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Rice team brings home top prize in 2024 Ethics in Engineering Case Competition

A team of Rice engineering students have won this year’s national Ethics in Engineering Case Competition hosted by Lockheed Martin.

Rice group helps improve support device for end-stage heart failure

Rice’s Joseph Cavallaro and his team are part of two multi-institutional projects that have won grants from the Department of Defense (DOD) and the NIH, respectively, to develop and optimize new left ventricular assist devices (LVADs).

Rice’s new Synthesis X Center has winning formula for cancer innovation

Rice has created the new Synthesis X Center to bring together clinicians treating cancer and researchers looking for cures to help spur drug discovery make precision adjustments to drug properties and translate fundamental research discoveries into clinical applications.

Rice Shepherd School composition student organizes benefit concert for hometown affected by Texas panhandle wildfire

When the largest wildfire in Texas history recently ravaged small towns and ranches in the Texas panhandle, Canadian, Texas native Alex Moreno-Gonzalez, a senior composition student in the Rice University Shepherd School of Music , knew he had to do something to help.

Isabel Leonard named Rice Shepherd School’s 2023-24 Aleko Endowed Master Class artist

Three-time Grammy Award winner Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano and star on the world’s leading stages and screens, has been named the Rice University Shepherd School of Music’s 2023-24 Aleko Endowed Master Class artist.

Rice’s OpenStax: Free computer science for all

Now available from OpenStax, the world’s leading provider of free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed content based at Rice University, is “Introduction to Python Programming.” 

Vaccine misinformation at Texas Legislature influences public policy decisions, Rice Baker Institute report says

The majority of Texans support vaccines, but a vocal minority are actively working on weakening or dismantling vaccine requirements, according to a journal article published in Vaccine: X from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and The Immunization Partnership.

How the Houston Symphony stayed ‘jazzy’ during crisis

Rice Business’ podcast, Owl Have You Know, is hosting a special live recording event March 25 with New York Times best-selling author Scott Sonenshein and CEO of the Houston Symphony John Mangum.

Rice research could advance soft robotics manufacturing, design

Rice engineers propose a new quantitative framework to account for and predict the impact of temperature on the curing speed of platinum-catalyzed silicone elastomers. The findings could maximize throughput and minimize waste in the manufacturing of components for soft robotics and wearables.

Rice breakthrough could make automated dosing systems universal

Automated insulin dosing systems combine low-cost blood-glucose monitors with insulin pumps that use precision dosing to continuously regulate blood-sugar and hold it steady. Rice synthetic biologists have found a way to piggyback on the technology and make it universally applicable for the precision dosing of virtually any drug.

Rice energy, geopolitics, innovation experts to speak at CERAWeek

A number of experts in energy, carbon, hydrogen, sustainability, geopolitics and innovation from Rice University will appear at CERAWeek, an annual energy conference organized by the information and insights company S&P Global, to present their research or expertise March 18-22.

Ken Kennedy Institute hosted 17th annual Energy High Performance Computing Conference

The Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice hosted the 17th annual Energy High Performance Computing Conference on March 5-7 at the BioScience Research Collaborative, welcoming over 560 guests to Rice from 30 states and 11 countries.

What a view: Rice scientists develop a new system to record 2D crystal synthesis in real time

A research team at Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering tackled this challenge by developing a custom-built miniaturized chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system capable of observing and recording the growth of 2D molybdenum disulfide crystals in real time.

U.S.-Latin America ‘policy lab’ could leverage AI as arena for international collaboration

Rice experts weighed in on a public hearing of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) on the risks, opportunities and potential ways to leverage artificial intelligence as an arena for international collaboration between the U.S. and Latin America.

Rice engineer featured on panel showcasing Houston’s biomedical innovation economy to state lawmakers

Rice engineer Jacob Robinson participated in the first “Houston Day: Beyond the Bayou” program organized by the Greater Houston Partnership, which brought together state legislators from across Texas for a two-day legislative advocacy event in Houston earlier this month.