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Google’s chief technologist delivers talk at Rice on role of AI in math and computer science research

April 15, 2026

Prabhakar Raghavan, chief technologist at Google, was the featured speaker in the Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture Series.

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RBL LLC launches Duracyte, advancing living pharmacy platform in Houston’s growing biotech hub

April 15, 2026

RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio dedicated to rapidly building companies based on breakthrough medical technologies, today announced the launch of Duracyte, a biotechnology company commercializing a pioneering class of implantable “biohybrid pharmacy” devices designed to produce therapeutic proteins continuously inside the human body.

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Rice bioengineer to lead national organization, advocate for research funding on Capitol Hill

April 14, 2026

The Rice bioengineering department helped host the annual meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, where two Rice faculty were inducted as Fellows and Michael King stepped in as president.

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AI spots hidden behavior patterns in self-organizing bacteria

April 13, 2026

A custom-built artificial intelligence system developed by Rice researchers helped uncover how bacterial communities self-organize.

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Senior Spotlight 2026: For this aspiring physician, computer science is ‘empowering’ asset

April 6, 2026

Rice senior Pankti Mehta is channeling her drive to improve how people access and experience health care by combining computer science with hands-on clinical insight.

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‘Perfectly symmetrical’ 2D perovskites boost energy transport

April 3, 2026

Rice scientists have created a new type of 2D semiconductor that comes closer than ever to a “perfect” crystal.

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‘Nothing short of fantastic’: US Rep. Babin, staff tour Rice labs during campus visit

April 3, 2026

Rep. Brian Babin (R-Woodville), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, visited Rice March 20 with a delegation of congressional staff to tour research facilities and learn about areas of focus across the university.

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Solving the oxygen problem in cell-based drug delivery

March 27, 2026

Rice researchers and collaborators have now successfully integrated solutions to several persistent challenges to implantable drug factories into a single device.

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Scalable platform sheds light on how cancer spreads

March 26, 2026

A new platform makes it easier to study metastasis and sheds light on how cancer clusters survive in the bloodstream when spreading from a primary tumor to other parts of the body.

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5 Rice researchers elected AAAS fellows

March 26, 2026

Five Rice professors, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Volker Rudolf, Edward Knightly, Marcia O’Malley and Ed Billups, have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Plasma and lemon juice: Milder method retrieves nearly 95% of critical minerals in battery waste

March 25, 2026

A 15-minute plasma pretreatment helped recover lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite from spent lithium-ion batteries, pointing to a lower-chemical, lower-energy approach to recycling.

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Boron arsenide semiconductor sets record in quantum vibrations

March 23, 2026

A new Rice study reports an unusual quantum coherence of phonons in cubic boron arsenide, a semiconductor with promising electronic and thermal properties.

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From climate storytelling to AI innovation: Rice researchers take on global challenges at SXSW

March 18, 2026

At this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Rice researchers explored how to close that gap, whether by rethinking how climate change is communicated or by accelerating scientific discovery through artificial intelligence.

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Thorny issue plaguing lithium-ion batteries laid bare in new study

March 12, 2026

Lithium-ion batteries could improve thanks to Rice researchers’ unprecedented measurements of lithium dendrites’ stiff, brittle behavior.

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Rice bioengineer awarded $2.2M for project to develop long-acting cell factory implants for HIV, malaria treatment and prevention

March 12, 2026

Rice's Omid Veiseh has been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the Gates Foundation to develop implantable cell factory platforms that can deliver therapeutic antibodies over extended periods.

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