CONTENTS

Campus Bulletin Departments

Power of

Dean Catherine Horn believes researchers have the ability—and responsibility—to solve society’s most pressing issues. She’s starting with making education more equitable.

Features Columns

32 Road to the Big 12

Men’s Basketball Head Coach Kelvin Sampson saw the potential for a historic rebound. He was right.

40 The Great Energy Transfer

The University of Houston is leading the charge toward a new energy era.

46 It Doesn’t End at the Border

52 Where Would We Be Without Nurses?

Kathryn Tart, founding dean of the Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing, tackles the ongoing nursing shortage.

54 Tip Your Robot

Meet Servi, the robot waiter that might be the first wave in an increasingly techdriven dining experience.

She’s uncovered secrets of an ancient Maya civilization in Belize. Now, Diane Z. Chase is applying those findings to her role as UH’s new provost.

The Spirit World Blair Ault is having visions—visions of a whole new world of craft whiskey on the horizon.

UH professors aim to transform immigration policy and advance migrant health research at the Texas-Mexico border.

56 Murder Most Cozy

Writer Robert Cremins discusses our paradoxical appetite for murder mysteries —while devouring them nightly.