NAME:
University of Houston

HOME TOWN:
Houston, Texas

MASCOT:
Shasta the Cougar

SCHOOL COLORS:
Red and white

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
Daya Bay, DarkSide, LBNE, MINOS/MINOS+, Mu2e

NUMBER OF SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Three faculty, one postdoc, one graduate student, one undergraduate student

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1990

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Experiment: neutrino physics, dark matter, rare processes
Theory: quantum field theory and its applications to black holes

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON APART?
For a relatively small group, we have a broad involvement in Intensity Frontier projects. We also have an active heavy ion group.

FUNDING AGENCIES:
DOE and NSF

Xiaobo Huang, Lisa Whitehead, Kwong Lau. Not pictured: Ed Hungerford, Damian Alexander and Jonathan Miller.