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Dan Preston, three students and a postdoc from his lab who won a 2023 Ig Nobel Prize

Preston, four others win Ig Nobel Prize for ‘necrobotic’ spider study

September 18, 2023

Mechanical Engineering’s Daniel Preston, three graduate students and a postdoctoral fellow have won a 2023 Ig Nobel Prize for their “necrobotic” robot arm that incorporated a dead spider.

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Rice marks JFK speech anniversary with a ceremonial liftoff for the Rice Biotech Launch Pad accelerator

September 13, 2023

Rice President Reginald DesRoches and Texas Medical Center President and CEO Bill McKeon joined other university leaders Sept. 12 at a ceremony that simultaneously marked the start of the Rice Biotech Launch Pad and the 61st anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech at Rice Stadium announcing the Apollo moonshot program.

Space Shuttle on launchpad at Kennedy Space Center

​​​​​​​Rice Biotech Launch Pad accelerator aims to rapidly turn medical and health discoveries into cures

September 12, 2023

Rice University today introduced the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, a Houston-based accelerator focused on expediting the translation of the university’s health and medical technology discoveries into cures.

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Rice to host International Space University program in 2024

September 11, 2023

Rice University and NASA’s Johnson Space Center will host the International Space University’s 2024 Space Studies Program, an intensive, eight-week summer program for professionals in space-related fields that will be held on Rice’s campus next summer.

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Lab Notes for Sept. 11, 2023

September 11, 2023

SCI Summer Research Colloquium awards; Applied physics students study in France

32-atom gold fullerene molecule, also known as a gold buckyball

Gold buckyballs, oft-used nanoparticle ‘seeds’ are one and the same

August 14, 2023

Rice chemists have discovered that tiny gold “seed” particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spheres that are cousins of the Nobel Prize-winning carbon buckyballs discovered at Rice in 1985.

Caleb Bashor

Weaker transcription factors are better when they work together

August 14, 2023

Rice bioengineer Caleb Bashor and colleagues have developed a generalizable method to address “off-target” gene activation, a significant problem in the field of synthetic biology. Taking a cue from nature, the researchers showed they could all but eliminate the activation of off-target genes by designing weak transcription factors that cooperatively assemble.

A nurse inserting a lateral flow cassette into the BiliDx jaundice test device

Cost-effective jaundice testing developed for low-resource hospitals

August 14, 2023

The Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies has validated the accuracy of its latest testing technology for newborn jaundice. BiliDx addresses a critical gap in the availability of accurate, affordable, point-of-care jaundice testing in low-resource hospitals.

Qimiao Si

When D turns to F, quantum matter is A-plus

August 2, 2023

In a potential boon for quantum computing, Rice physicists have shown that topologically protected quantum states can be entangled with other, highly manipulable quantum states in some electronic materials.

Rice student Charisma Abolo speaking about her research to Dr. Siddarth Prakash

IBB spotlights summer undergraduate research

July 31, 2023

Undergraduate research was in the spotlight July 28 at Rice’s Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, where judges awarded best-poster honors to 10 students in eight categories.

Jeffrey Tabor and Qimiao Si are 2023 recipients of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowships from the Department of Defense

Rice researchers earn prestigious Defense Department grants

July 20, 2023

Rice professors Qimiao Si and Jeffrey Tabor are recipients of prestigious 2023 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowships from the Department of Defense.

Rice University Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Andre Izidoro

Asteroid named for Rice planetary scientist

July 18, 2023

An asteroid has been named for Rice planetary scientist André Izidoro, a newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences.

Storage containers from Rice University's Preston Innovation Lab can keep VOCs from accumulating on the surface of stored materials for up to six weeks.

Rice engineers’ storage technology keeps nanosurfaces clean

July 17, 2023

Rice mechanical engineers improved on a 50-year-old idea to create container technology that keeps volatile organic compounds from accumulating on the surfaces of stored nanomaterials.

Caleb Bashor

Reporters broadcast live, on-the-scene, inside living cells

July 10, 2023

Synthetic biologists from Rice University and Princeton University have demonstrated “live reporter” technology that can reveal the workings of signaling networks in living cells with far greater precision than current methods. The first-of-its-kind reporting tool can show how quickly signaling networks respond and how responses vary from cell to cell in time and space.

Rice University Ph.D. student Haiyun Guo at work in the Rice Computational Imaging Laboratory

NeuWS camera answers ‘holy grail problem’ in optical imaging

June 28, 2023

Engineers from Rice and the University of Maryland have created technology that could allow cameras to "see" through fog, smoke, driving rain, murky water, skin, muscle and other light-scattering obstructions.

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