UH Alumna Named One of the
World's Most Powerful Women by Fortune
Fortune has ranked UH graduate Hanneke Faber, president of Unilever's division of global food and refreshments, as one of the world's most powerful women. The former Honors College student is leading a health-conscious $23 billion business and has maintained results that mirror pre-pandemic numbers.
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Pharmacy Student Wins ASPET Award College of Pharmacy Ph.D. student Hanan Qasim was honored by a division of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) for her Blue Ribbon-awarded research project presentation on the overexpression of a protein signaling complex that may provide a drug target for treating heart failure resulting from chronic overstimulation. Qasim won the Graduate Student category from ASPET‘s Division of Cardiovascular Pharmacology Trainee Showcase Oral Presentation Competition. |
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Hispanic Studies Doctoral Student Wins Prestigious Grant Valentina Jager, a student pursuing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Spanish with a concentration in Creative Writing and Visual Arts, has been awarded a prestigious grant for emerging artists and writers in Mexico. The grant is awarded by The National Fund for Culture and Arts (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, FONCA), a public agency of the Mexican federal government and the Mexican National Council for Culture and the Arts. |
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Assistant Professor of Geophysics Jiajia Sun will serve as an associate editor for a new section on “Multiphysics and Joint Inversion” that will be introduced in Geophysics, the flagship peer-reviewed journal published by the Society of Exploration Geophysics. |
Exceptional faculty will be recognized this month at two events celebrating those who received a U.S. Patent or a Major Grant Award, were published in a high-impact journal, or received national recognition for creative work. |
Associate Professor of Seismic Imaging Yingcai Zheng has been named a Robert and Margaret Sheriff Professor in Applied Geophysics. The professorship is named after Robert Sheriff, a former UH geophysics professor, and his wife Margaret. The couple donated nearly $2 million to the department. |
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