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University of Houston
http://www.uh.edu

The University of Houston is the state's premier urban teaching and research institution. The largest and most comprehensive component of The University of Houston System, UH serves more than 30,000 students in 14 colleges and a host of schools and programs offering 291 undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. UH conducts basic research in each academic department and operates more than 40 research centers and institutes on campus. Through these facilities, UH maintains creative partnerships with government and private industry. The interdisciplinary research conducted at UH breaks new ground in such vital areas as superconductivity, space commercialization, biomedical engineering, economics, education, petroleum exploration and management. Libraries at UH provide abundant resources for research with total collective holdings of more than 1.8 million volumes, 3.1 million microfilm units, 15,000 research journal subscriptions and various other research materials. A computerized catalog system links all four UH System libraries and the specialized libraries at UH. A computer network links more than 4,000 workstations across campus.

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