*University of Houston Scholarship Report 2006-2007

University of Houston

University of Houston

Total Students ~ 35,000(5000 Graduate Students)

System Wide > 50,000

Total Faculty ~900

Academic Ranking of World Universities

in 2006: 259/500

Other schools in these rankings are:

the universities of Notre Dame, Oregon, Missouri, RPI, and George

Washington

Art Museum & Solo Shows

Art Commissions – 329

Design Awards – 27

Published Music – 46

International and National Music

Performances – 1,034

Theatre Performance & Dir. – 223

Published Books – 507

Refereed Articles – 4,918

Chapters in Edited Books – 946

Conference Presentations – 5,316

Invited Presentations – 5,258

Scholarly activity summary: 2001-2005*

Overview

Arts & Human Enrichment

Bio-Med Sciences & Engineering

Community Advancement& Education

Nano-Materials

Architecture – modified structure for community interface

Cluster strategic hire in Structural Biology & infectious disease offer

Positioning urban university to address its major issues

Counter-offer retained David Francis

to lead neurocognitive cluster

Energy & Natural Resources

Strategic Energy Alliance led by Lane Sloan;

Lone Star Wind Alliance

Cluster strategic hire: Shay Curran

the Light Institute

Complex Systems/ Space Exploration

Atomic and molecular synthesis

Structural biology

Biomedical/neurological

Computational biology and molecular design

Clean room, characterization, and drug and device development

■ Offering flexible terms on industrial research and intellectual property development (full corporate ownership, co-ownership, or UH sole ownership);

■ Focusing on early partnerships with industry for sponsored research and evolve UH into an extension of our commercial partners’ research environments;

■ Enhancing basic research with applied research; and

■ Establishing long-term R&D relationships with existing and new industrial partners.

Increase the Research Base at UH

ANEURYSM PREDICTION & STENT DESIGN

BIO-MED SCIENCES: Bioimaging – Medical Diagnostics & Application

Design

ANEURYSM PREDICTIONVASCULAR THROMBOSIS

IN THE PRESENCES OF STENOSIS

COMPUTATIONAL

HEALTH DIAGNOSTICS

Stent Design for Aortic Abdominal Aneurysm (AAA) Experimental nonsurgical procedure: - developed for high-risk patients - performed using catheterization Tissue engineered stents for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) angioplasty

We are working with The Methodist Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital on medical diagnostics such as aneurysm prediction as well as applications design for stents to be used in these situations.

COMPUTATIONAL BIOIMAGING:CARDIOLOGY

filtering& textureanalysis

MicroCT

slices

After 3-D DAF

before

slices throughcoronary

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+ +

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Post-stress-

-Rest

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-Stress

QRS ST-Ta

stress

post

rest Group-mean spatio-temporal distribution of Bz for depolarization and repolarization stages measured by multichannel SQUID at rest, during physical exercise and post exercise in clinical patients without evidence of CAD

New screening method to diagnose coronary artery disease in adults – filtering with

wavelets: means to quantify anomalous character of tissue.

BIO-MED SCIENCES:Bioimaging - Cardiology

BIO-MED SCIENCES:Bioimaging – Ultrasound Imaging

ULTRASOUND IMAGING

via computational models

NOVEL BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS using nano-size magnetic biomarkers

Standard Ultrasound uses time stamps to calculate geometric properties of an artery.

This works using system-identification techniques to recover the mass-spring-damper models.

From these models, mechanical properties of the artery can be calculated.

ADVANCING CLEANFOSSIL FUELS

ADVANCING CLEANFOSSIL FUELS

DRIVING RENEWABLE

S & ALTERNATIV

ES

DRIVING RENEWABLE

S & ALTERNATIV

ES

PROMOTINGCONSERVATI

ON & ENVIRONME

NTAL SUSTAINABIL

ITY

PROMOTINGCONSERVATI

ON & ENVIRONME

NTAL SUSTAINABIL

ITY

LEADINGSYSTEMS

INTEGRATION

LEADINGSYSTEMS

INTEGRATION

Strategic Thrusts

Strategic Thrusts

11

Opportunity -- global leadership, capital of renewables■ Now largest wind-energy producer in the nation

■ 2nd largest land wind resource potential in U.S. (after N.D.)

■ Opportunity for massive influx of wind industry infrastructure (major part of estimated $80 billion/year nationwide by 2020)

■ 50 to 100 times more potential energy than biomass, the only reasonable energy

■ And is economically feasible today = $.05/kwhr

■ New equipment installation $23 billion/year with windmill reaching 2-5 megawatts/tower and blades reaching 40-60 meters. Eventually, blades will reach 100 meters and perhaps 10mw/tower-offshore.

Collaboration & Organization■ GLO, SECO and UH collaborated to capture leadership opportunity & create economic development support system

■ Formed Lone Star Wind Alliance, led by UH

BY THE NUMBERS

45 percent/year growth in Texas from 1999 to 2007

30 percent/year growth in the U.S. on average

1,013 MW under construction in 2007

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;

it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”

▬ THOMAS PAINE

Although they represent very different facets of science, both healthy cardiovascular and energy supply systems are important to our lives. It is vital that we focus, both together and separately, on these two systems and overcome the impediments to success in these realms.