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Program in collaboration with area colleges empowers next generation of sustainability data scholars

May 21, 2025

This spring, 75 students from Lone Star College, San Jacinto Community College and Houston Community College met with Rice faculty, staff and graduate students five times over three months to explore how data science can be used to solve real-world sustainability challenges.

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Forging a path to a sustainable carbon economy: Inside the vision of Rice’s Carbon Hub

May 21, 2025

As the world races to address the climate crisis, a coalition headquartered at Rice is taking a radically collaborative approach to one of the toughest challenges: how to decarbonize industry while at the same time boosting manufacturing, improving infrastructure and securing the supply chains for the energy and materials we rely on every day.

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Rice researchers engineer personalized treatments for movement impairments

May 20, 2025

Impaired neuromusculoskeletal function due to conditions such as stroke, osteoarthritis, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, limb amputation, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and cancer is a leading cause of disability.

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Cushion Queens bring comfort to the commute: Rice students design mechanotherapeutic seat for bus drivers

May 19, 2025

Public transit operators keep cities moving, helping people get to work, attend medical appointments and access essential services. But while passenger safety is often in the spotlight, the health and well-being of drivers who spend long hours behind the wheel is frequently overlooked.

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Invisible currents at the edge: Rice research team shows how magnetic particles reveal a hidden rule of nature

May 19, 2025

Recently, a team of scientists and engineers at Rice discovered a phenomenon on a microscopic scale, where tiny magnetic particles driven by rotating fields spontaneously move along the edges of clusters driven by invisible “edge currents” that follow the rules of an unexpected branch of physics.

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Forecasters predicting 17 named storms in Atlantic this hurricane season

May 15, 2025

Experts from Rice are available to speak with the media about hurricane and storm-related topics.

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A new wearable removes the guesswork from breastfeeding

May 14, 2025

While breastfeeding offers numerous benefits for both mother and baby, one challenge has persisted: It’s nearly impossible to know how much milk a baby is consuming.

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About time: Rice researcher exploring how seasonal rhythms shape the hidden web of life

May 13, 2025

Volker Rudolf, a professor of biosciences at Rice, is investigating just how powerful seasonal rhythms, known as phenologies, can be.

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Pasquali named fellow of The Society of Rheology

May 12, 2025

Rice’s Matteo Pasquali has been elected a fellow of The Society of Rheology (SoR).

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A night to remember: Rice celebrates the undergraduate Class of 2025

May 11, 2025

Rice conferred more than 2,900 degrees to its newest graduates — the most in the university’s history — during its 112th commencement weekend held May 9-10.

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Kosmos 482’s return being watched closely by Rice experts

May 9, 2025

Kosmos 482’s return is being watched closely by Rice experts.

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‘Deeply meaningful’: Rice President Reginald DesRoches named ASCE distinguished member

May 8, 2025

Rice President Reginald DesRoches, a nationally recognized leader in resilient infrastructure and engineering education, has been elected to the 2025 class of distinguished members of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

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Rice to host 2025 Carbon Hub Annual Meeting

May 7, 2025

Rice will host the 2025 Carbon Hub Annual Meeting May 12-13, marking the fifth anniversary of the Rice-led coalition of academia, industry and federal labs working to advance industrial decarbonization, electrification and hydrogen production.

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New roadmap advances catalytic solutions to destroy ‘forever chemicals’

May 6, 2025

A team of researchers from Rice, Carnegie Mellon University and other leading global institutions has outlined a bold new roadmap for harnessing heterogeneous catalysis to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the so-called “forever chemicals” that have contaminated water supplies worldwide.

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Rice experts can address severe weather and flooding risks caused by current omega block

May 6, 2025

Rice experts can address severe weather and flooding risks caused by current omega block.

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