Awards & Honors

10 UH Students Receive Fulbright Scholarships

A remarkable 46 UH students have been honored with Fulbright scholarships since 2018 — 11 more than in the previous 51 years combined. UH has consistently ranked as a top producer of Fulbright students in recent years.

3 UH Students Awarded Critical Language Scholarship

The Critical Language Scholarship program gives students a summer study-abroad opportunity to learn languages essential to the U.S.’s engagement with the world. This year’s recipients are Avan Mammadova (Azerbaijani), Peijun Zhao (Mandarin) and Heather Butina-Sutton (Portuguese).

Gabby Kostecki Named Amgen Scholar

Gabby Kostecki is the first UH student in five years to win an Amgen Scholarship, an undergraduate summer research program in science and biotechnology that will allow her to conduct research, network with leading scientists and participate in seminars at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Fulbright recipient Amanda Pascali is currently in Messina, Italy, researching and translating the works of a Sicilian folk singer. Read about Pascali’s journey and her own musical success.

2 Professors Join National Academy of Engineering

Joining names such as Elon Musk (founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX), Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft Corp.), and Noubar B. Afeyan (co-founder of Moderna Inc.) are Leon Thomsen, research professor of geophysics, and Pradeep Sharma, M.D. Anderson chair professor and Department of Mechanical Engineering chair. Honorees are engineers whose research, practice or education has pioneered new and developing fields of technology.

National Humanities Center Fellow Named

As a National Humanities Center Residential Fellow, Cedric R. Tolliver, associate professor of English, received a $50,000 stipend to research and write his book-length manuscript, “Spook(ed): African American Literature, National Security, and the Fictions of Statecraft.” Tolliver teaches courses in African American literature and culture and literary theory at UH.

Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography Awarded

The prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship will help Keliy Anderson-Staley, associate professor of photography, complete her latest project, “Raw Materials in Peace and War” — a series of handmade books and installations that comment on generational tensions of race, class and politics over the decades.