A $2 million recruitment grant was awarded to bring Rohith Reddy, who focuses on next-generation technologies for detecting gynecological cancers, to campus. Reddy, currently a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School, will become an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UH.
Lorraine Reitzel, incoming chairwoman of the Department of Psychological Health and Learning Sciences in the College of Education, received $1.3 million to expand a tobacco cessation program to substance abuse treatment centers.