UHCL creates expert advisory board
June 02, 2016 | Kelsie Cleboski
University of Houston-Clear Lake’s School of Science and Computer Engineering has founded a new advisory board of local professionals from science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, industries. Members of the board will provide guidance as the school develops new curriculum, programs and labs with a focus on keeping university coursework relevant and up-to-date.
UHCL online environmental science program nationally ranked
March 29, 2016 | Kelsie Cleboski
Nonprofit Colleges Online ranked University of Houston-Clear Lake seventh in affordability among 35 online environmental science master’s degree programs nationwide.
STEM competition aims to inspire students
March 21, 2016 | Kelsie Cleboski
High school and college students interested in science, technology, engineering or math will join forces and compete at the 2016 STEM Challenge 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., April 9, at University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2700 Bay Area Blvd., Houston.
UHCL welcomed to partnership with national STEM-centered coalition
March 15, 2016 | Jean Rudnicki
University of Houston-Clear Lake School of Education has been welcomed into partnership with the 100Kin10 coalition, which comprises more than 280 corporations, foundations, museums, non-profits, school districts and other universities committed to delivering 100,000 new science, technology, engineering and mathematics or STEM educators by 2021.
University robotics team preps for NASA competition
February 25, 2016 | Kelsie Cleboski
In the big dream of space exploration, it pays to think small. A joint team of University of Houston-Clear Lake and San Jacinto College students are preparing to compete in a national NASA robotics contest that relies on insect colony behavior to solve tricky problems.
‘Birth of Gravitational Wave Astronomy’ presented at UH-Clear Lake
February 17, 2016 | Kelsie Cleboski
Physicists have worked for decades toward the observation of gravitational waves announced last week by LIGO or the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Scientific Collaboration. Learn about the details and importance of this work when LIGO scientist Marco Diaz presents “The First Detection: The Birth of Gravitational Wave Astronomy” 7 p.m., Feb. 29, at University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Student Services and Classroom Building lecture hall as part of the UH-Clear Lake Physics and Space Science Seminar Series.