For more than a decade, Rice’s Frederi Viens has been studying Lake Chad, a vast freshwater lake in west-central Africa that borders Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
Rice experts share sustainability strategies for Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale boom
A delegation of researchers from Rice’s WaTER Institute traveled to Argentina’s Neuquén province this month to help address a pressing question facing one of the world’s fastest-growing energy regions: how to balance rapid oil and gas development with long-term environmental sustainability.
Senior Spotlight 2026: Marek at the helm of engineering and sailing
For Rice senior Leo Marek, engineering is about finding the small changes that make big systems run better.
5 Rice researchers elected AAAS fellows
Five Rice professors, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Volker Rudolf, Edward Knightly, Marcia O’Malley and Ed Billups, have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Rice WaTER Institute and IDE Technologies collaborate to advance water treatment solutions
IDE Technologies, a world leader in desalination and advanced water treatment solutions, and Rice’s WaTER Institute, a multidisciplinary center advancing innovative water treatment technologies, energy transitions and resilient infrastructure, are proud to announce their strategic collaboration.
Rice students design realistic training model to improve uterine cancer biopsy access worldwide
For an interdisciplinary team of Rice undergraduates, improving global women’s health started with a pressing question: What does it take to make an essential cancer diagnostic procedure available worldwide?
In collaboration with the Houston Health Department, the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies recently hosted a two-part Mobile Stroke Unit Advocacy Hack-a-thon, inviting students to help solve one of the most pressing challenges facing this innovative technology.
Researchers at Rice recently convened an international group of scientists to explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning could transform one of the world’s most ambitious physics experiments: the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Rice develops low-cost, high-performance plastic heat exchanger
A recent study in Advanced Science reports an innovative, low-cost polymer heat exchanger that could transform how industries manage heat.
A new Rice study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres provides a comprehensive evaluation of how AI-based global weather models simulate tropical cyclones.
Carbon nanotube fiber ‘textile’ heaters could help industry electrify high-temperature gas heating
A cross-disciplinary team at Rice has developed a new type of electric heating element — one that looks less like a traditional metal coil and more like a high-performance thread.
Rice’s Wong breaks down facts about PFAS
Michael S. Wong, the Tina and Sunit Patel Professor in Molecular Nanotechnology at Rice University, is available to speak with media about emerging strategies to address PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), widely known as “forever chemicals.”
On Feb. 17, the SSPEED Center welcomed Jed Anderson, founder and CEO of EnviroAI, for a lecture on environmental AI permitting.
Rice and Lehigh partner with global industry leaders to revolutionize catastrophe modeling
The Consortium for Enhancing Resilience and Catastrophe Modeling (CERCat) convened at Rice Feb. 5-6 for its semiannual meeting.
A new study from mechanical engineers at Rice describes a surprisingly straightforward fix for superhydrophobic surfaces: Instead of just engineering the surface’s chemistry and texture, they focused on engineering its heat flow.