The UH System - Advancing Medicine and Public Health
Expansion of Pharmacy Facilities at the Texas Medical Center - Address the current and projected shortages of pharmacy professionals in the nation by expanding the square footage of the College of Pharmacy from 49,000 square feet to 129,000 square feet, allowing the college to expand its faculty by 20 percent and enrollment by 40 percent.
University: UH, College of Pharmacy
Request: $14 million
National Center for Neuroimaging Research - Advance cognitive and neuroscience through the use of functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI and MRI) to help detect and prevent disease.
University: UH, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Request: $10 million
Shared Vision and Brain Imaging Center - Integrate vision and brain research activities across departments and promote greater collaboration through the establishment of a shared, multiuser imaging center.
University: UH, College of Optometry
Request: $10.3 million
Houston Partnership for Environmental Studies - Help people in the Houston region participate more effectively in environmental improvement through research, outreach, and education.
University: UH and UH-Clear Lake
Request: $900,000
Institute for Obesity Prevention and Urban Fitness - Address one of the nation's primary health threats through research, assessment, and intervention.
University: UH, College of Education
Request: $600,000
Pharmacy Efficiency Program - Study how pharmacy efficiency can be improved through the use of techniques such as service blueprinting and failsafing.
University: UH, C.T. Bauer College of Business
Request: $800,000
Space Flight Adaptation Research Center - Develop a fully fledged research and teaching agenda based on preexisting collaborations between UH faculty and NASA-Johnson Space Center researchers. These include current studies of the neuromuscular, sensory-motor, skeletal, and immune system deconditioning associated with prolonged space flight in astronauts.
University: UH, College of Education
Request: $1.7 million
Center for Exercise Rehabilitation Technologies - Create a center of excellence that promotes health and improves the quality of life of older adults and people with disabilities by targeting individual rehabilitation needs through the utilization of exercise machines under automatic computer-feedback control.
University: UH, College of Technology
Request: $3 million
