Rice researchers to use NASA AI model to improve hurricane risk estimates
Rice researchers to use NASA AI model to improve hurricane risk estimates.
Shaping digital health innovation for better care
The Digital Health Institute, a joint initiative of Rice and Houston Methodist, will convene leaders across domains of expertise to examine the policy and implementation decisions that shape the real-world use of digital health technologies on Oct.15.
Rice rises to No. 16 in US News rankings as engineering, business programs climb
Rice has climbed one spot to No. 16 in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings, with the university also earning top 10 recognition for value, undergraduate teaching and student experience.
Electrical fingerprint on tiny cell particles could offer new way to spot pancreatic cancer signals
Rice researchers have developed a device that separates particles, making cancer-associated signals more visible.
Rice celebrates Kavraki, Richards-Kortum for rare ‘triple crown’ achievement
Lydia Kavraki and Rebecca Richards-Kortum are the first two faculty members in Rice history to be elected to all three U.S. national academies — the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine.
Rice project aims to reinvent cameras with generative AI
Rice has received an NSF award to develop artificial intelligence-powered cameras.
Rice’s Akane Sano named to inaugural class of Chief of Naval Research Fellows
Rice's Akane Sano has been selected for the first class of the Chief of Naval Research Fellows program.
Rice’s Huang elected fellow of SPIE for contributions to optics and photonics
Shengxi Huang was elected this month as a fellow of SPIE.
Rice to lead $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications
Rice will lead a $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications.
Rice students help NASA imagine future of lunar exploration through SUITS challenge
Rice’s OWL SUITS team, led by members of the Rice Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Club, was selected for NASA SUITS, a national software design challenge that invites college students to develop interface solutions for future human spaceflight.
Rice and NASA launch world’s first open-source remote space robotics simulator
Researchers at NASA and Rice have launched the the world’s first open-source dynamic simulation environment to develop robots used in space vehicles and indoor space habitats.
New detector design has potential to expand search for dark matter
Rice researchers’ detector concept uses engineered semiconductor materials to search for axions in a range of possible masses that has remained difficult to probe with existing experiments.
Listening through a network: A new view of how the cochlea processes sound
Rice researchers developed a new way to model how the cochlea processes incoming sound using graph signal processing, which could shed light on what happens as hearing deteriorates with age and make possible better assistive technologies for people with hearing loss.
How do bilingual brains navigate between languages? Scientists discover ‘geometric neural map’
A new study by researchers at Rice and Baylor reveals that the brain maintains a geometric neural “map” for meaning that allows multilingual speakers to express themselves across languages.
Digital Health Institute welcomes French delegation to explore pathways to collaboration
The Houston Methodist-Rice Digital Health Institute recently welcomed Frank Marchetti, Consul General of France in Houston, and his team to discuss health care innovation and avenues for international collaboration.