Jade Boyd

Rice lab’s ‘drug factory’ implants cleared for human trials

Federal regulators have approved the first human clinical trial of cancer-killing “drug factory” implants created by Rice bioengineers.

Next-generation networks with fast changes and increased security

Rice computer scientists are leading the development of programmable networks that respond to change in seconds without downtime.

Ken Kennedy Institute will host AI in Health Conference Nov. 7-9

Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute is organizing and hosting the AI in Health Conference Nov. 7-9 at the BioScience Research Collaborative.

Rice improves catalyst that destroys ‘forever chemicals’ with sunlight

Rice chemical engineers have improved their light-powered catalyst for destroying forever chemical PFOA.

Tetrahedrons assemble! Three-sided pyramids form 2D structures

Rice chemists have discovered pyramid-shaped gold nanoparticles put their own twist on 2D self-assembly.

Study: Explosive volcanic eruption produced rare mineral on Mars

Rice, NASA and Caltech scientists have solved a mystery that began with a 2016 discovery by Mars rover Curiosity.

Rice engineers get a grip with ‘necrobotic’ spiders

Rice University engineers find they can manipulate the legs of dead spiders to serve as grippers.

Synthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA

Bioengineers used deactivated Cas9 fusion proteins to synthetically control gene expression and reveal new details about natural processes in human cells.

Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second

Rice neuroengineers and collaborators have created wireless technology to remotely activate brain circuits.

RSVPs requested for Aug. 4 memorial celebration honoring longtime mathematics professor John Hempel

Rice will host an Aug. 4 memorial celebration to honor the life of longtime math professor John Hempel.

Nobel laureate, beloved Rice professor Robert Curl dead at 88

Nobel Prize-winning chemist and beloved Rice University Professor Robert Curl died July 3 at age 88.

​​​​​​​Researchers discover new leukemia-killing compounds

Researchers from Rice and MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered potential new drugs for treating leukemia.

City, county and port support Galveston Bay Park study

Houston, Harris County, Port Houston and entrepreneur Joe Swinbank have chipped in for an engineering study of Galveston Bay Park, a chain of man-made islands that Rice University experts have proposed building as both a hurricane barrier and a 10,000-acre public park.

Rice lab’s quantum simulator delivers new insight

A Rice University quantum simulator is giving physicists a clear look at spin-charge separation, a bizarre phenomenon in which two parts of indivisible particles called electrons travel at different speeds in extremely cold 1D wires. The research is published this week in Science and has implications for quantum computing and electronics with atom-scale wires.

Zoghbi shares prestigious 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

Rice trustee Dr. Huda Zoghbi is a co-recipient of the prestigious 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.