Short Takes

June 14, 2018 | UHCL Staff

Short Takes

Have a Hawk Adventure

Prospective students and their families are invited to tour University of Houston-Clear Lake’s 524-acre campus in a one-hour walking tour led by current UHCL students on June 22 from 10 a.m. – noon. Attendees will also receive information about applying to the university.

Featured stops on the tour include Alfred R. Neumann Library, the UHCL Art Gallery, and natural features such as Potter Pond and Horsepen Bayou. To learn more about Hawk Adventure or to register, visit www.uhcl.edu/admissions/events/hawk-adventure.  

Learn foundations of network technology

Attendees at University of Houston-Clear Lake Cyber Security Institute’s hands-on course, “Introduction to Networking Technology” will learn the foundations of computer networking in the first three “layers” of the Open Systems Interconnection model.

In the OSI model, seven layers depict the conceptual framework in which network professionals categorize a telecommunications systems. The first three layers represent the physical fundamentals, from hardware and data transfer to voltages and frequencies.

The course is in room 201 of UHCL’s Delta Building, 2700 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, on June 22, 23, 29, 30 and July 6, 7, 13, 14 Fridays 3-8 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m.- 2p.m. This is the third part of the four-session Network Management and Security certificate program. The course is $1,300 and includes instructional materials. For more information, visit the UHCL Cyber Security Institute at www.uhcl.edu/cyber-security-institute.   

UHCL Movie Night:  ‘Ghost Stories’

Come to University of Houston-Clear Lake for “Ghost Stories” on Movie Night, Saturday, June 23 at 7 p.m., in the Student Services and Classroom Building, 2700 Bay Area Blvd., Houston.

A debunker of all things paranormal, Professor Phillip Goodman (Andy Nyman) has devoted his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans on his own television show. His skepticism is put to the test when he receives a file of three chilling, inexplicable cases. The film is not rated. Admission is free with UHCL ID, all others are $4. Parking is free in Lot D. For more information visit www.uhcl.edu/campus-life/arts/film-speaker-series.  

Two UHCL profs join Million Dollar Club for receiving program grants

Sarah Lechago and Jennifer Fritz, University of Houston-Clear Lake associate professors of behavior analysis, have been diligently applying for – and receiving – external grants and contract funding to support graduate assistantships in local school districts and in many other programs. As a result of their efforts, they have received  an honor reserved for the faculty’s top money-raisers: entrance into UHCL’s $1 Million Club, as acknowledged by the Office of Sponsored Programs.

“We are just thrilled about this,” Fritz said. “Some of the funding has been used to support our work at UHCL’s Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, the Severe Behavior Disorders Research Clinic, the Autism Center at Texas Children’s Hospital, the Verbal Behavior Clinic, and the Connecting the Dots program.”

Lechago and Fritz developed the Connecting the Dots program in 2016 to help parents and caregivers of children on the autism spectrum address the connection between communication deficits and problem behavior in a holistic manner.

Fritz serves as the director of CADD’s Severe Behavior Disorders Research Clinic and of the Behavior Analysis Program at Texas Children’s Autism Center. Lechago serves as the director of CADD’s Verbal Behavior Clinic and Verbal Behavior Clinic tele-health program, which will launch in June of 2018.

“We have also received funding for graduate assistantships to Avondale House, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing individuals with autism training and education,” Lechago said.

For more information on CADD, visit www.uhcl.edu/autism-center. For more information about UHCL’s Behavior Analysis program, visit www.uhcl.edu/human-sciences-humanities/departments/clinical-health-applied-sciences/behavior-analysis

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