UHCL's Master of Arts in Teaching offers career-changers a great option
April 09, 2018 | UHCL Staff
Changing careers after a few years in a certain field isn’t easy, but it’s possible. Monster.com, a global job-searching website, reports that 59 percent of working adults say they’re interested in pursuing a different career and would like to make the leap. If you’re among them and your career aspiration happens to be teaching, University of Houston-Clear Lake’s College of Education is offering a new Master of Arts in Teaching degree, open to students in fall 2018.
UHCL students share the art of deliberative dialogue to gain peacemaking, diplomacy skills
April 06, 2018 | UHCL Staff
In a democracy, decisions should be made by ordinary citizens who discuss and evaluate issues. But often, said University of Houston-Clear Lake Assistant Professor of Political Science Se-Hyoung Yi, conversations about public issues devolve into debates or arguments, in which one side claims to know the answers to the issue and simply wants to win. “That’s why we train students in deliberative dialogue, so that they can moderate difficult topics that are key to contemporary democracy,” he said. A deliberative dialogue event is scheduled for Monday, April 19 at 4 p.m. in the Forest Room of UHCL’s Bayou Building, 2700 Bay Area Blvd., Houston. The event is open to all undergraduate students over all majors.
Omani Ambassador to lead roundtable at UHCL student conference
April 02, 2018 | UHCL Staff
Undergraduate and graduate students across all colleges at University of Houston-Clear Lake have the opportunity to present their research work to their peers, professors, community members and students from other universities, and expert evaluators at the 24th Annual Student Conference to be held in the Bayou Building April 16-19. This year’s conference features a unique highlight: a visit on April 16 from Her Excellency Hunaina Sultan Ahmed Al Mughairy, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to the United States.
Health care administration certification adds business acumen to physicians' skills
March 30, 2018 | UHCL Staff
The health care market changes constantly, requiring physicians to change along with it. Medical education is transforming, and although physicians are highly trained in their specialties, University of Houston-Clear Lake’s health care administration program recognizes that evolving market demands that they also acquire additional competencies, such as business acumen and data analytic skills.
Brave Combo brings cultural mix of dance music to Bayou Theater
March 29, 2018 | UHCL Staff
For anyone who’s never attended a Brave Combo performance, keyboard player and founding member Carl Finch said his advice is to simply expect the unexpected. The two-time Grammy award-winning, Denton, Texas-based quintet will bring their combination polka, blues, zydeco, cha-cha and cumbia dance music to the Bayou Theater at University of Houston-Clear Lake on Friday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Professor teaches value of communicating, storytelling
March 28, 2018 | UHCL Staff
For Andrea Baldwin, lecturer in communication at University of Houston-Clear Lake, her class is not simply a room full of students. Her class – especially her Storytelling class – is an incubator.
UHCL faculty win education research award
March 21, 2018 | Jean Rudnicki
Three University of Houston-Clear Lake faculty members have been named winners of the prestigious American Education Research Association’s (AERA) Michael Pyryt Collaboration Award, presented by its Special Interest Group for Research on Giftedness, Creativity and Talent for their joint research. Associate Professor of Educational Foundations Carol Carman, Assistant Professor of Psychology Christine Walther and Professor of Psychology Robert Bartsch will receive the award at the annual AERA meeting in New York City in April. Walther and Bartsch are with UHCL’s College of Human Sciences and Humanities; Carman is in the College of Education.
UHCL: 'Well-trained mechanical engineers can do just about anything'
March 19, 2018 | UHCL Staff
In Houston, there’s an almost endless demand for highly qualified mechanical engineers. That’s why University of Houston-Clear Lake is offering up-and-coming engineering students the opportunity to obtain a new, competitive bachelor of science in mechanical engineering in a leading-edge science, technology, engineering and math facility.
2018 BFA Exhibition to showcase student works curated by UHCL art and design faculty
March 14, 2018 | UHCL Staff
The selections juried into this year’s University of Houston-Clear Lake Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition, which opens April 5 and runs through May 3, were the result of a newly implemented mentoring process that took place between graduating senior BFA majors, December graduates and a member of the art and design faculty of each artist’s choosing.
Riyaaz Qawwali returning to Bayou Theater
March 09, 2018 | UHCL Staff
At the core of Riyaaz Qawwali’s musical performances is interfaith awareness and a celebration of the diversity in South Asia. The seven-man ensemble returns to share its particular brand of centuries-old spiritual, devotional music for their second performance of the season at University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Bayou Theater Saturday, March 31, 7:30 p.m., with an additional event scheduled to enhance the audience’s understanding of the music’s cultural origins and message.
UHCL chemistry professor receives PROSE award for encyclopedia
March 09, 2018 | Jim Townsend
University of Houston-Clear Lake Professor of Chemistry Daniel Zerong Wang is recipient of a 2018 PROSE Award, the Association of American Publishers’ highest honors for professional and scholarly works. Wang won the award in the category of Multivolume Reference/Science for the “Encyclopedia of Physical Organic Chemistry,” published by the prestigious John Wiley and Sons, Inc. in 2017.
Japanese students visit UHCL, discuss natural disaster recovery
March 08, 2018 | UHCL Staff
Anthropology students at University of Houston-Clear Lake had the opportunity to learn from 23 students and two professors from Fukushima University in Japan how they coped with the events of March 11, 2011. On that day, Fukushima suffered an earthquake, followed by a devastating tsunami that triggered the nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to malfunction, causing the most significant nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.