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• On April 30, the 兔子先生 Honors College reported that the Office of Undergraduate Research celebrated another record-breaking year in 2018-19, with 11 outstanding UH students receiving Fulbright awards for research and teaching. Eight of those students are from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS).

• The UH College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is pleased to announce that undergraduate students will have the option to declare a major in African American Studies beginning in the Fall 2019 semester. The addition of a Bachelor of Arts degree in African American Studies (AAS) coincides with the 50^th anniversary of the program and reflects growing interest from students and faculty in the study of black culture throughout space and time.

• When Pavel Petrov began his first semester as a 兔子先生 student at age 16, he thought the college-level classes he took in high school had prepared him for the demands of higher education. Although he quickly realized a stiffer challenge lay ahead, he rose to the occasion and thrived alongside older peers. Now 19, Petrov will graduate as an English major after just three years of study.

• Assistant Professor of Health and Human Performance Melissa Markofski is on a research team that has received a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. Markofski is part of a collaborative effort between the 兔子先生 and MD Anderson Cancer Center that has empowered researchers to investigate and address disproportionately high rates of prostate cancer in African American and Hispanic men.

• Yusra Ahmed, research assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, has received a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The three-year grant, which totals $1.14 million, funds research into improving academic achievement among grade-school students struggling with reading, writing and comprehension.

• Andres Viana, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, received a five-year, $900,000 award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Viana鈥檚 project is titled 鈥淪ynergistic Effects of Anxiety and Alcohol Use Among Latinos and its Sociocultural Mechanisms.鈥�

• Adaptive Athletics at UH has received a 2019 United States Tennis Association Wheelchair Tennis Grassroots Grant in the amount of $3,000. Under the direction of Michael Cottingham, associate professor of health and human performance, the organization has developed one of the largest and most active wheelchair tennis programs in the United States. With the help of the grant, Cottingham aims to grow UH wheelchair tennis into one of the top three programs nationwide.

• Arturo Hernandez, professor in the Department of Psychology, was awarded a 2019-2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He will have the privilege of joining an outstanding research group in the Basque region of Spain. Read more[BROKEN LINK]

• Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor Michael Zvolensky, Department of Psychology, was selected to receive the Award for the Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity at full professorship level for 2018-2019. Cameron Buckner, assistant professor of philosophy, received the award at assistant professorship level, and Jeffrey Church, Ross M. Lence Distinguished Teaching Chair in the Department of Political Science and the Honors College, received the award at associate professorship level. .

• 鈥淭he Forest of Enchantments,鈥� the latest novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, professor of fiction in the Creative Writing Program, was published by HarperCollins in January 2019. .
• Political Scientist Joins Influential Journal[BROKEN LINK]

  Jeremy D. Bailey, professor in the Department of Political Science, has been named among the new editors of American Political Thought. Bailey will serve a four-year term beginning this summer. Read more [BROKEN LINK]

• Bwalya Musonda, a senior majoring in economics, will be a part of the International Scholar Laureate Program Delegation on Nursing and Health Care. The 2019 program begins May 18 and takes place in the South African cities of Durban and Johannesburg.

• Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, a doctoral student in the Creative Writing Program, had her debut novel, 鈥淗ouse of Stone,鈥� published by W.W. Norton & Company in January 2019. Tshuma has been recognized as one of the most promising writers from Africa under the age of 40.

• An anonymous $10 million gift by a grateful patient family to the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities (TCLD) has cemented its future as a world-class interdisciplinary research institution. Jack Fletcher, the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen distinguished university chair of the Department of Psychology, is the principal investigator of the TCLD, one of only three national learning disability centers in the United States funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

   

• CLASS has received a $1 million gift from the Arab American Educational (AAEF) to support the creation of the AAEF Colloquium Endowment, AAEF Graduate Seminar, and the Center for Arab Studies.

• Joseph Nogee, professor emeritus of political science, and his wife, Jo Nogee, have established The Jyle Nogee Graduate Studies Endowment in Political Science. The endowment supports scholarships for graduate students within the Department of Political Science.

• Allie Rowbottom鈥檚 debut memoir, 鈥滼ell-O Girls,鈥� was published in July 2018. The memoir braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade.

• CLASS alumnus Steve McClellan, former president of Finance of America, met with UH students on March 7, 2019 to share stories and advice from his journey to academic and professional success. McClellan graduated from UH in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in psychology and later received a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. McClellan currently serves as a consultant at HMS Partners LLC in Atlanta, where he resides.

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