UHD News
UHD’s Holiday Toy Drive and “Toys for Tickets”
This year the UHD Police Department and Staff Council are sponsoring UHD’s Holiday Toy Drive from now until Dec. 11 in support of Betsy Ross and Ketelson Elementary schools and Mickey Leland College Preparatory Academy for Young Men. In...
Food Services' News, Nov. 24-26
HOLIDAY HOURS Gator Bite Café and Starbucks are CLOSED Nov. 26-30. Visit dineoncampus.com/uhd for updates on Dining Hours Nov. 3-25 Finals Bundle | Gator Bite Café C-Store Stay fueled during finals week! Grab 3 Awake Chocolate Squares, 1 Belvita...
Support Our Gators This GivingTuesday
GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Since then, it has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate...
In UHD Club Sports News…
We’re proud of our Lady Gators Volleyball Team! They had a fantastic season, completing it with a 6-3 record. The season ended with a 2-0 loss to the tournament champions, LSC Houston North. Not to worry…we’ll get them next year! And special...
Ammar Ansari is Turning UHD Lessons into Global Impact
As a senior in the Bachelor of Science in Psychology program, Ammar Ansari has spent his undergraduate years at UHD exploring how understanding people can lead to meaningful change. As the founder of the Malaikah Foundation, named after the Arabic...
Show Your Gator Pride This Thanksgiving!
Thursday, Nov. 27, will mark the third Thanksgiving Day in a row featuring the 45-foot-tall Ed-U-Gator balloon in Houston’s annual H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade. This year he will be joined by UHD cheerleaders, the Gatorettes dance team, and a...
A Reflection on “Cadence of Light: Signal, Surface, Field”
It was like seeing an old friend—or 20 old friends—and falling back into a sense of familiarity as if no time had passed at all. That’s how I felt upon entering La Colombe d’Or’s display of 20 works by the late Floyd Newsum, Jr., his highly...
Commissioner Lesley Briones and Houston Grand Opera’s Khori Dastoor to Speak at UHD’s 79th Commencement Ceremonies
Right this moment, there are more than 2,000 excited Gators, looking forward to their graduation on Friday, Dec. 12, at NRG Arena. UHD will hold two ceremonies for its 79th Commencement, featuring two dynamic guest commencement speakers. During...
Let Your Favorite High School Senior Know: Applications for ‘Tu Futuro’ Scholarship Are Underway
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself,” wrote the founder of Success Magazine, Orison Swett Marden, more than 100 years ago. For current senior high school seniors, that opportunity might just be the winning essay for the Tu Futuro...
Give To Gators Gifts Strengthen Student Resources in the W.I. Dykes Library
Thanks to the generosity of university faculty and staff, the W.I. Dykes Library has expanded its collection of tools and technology designed to enhance student learning, collaboration, and academic success.