Scenes Around NSM
Homecoming Tailgate
NSM alumni, faculty and staff celebrated UH at the “Roaring Red” Homecoming Tailgate held before the game against Cincinnati. Fun times in the tent featured wings, beverages, and family friendly activities. NSM co-hosted the tent with the College of Education, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, and the Honors College.
Graduate School Fair Connects with Current Students
All six NSM departments participated in the UH Graduate School Fair providing information to current students on the various master’s and doctoral programs available in NSM. Students learned of application deadlines, how to apply and who in the departments to contact for questions.
exCITE Talks: NSM Students Dominate Final Round
Five NSM undergraduate students competed in the UH exCITE Talks Final Round, with three taking home awards. Students presented a three-minute elevator pitch about a co-curricular learning experience and how it affected their academic and professional development. Honors biomedical sciences major Rosemarie Le won first place. Arushi Dheer, biology major, won third place, and Paul Daniel, biology major, won People’s Choice Award. From left: Danielle Henry, Le, Daniel, Annan Khan and Dheer.
Inside NSM: Observatory
NSM’s Observatory is located on the roof of the Science and Research Building 1. Take a video visit of the Observatory and learn how it is used by the Astronomy Society at UH. The facility is open most Fridays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The main telescope was used recently for viewing the annular eclipse in October.
Inaugural Paul C. W. Chu and May P. Chern Endowed Lecture
Zhifeng Ren, the newly appointed Paul C. W. Chu and May P. Chern Endowed Chair in Condensed Matter Physics, gave the inaugural Paul C. W. Chu and May P. Chern Endowed Lecture. Ren shared his research on world-changing materials and technologies with a focus on energy conversion and the transport, storage, and moving of people and goods at ultrahigh speed. Ren is a professor of physics and director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH. Before the lecture, he received a plaque commemorating the event. From left, Zhifeng Ren, Paul Chu, Kevin Bassler (Physics chair) and May Chern Chu. Read More