Our New Year’s Resolutions start strong, but fizzle out quickly without vigilance, especially if you’ve resolved to live a healthier lifestyle. The University of Houston Texas Obesity Research Center offers these 10 strategies to get back on track to maintaining a healthy weight.
Multicultural psychologists from around the world will come to Houston to discuss diversity, social justice and growing mental health needs of groups with limited access to care.
Daphne Hernandez, assistant professor of health and human performance at the University of Houston, urges all to be mindful of those who live with need all year, particularly families who are “food insecure.” According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Core Food Security Module, “food insecurity” reflects rationing, portion control and inability to offer families balanced meals.
Arte Público Press is the recipient of an additional $400,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to continue to fund the ¡Salud, familia! Project, a multi-pronged effort to use bilingual literature and media to impact Latino health and health policy.
A new University of Houston (UH) experiment takes an unconventional look at the treatment for domestic violence, otherwise known as intimate partner violence (IPV), by focusing on changing the perpetrators’ psychological abuse during arguments rather than addressing his sexist beliefs.
A simple and inexpensive device to wash leafy produce, created by students at the University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management (HRM), may provide a convenient way for small farmers to clean produce before market.
Physical and social sciences share students and classroom space, but part ways in the approach to research. The next generation of researchers will need newer skills that meld both perspectives.
Forecasters predict about nine to 15 tropical storms this year, with as many as four to eight of those becoming hurricanes. University of Houston resources have expertise in a variety of topics related to storms – before, during and after.
A study completed by the University of Houston suggests African-American students do not necessarily fare better when taught by African American teachers.
The narrative of UH senior Emina Sadic includes the fateful words of her mother, uttered in a Bosnian refugee camp: "Your father is dead." Sadic is graduating with honors on Friday.
The hundreds of students who will don the cap and gown for commencement bring varied experiences, struggles and interests to this important milestone.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a five-year, $9 million grant to the University of Houston’s Texas Center for Learning Disabilities to conduct research on the causes and treatment of learning disabilities in children and adolescents. UH is one of four universities nationally to receive funding from the NIH for a learning disability research center.
A $1 million gift from Branch Banking & Trust (BB&T) to the UH Hobby Center for Public Policy will make new programs, a new speakers series and a summer training institute in social science research methods available for graduate and undergraduates interested in varying public policy perspectives.
The Texas Obesity Research Center (TORC) promotes interdisciplinary research, education and training to combat the global epidemic of obesity. Please consider these stories from TORC.
Children who have chronic sleep problems may be much more likely to develop mental health disorders as adolescents and adults, according to Candice Alfano, associate professor in clinical psychology at the University of Houston (UH) and director of the new Sleep and Anxiety Center for Kids (SACK).
How teens think and whether their thoughts might indicate a personality disorder is the focus of a new research study led by Carla Sharp, associate professor in clinical psychology and director of the Developmental Psychopathology Lab at the University of Houston (UH).
The CDC has awarded the University of Houston department of health and human performance $4.25 million to create an innovative evaluation method that will examine and compare three comprehensive childhood obesity programs.
The spoils of war for returning veterans may include addictions, injury and the constant images of horrific events they witnessed. Now a UH joint study funded by the Veterans Health Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development service looks to address these issues through the use of virtual reality.
ConocoPhillips is donating $1 million to the University of Houston and the emerging UH Energy Research Park, a collection of the university’s preeminent energy research and education programs.
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