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Cullen is an Irish surname. It is an Anglicised form of Gaelic Ó Cuileáin 'descendant of Cuileán', a name meaning ' wolfhound whelp ', 'young hound'. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also considered by some to mean the 'handsome one'. [ 3 ]
Hugh Roy Cullen (July 3, 1881 – July 4, 1957) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Cullen was heavily involved in the petroleum industry having struck oil near Texas in 1928. [ 1 ] He was a large supporter of multiple educational institutions in and around Houston, in one of which, the University of Houston , he became a longtime ...
Cullen Center in Houston, Texas; Cullen, a genus of legumes native to the Old World; Cullen College of Engineering, an academic college at the University of Houston; Cullen number, a natural number of the form n · 2 n + 1 (written C n) Cullen skink, a thick Scottish soup; Cullen Wines, a winery in Western Australia
The construction of the Ezekiel W. Cullen Building was announced by the university on March 21, 1945. [1] The construction of the E. Cullen Building was part of a large expansion to the University of Houston's permanent buildings on campus that took place starting on May 10, 1948, and the official groundbreaking ceremony occurred on May 14, 1948.
The building was named the "Roy Gustav Cullen Memorial Building" as a memorial to the Cullens' only son who had died in an oil field accident two years earlier. H.R. Cullen would later serve as Chairman of the Board of Regents for the university—and before his death in 1957—had donated over $11 million to the University of Houston. [3]
Cullen was a self-educated cotton and real-estate businessman who moved to Houston in 1918 and soon began oil prospecting. [124] Cullen's success led to his founding the South Texas Petroleum Company (with partner Jim West Sr.) and Quintana Oil Company. [125]
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The Cullen College of Engineering, one of twelve academic colleges at the University of Houston, was established in 1941 and is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. More than 5,000 students are enrolled in engineering courses—3,759 undergraduates, 1,312 master's and doctoral students. [ 1 ]