Breakthrough

Research Reveals Climate Change Helped to Reduce Ozone Levels

Researchers at UH have determined that climate change — in the form of a stronger sea breeze, the result of warmer soil temperatures — contributed to the drop in high-ozone days in the Houston area.

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Student Team Monitors Aurora Borealis

Eleven UH students traveled to Fairbanks, Alaska, to participate in a NASA-funded research project.

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Cheating Amoebas Reveal Key to Successful Societies

Nobody likes a cheater. In a recent study, a UH evolutionary biologist and her collaborators found that while cheaters do not take over populations, they also cannot ever fully be removed.

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Geology Major Named One of Glamour's Top 10 College Women

Her community-based projects, academic prowess and research earned Vanessa Alejandro, a geology major, a spot on Glamour magazine’s “Top 10 College Women of 2015.”

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Computer Science Earns National Designation for Cyber Defense Research

Recent attacks stealing credit card, personnel and medical records have pushed concerns of cyber security and cyber defense to front page news worldwide.

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