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Georgia State U.'s Aurign wins 2020 Rice Business Plan Competition

June 22, 2020

HOUSTON – (June 22, 2020) – Aurign from Georgia State University in Atlanta rose to the top in the 2020 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) hosted June 17-19 by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business.

Figure depicting the action of an aluminum-palladium antenna-reactor nanocatalyst that harnesses light energy to break chemical bonds in fluorocarbons

Fluorocarbon bonds are no match for light-powered nanocatalyst

June 22, 2020

Rice University engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in fluorocarbons, a group of synthetic materials that includes persistent environmental pollutants.

Tony Payan. Photo credit: Baker Institute

Rice expert available to discuss upcoming Supreme Court decision on DACA

June 17, 2020

HOUSTON – (June 17, 2020) – As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to issue a ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Rice University's Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is available for comment.

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China, India need to act quickly to 'return to peaceful disagreement,' says Baker Institute expert

June 17, 2020

HOUSTON – (June 17, 2020) – The most serious face-off between China and India on the world's longest unsettled land border in nearly half a century left dozens of soldiers dead Monday night. "The resurgence of a decades-old border dispute between India and China, and especially an escalation to violent conflict with casualties, threatens to destabilize regional order unless leaders from both countries act quickly to negotiate a return to peaceful disagreement," said Steven Lewis, the C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow at the Baker Institute.

Rice University scientists’ simple model of T cell activation of the immune response shows the T cell binding, via a receptor (TCR) to an antigen-presenting cell (APC). If an invader is identified as such, the response is activated, but only if the “relaxation” time of the binding is long enough. (Credit: Hamid Teimouri/Rice University)

‘Relaxed’ T cells critical to immune response

June 16, 2020

Rice University researchers model the role of relaxation time as T cells bind to invaders or imposters, and how their ability to differentiate between the two triggers the body’s immune system.

The word "taxes" with money imprinted on the letters.

Baker Institute expert available to comment on Biden tax proposals

June 16, 2020

HOUSTON – (June 16, 2020) – The tax proposals outlined by former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, would raise $3.8 trillion in revenue over 10 years but do little to address debt growth, according to a new report co-authored by an expert at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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42 student startups to compete for over $1 million in first virtual Rice Business Plan Competition

June 16, 2020

In its 20th year, the Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) — the world's largest and richest student startup competition — is going virtual. Register to watch at rbpc.rice.edu/agenda.

Rice scientists found certain combinations of weakly bound 2D materials let holes and electrons combine into excitons at the materials’ ground state. Courtesy of the Yakobson Research Group

Excitons form superfluid in certain 2D combos

June 15, 2020

Mixing and matching computational models of 2D materials led scientists at Rice University to the realization that excitons can be manipulated in new and useful ways.

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Stress-management strategies can boost health care teams during pandemic

June 12, 2020

Celebrating successes, admitting mistakes and encouraging honest communication can improve teamwork during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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New $2.9M grant to fund science and religion research

June 11, 2020

HOUSTON – (June 11, 2020) – A new subfield of sociological research examining how identities and beliefs are related to attitudes about science and religion will be advanced by a $2.9 million grant to sociologists at Rice University and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Credit: Rice Kinder Institute.

Sun Belt cities comprise nearly half of US population growth

June 11, 2020

The Sun Belt's large metro areas are growing much faster than those elsewhere in the United States, and they are adding more young and old residents than the rest of the nation, according to a new white paper from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.

The design of thio-based photosensitizers, at left, by Rice University chemists shows promise for photodynamic cancer therapy, among other applications. One thiocarbonyl substitution -- trading an oxygen atom for a sulfur atom -- of a variety of fluorophores can dramatically enhance their ability to generate reactive oxygen species that kill cancer cells. At right, images of multicellular tumor spheroids treated with photosensitizers and light (in the bottom row) show how the compounds, when excited by ligh

Rice lab turns fluorescent tags into cancer killers

June 11, 2020

Fluorophores with one oxygen atom replaced by a sulfur atom can be triggered with light to create reactive oxygen species within cancer cells, killing them.

Rice University researchers have demonstrated methods for both designing data-centric computing hardware and co-designing hardware with machine-learning algorithms that together can improve energy efficiency in artificial intelligence hardware by as much as two orders of magnitude.

Rice engineers offer smart, timely ideas for AI bottlenecks

June 11, 2020

Rice researchers demonstrate methods to design data-centric hardware and co-designing hardware with machine-learning algorithms that can improve energy efficiency in artificial intelligence hardware.

Elite police squad member in tactical ammunition

War on drugs causes aggressive policing, says Baker Institute expert

June 9, 2020

The war on drugs has provided police with cover for aggressive tactics and unnecessary encounters with citizens, according to Katharine Neill Harris, the Alfred C. Glassell, III, Fellow in Drug Policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

A graphic shows the process by which a Rice University lab uses 3D printing to make shapeshifting materials that may be useful to make soft robots or as biomedical implants. (Credit: Verduzco Laboratory/Rice University)

Lab makes 4D printing more practical

June 9, 2020

Soft robots and biomedical implants that reconfigure themselves upon demand are closer to reality with a method developed at Rice to print shapeshifting materials.

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