Faculty Recognition & Honors
Albert Cheng (Computer Science) has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
Paige Evans (teachHOUSTON, Mathematics), Donna Stokes (Physics) and Rakesh Verma (Computer Science), along with co-authors from other UH colleges and other universities, received the Narrative Research Award from the American Educational Research Association’s SIG on Narrative Research. The award, given at AERA’s annual meeting in Toronto, was for their paper “The embodied nature of narrative knowledge: A cross-study analysis of embodied knowledge in teaching, learning, and life,” which published in the Teaching and Teacher Education Journal.
Dan Graur (Biology & Biochemistry) received the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2018-2019. He received his Ph.D. in Population Genetics in 1985, and his advisor was Masatoshi Nei, Ph.D. The award was presented at the GSBS Commencement Ceremony on May 18.
Arthur Weglein (Physics) has been invited to serve as keynote speaker at a Society of Exploration Geophysicists-Kuwait Oil Company workshop. Entitled “Seismic Multiples – The Challenges and The Way Forward,” the workshop will be held December 3-5 in Kuwait. This invitation marks Weglein’s third keynote address for an international petroleum industry research and business conference in the past 18 months.
Key Publications
Vassiliy Lubchenko and Ho Yin Chan (Chemistry) recently published “A mechanism for reversible mesoscopic aggregation in liquid solutions” in Nature Communications. The article was also included in the Editors’ Highlights webpage of recent research on Inorganic, Nanoscale and Physical Chemistry. In the paper, the authors report a mechanism by which mesoscopic clusters can nucleate and ripen, requiring that the solute form long-lived complexes, with implications for biologically and industrially relevant systems.