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PROMES Director Jerrod Henderson Earns Inspiring STEM Leader Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine

Each year INSIGHT Into Diversity, a magazine and website devoted to increasing and embracing diversity in higher education, recognizes leaders from underrepresented groups who are making a difference in the science, technology,…
PROMES Director Jerrod Henderson Earns Inspiring STEM Leader Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine
VIDEO: Giving a Hand to Those in Need: Two UH Undergrads Share Their Gifts

On a Wednesday evening in November, Maria Sanchez sits quietly weeping inside a private room on the first floor of the University of Houston M.D. Anderson library. "My baby just held a cell phone with his left hand," she allows,…
VIDEO: Giving a Hand to Those in Need: Two UH Undergrads Share Their Gifts
Engineering Students Now Have Seamless Transfer Option With UH

Beginning this Fall, San Jacinto College students will be eligible for a seamless transfer into the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. San Jacinto College has signed an articulation agreement with the University…
Engineering Students Now Have Seamless Transfer Option With UH
G.R.A.D.E. Camp Redefines STEM Field Roles

Engineering and computer science professions attract fewer women than other STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields in the United States. For more than a decade, professors at the UH Cullen College of…
G.R.A.D.E. Camp Redefines STEM Field Roles
PHOTOS: Out of the Darkness Walk

In a show of campus-wide solidarity against the stigmas surrounding mental illness, nearly 300 participants raised over $17,000 for the sixth annual Out of the Darkness campus walk that took place at the University of Houston on…
PHOTOS: Out of the Darkness Walk
PHOTOS: College Says Goodbye to Long-Time PROMES Program Manager

After 25 years of service to the Cullen College of Engineering, John Matthews, program manager for PROMES and STEP Forward Camp director, retired on Jan. 31. Students, faculty and staff celebrated Matthews’ tenure at the…
PHOTOS: College Says Goodbye to Long-Time PROMES Program Manager
College Bids Farewell to PROMES Program Manager

After 25 years of service to the Cullen College of Engineering, John Matthews, program manager for PROMES and STEP Forward Camp director, will retire on January 31st. Matthews has been an instrumental part of leading the PROMES…
College Bids Farewell to PROMES Program Manager
PROMES Teams Up with AFSP for 6th Annual Out of the Darkness Walk

In 2012, one person in the United States died by suicide every 12.9 minutes. In college terms, that means in the span of just one 50-minute class, at least three people in this country took their own lives. According to the…
PROMES Teams Up with AFSP for 6th Annual Out of the Darkness Walk
UH Suicide Prevention Walk Highlighted by Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Newspaper

Kathy Zerda recently retired from her position at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, but the former PROMES director is still making a difference in her community through her work with the American Foundation for Suicide…
UH Suicide Prevention Walk Highlighted by Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Newspaper
PROMES 40th Anniversary Endowment Fully Funded

The “40th Anniversary PROMES/Shell Engineering Retirees Scholarship Endowments in Honor of Dr. Gerhard Paskusz and Dr. Katherine S. Zerda” in the amount of $40,000 was announced on May 31 at the PROMES 40th Anniversary Reconnect…
PROMES 40th Anniversary Endowment Fully Funded