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Computational biochemist joins Rice with CPRIT recruitment award

June 30, 2025

Computational biochemist Linna An will join Rice’s Department of Biosciences with support from a $2 million award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

Mario Escobar

Rice bioengineer looks to mitochondria as key to heart failure recovery

June 30, 2025

Rice bioengineer Mario Escobar has won a Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association to develop a new therapy for heart failure.

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Mark Hensley joins RBL LLC as a senior adviser

June 24, 2025

RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio designed to rapidly build companies based on lifesaving medical technologies, today announced the addition of Mark Hensley as a senior adviser.

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Near-perfect defects in 2D material could serve as quantum bits

June 23, 2025

Researchers at Rice and collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Technology, Sydney report the first demonstration of low noise, room-temperature quantum emitters in h-BN made through a scalable growth technique.

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Rice scientists harness vacuum fluctuations to engineer quantum materials

June 17, 2025

Rice researchers and collaborators have developed a new cavity design that selectively enhances the quantum vacuum fluctuations of circularly polarized light in a single direction, achieving chirality — a feat that typically requires the use of a strong magnetic field.

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RBL LLC welcomes James Watson to board of directors

June 17, 2025

RBL LLC announced the appointment of James Watson to its board of directors.

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Rice and Houston Methodist name Chatterjee executive director of the Digital Health Institute

June 13, 2025

The Digital Health Institute — a recently launched joint initiative between Rice University and Houston Methodist — has appointed Pothik Chatterjee as its executive director, effective May 1.

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Biotechnology governance entreaties released, echoing legacy of 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines

June 13, 2025

Twenty-seven biotechnology governance entreaties echoing the legacy of the 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines are now available for public review.

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Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative kicks off seminar series with Nobel laureate James Allison

June 12, 2025

The Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative launched its inaugural seminar June 3 with an invited talk from Nobel laureate James P. Allison.

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Nvidia CEO says quantum is next AI frontier — Rice experts weigh in

June 11, 2025

Rice experts can unpack and contextualize Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's statement at the VivaTech 2025 conference in Paris today that quantum computing is reaching an inflection point

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Rice students develop an award-winning adaptive exercise harness for astronauts to use in space

June 11, 2025

A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables Workshop and University Challenge. Their design answered a challenge posed by the HumanWorks Lab and Life Science Labs at NASA and Johnson Space Center.

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Rethinking how robots move: Light and AI drive precise motion in soft robotic arm developed at Rice

June 9, 2025

Researchers at Rice have developed a soft robotic arm capable of performing complex tasks such as navigating around an obstacle or hitting a ball, guided and powered remotely by laser beams without any onboard electronics or wiring.

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Engineered with heart: Student-designed device could streamline imaging for cardiac procedures

June 4, 2025

A team of six Rice students developed a device that holds and stabilizes an intracardiac echocardiography catheter during heart procedures, allowing the primary physician to maintain precise control of the catheter without needing a second set of hands.

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Rice researchers lay groundwork for designer hybrid 2D materials

May 28, 2025

An international team of researchers led by Rice materials scientists has succeeded in creating a genuine 2D hybrid material called glaphene.

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New leash on life: Rice students design haptic vest for blind dogs

May 28, 2025

A team of engineering students at Rice designed an innovative wearable vest that helps blind dogs safely navigate their surroundings.

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