Duncan, Spiegel honored at Rice360 awards breakfast
May 6, 2023
The Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies presented its 2023 Global Champion Award to philanthropist Jan Duncan and its 2023 Alumni Leadership Award to physician Elizabeth Spiegel ’11 at its graduate recognition and awards breakfast May 5.
Rice U. bioengineering Ph.D. named Schmidt Science Fellow
May 3, 2023
Rice U. doctoral alum Joshua Chen has won a prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship that will support his goal of building new technologies to address pressing health care challenges by drawing on his interdisciplinary skill set in bioelectronics and synthetic biology.
Study unlocks potential breakthrough in Type 1 diabetes treatment
April 27, 2023
Rice University scientists identified three biomaterial formulations that could help develop a more sustainable, long-term, self-regulating way to treat Type 1 diabetes using a new screening technique that involves tagging each biomaterial formulation in a library of hundreds with a unique “barcode.”
WashU team wins Rice360 global health tech design competition
April 24, 2023
First place honors at Rice360’s annual Global Health Technologies Design Competition went to a team of Washington University in St. Louis undergraduates who created an innovative and discrete urine collection system that would allow mothers to avoid the stigma and embarrassment from incontinence that can result from prolonged, obstructed labor.
Sensor system could decrease fall risk for older adults
April 13, 2023
A team of Rice University engineering students designed a fall-risk assessment system that enables doctors to create personalized risk-management strategies for patients based on their individual movement patterns at home.
Rice U. engineering students’ brace puts patients first
April 13, 2023
For those suffering from rib flaring associated with congenital deformations of the chest wall that cause it to jut out or cave in, a team of Rice University engineering students has come up with a potential solution.
Higgs, Ramos elected AIMBE Fellows
March 28, 2023
Engineering’s Fred Higgs and Renata Ramos have been elected fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.