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Researchers at the University of Houston are using glow-in-the-dark materials to enhance and improve rapid COVID-19 home tests. If you’ve taken an at-home COVID-19 or pregnancy test, then you’ve taken what is scientifically called a…

With artificial intelligence technology expanding, the University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business has partnered with Intel Corp. on a business certification program that prepares students for the emerging field of AI.Artificial…

For the fifth straight season and the 24th time in school history, the #1/1 University of Houston Men's Basketball program will compete in the NCAA Tournament.The Cougars learned they would compete as the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region…

Living in the country, in rural areas, has long been idealized as a pristine place to raise a family. After all, open air and room to run free pose distinct advantages. But new findings from a University of Houston psychology study…

The UH Health Family Care Center at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine has received $1.3 million in federal funds to establish new mental health programs for children, adolescents and families in Houston’s underserved…

When assessing the quality of life of people around the world, economists have primarily focused on comparisons between countries, such as European nations vs. African nations vs. the United States. Metrics like per capita income, life…

Nearly three years into COVID-19 pandemic, the looming threat of yet another highly contagious COVID-19 variant is still very real and palpable. The emergence of a new Omicron subvariant called XBB.1.5 has rapidly become the most dominant…

The online master’s degree programs offered by the University of Houston College of Education have again been ranked among the best in the nation, coming in at No. 10 on the 2023 U.S. News & World Report list.The rankings, released…

University of Houston Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering Ganesh Thakur has been elected as the next vice president, and eventual president, of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST). The…

A new survey from the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston found widespread public support for legislation that would dramatically upend Texas’ longstanding prohibition against most forms of gambling.The support…