be tricky business. Forecasting the future is even more so. A graduate program at the University of Houston teaches just that without the benefit of magic and tea leaves. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Cougar Green" Wednesday, January 14, 2009 The University of Houston's colors may be red and white, but UH is showing how easy it is to be green. It's this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Center for Public Policy" Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Houston is a microcosm of the world. Researchers at the University of Houston's Center for Public Policy find what happens here is an indication of what may happen across the country or around the world. Hear about it in this UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Arté Publico" Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Archeologists dig to locate hidden treasures that reveal information about our past. Similarly, Arté Publico, a Latino publishing company housed at the University of Houston, digs around the world for lost Latino literature that reveals information about the history and culture of Latinos. Tune in to this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Student Success/Jessica Zhou" Wednesday, December 24, 2008 Her nimble fingers glide across the piano keys, peacefully and effortlessly giving melody to sheets of notes. Jessica Zhou found her life's work at the University of Houston. Hear about her in this UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Center for Mexican American Studies" Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Immigration research. Sociology. Mariachi music? The University of Houston Center for Mexican American Studies promotes faculty and research in many areas of Latino culture. Hear about it in this UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "UH School of Theatre and Dance" Wednesday, December 10, 2008 American educator, critic and author Robert Brustein said "The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent." That's especially true at the University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance, where talent is not only served, it's nurtured. Hear about it in this UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "UH Hilton College/Nathan Jarvis" Wednesday, December 3, 2008 There is art and skill to properly welcoming the guest, and one young man has become a hospitality expert by taking advantage of opportunities. Learn more in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "teachHouston" Wednesday. November 24, 2008 It's really the hardest job there is. Teaching. And increasingly qualified middle and high school math and science teachers are harder and harder to find, placing U.S. students further and further behind their international counterparts. Learn of one strategy to resolve the crisis in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "UH-SURF/Ronnie Turner" Wednesday, November 19, 2008 "Research" may have a scholarly sound to it, but undergraduates at the University of Houston can dip their toe into it as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. One student's path led to a treasure trove of Houston history. Hear about it in today's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston" November 12, 2008 Tiny and tucked away on the campus of the University of Houston, the Blaffer Gallery has hosted artists big and small; famous and infamous. Hear about it in the UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "President Renu Khator and the Tier One Status" Wednesday, November 5, 2008 The University of Houston System may be preparing to officially install Dr. Renu Khator as its Chancellor and UH President, but the work towards an ambitious goal for UH has already begun. Listen for more in this week's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "UH Center for Public History" Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Each Houston creates another page of history. With every headline we hear, another chapter is written. The University of Houston Center for Public History has been a steward of that history — chronicling, researching and teaching. Hear about it in today's UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Heart Research" Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Patients on transplant lists to receive donor hearts can spend the rest of their lives waiting. Research at the University of Houston, in partnership with the Texas Medical Center, could yield a life-saving bridge to such a transplant. Find out more in today's UH Moment. Pictured left: UH Professors Matthew Franchek and Ralph Metcalfe hold a device similar to the less costly, smaller, pulse-less, artificial heart they are teaming with area medical experts to create. (photo credit Tom Shea)
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UH Moment: "Earthquake Fault Lines" Wednesday, October 15, 2008 You may feel steady on your feet, but research from a UH geology professor found more than 300 fault lines around the Bayou City. Hear about it in UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Veterans History Project" Wednesday, October 8, 2008 You may not know their names, but UH Veterans Services Office believes you should be familiar with their stories. The group is collecting the stories of war veterans as part of the Veterans History Project. Hear about it in UH Moment.
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UH Moment: "Virtual Reality" Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Virtual reality isn't just for video games. Researchers at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work are using the technology to asses and treat those with addictions and phobias. Hear about it on UH Moment.
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