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3-year longitudinal study involves 200 middle school teachers and 20 H.I.S.D. schoolsAfter 17 years of researching traumatic stress with war-afflicted populations (veterans and civilians) and job stress in the medical profession, Teresa McIntyre, a research professor in the department of psychology and the Texas Institute for Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics (TIMES), at the University of Houston (UH), decided to study another high risk occupation, middle school teachers in seventh and...

HOUSTON, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, P.C. (PKF Texas) is pleased announce Kenneth Guidry, CPA, President, has been recognized by the University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business Accountancy and Taxation Department with the 2011 Outstanding Alumni Award. "It is an honor to work with alumni like Kenneth who validate everything we do at the Bauer College," said Latha Ramchand, Dean of the Bauer College of Business. "The opportunity to connect with...

NORCROSS, Ga., April 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- UHS-Pruitt Corporation is excited to announce the redesign of its website. The new layout leads viewers through options individual to their needs and to solutions that meet their healthcare requirements. Modernized design and fresh content are aimed at giving providers, patients, and families' greater access to information so they may make informed decisions concerning their health or the health of their loved one. Once users visit...

Team effort between UH, Michigan State may lead to strategies to reduce antibiotic resistanceIn a study that literally analyzed competing bacteria fighting it out to the death, a University of Houston (UH) researcher and his colleagues identified evolutionary 'winners' and 'losers.' Continuing research to understand the basis of these fates may become a useful tool is designing roadblocks to antibiotic resistance.In collaboration with scientists at Michigan State University (MSU), UH...

HOUSTON, March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) (sportswriters.net) has announced that its annual basketball awards will be presented at an 8 a.m. breakfast celebration on Friday, April 1, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. The event, to be held the morning before the national semifinals of the NCAA Final Four, will be co-hosted by the University of Houston Lettermen's "H" Association (uhletterwinners.com) and...

Pharmacy, engineering professors at UH combine efforts to speed drug developmentEliminating tens of thousands of manual lab experiments, two University of Houston (UH) professors are working toward a method to cut the development time of new antibiotics. While current practices typically last for more than a decade, a computerized modeling system being developed at UH will speed up this process.Vincent Tam, associate professor of clinical sciences, and Michael Nikolaou, professor of chemical...

Rigoberto Advincula publishes key findings simultaneously in 3 high-impact journalsMonitoring everything from explosives to tainted milk, materials for use in creating sensors for detection devices have been developed by a University of Houston (UH) chemist and his team. The findings recently appeared simultaneously in three journals."There are many dangerous substances, pollutants and infectious bacteria we are constantly exposed to," said Rigoberto Advincula, a highly cited...

Legal education organization to provide survey of recent developments and actions in the energy and environmental legal arenas HOUSTON, Jan. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On February 3-4, 2011, Practising Law Institute (PLI), the nation's largest producer of continuing legal education, will present the First Annual Energy and Environmental Law Institute with the University of Houston Law Center. Legal issues in the energy industry played a pivotal role in U.S. economic and security...

UH's Jan-Ake Gustafsson publishes key findings in 2 high-impact journalsResearch with significant implications in the treatment and intervention of cancer and obesity has been published recently in two prestigious journals by University of Houston (UH) biochemist Dr. Jan-Ã…ke Gustafsson.In an invited review in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the most-cited biomedical research journal in the world, Gustafsson and his team summarize the most recent results pertaining to the function of...

Results published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesUniversity of Houston (UH) physicists are using complex computer simulations to illuminate the workings of a crucial protein that, when malfunctioning, may cause Alzheimer's and cancer.Margaret Cheung, assistant professor of physics at UH, and Antonios Samiotakis, a physics Ph.D. student, described their findings in a paper titled "Structure, function, and folding of phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) are strongly...