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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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Rice University’s OpenStax partners with Microsoft for AI-enhanced learning

June 26, 2025

OpenStax, a provider of affordable instructional technologies and the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources, has partnered with Microsoft to integrate its trusted content into Microsoft’s latest learning innovation, Microsoft Learning Zone. Available on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft Learning Zone aims to provide educators and students with responsible AI technology and peer-reviewed educational content to support learning.

Rice adjunct professor Stephanie Leal mentoring graduate student Kayla Clark.

Music, memory and the power of emotion: Rice study reveals how music influences what we remember

June 25, 2025

Rice graduate student and adjunct assistant professor explores how music can help shape new memories.

David Abraham

Rice and Baylor College of Medicine host AI and health equity symposium

June 25, 2025

The “Synergizing AI, Digital Health and the Built Environment" symposium addressed the ways AI and digital health tools can enhance the built environment to help reduce health disparities. Community Health Symposium: AI, Digital Health and the Built Environment

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Rice researchers search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated particle

June 25, 2025

A new study led by Rice's Christopher Tunnell and Dorian Amaral sees the first direct search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated particle.

Kathryn Cavender

Rice salutes Cavender’s 30-plus year commitment, retirement

June 24, 2025

Kathryn Cavender, associate vice president of the campus safety department, was recently celebrated for her 34 years of service at Rice, shortly before she enters her retirement. More than 100 people joined a reception at the Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science to salute her dedication to the university and the people who fill its spaces.

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‘No one had done this before’: Art, science and the surprising versatility of boron nitride nanotubes

June 24, 2025

In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) — touted for their strength, thermal stability and insulating properties — can be coaxed into forming ordered liquid crystalline phases in water.

Mark Hensley

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.

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede

Rice recruits biophysicist to boost cancer research efforts

June 23, 2025

Rice’s Department of Chemistry will soon welcome Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede.

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Rice welcomes 3 new members to board of trustees

June 23, 2025

Rice University has appointed three distinguished alumni to its board of trustees.

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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.

Bill Barnett

Remembering E. William ‘Bill’ Barnett ’55: Visionary leader and former Rice Board chairman

June 23, 2025

Rice University is mourning the passing of E. William “Bill” Barnett ’55, an esteemed alumnus, former chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees and a transformative figure in the university’s modern history.

Pengcheng Dai

Physicists confirm elusive quantum spin liquid in new study

June 23, 2025

An international team of scientists led by Rice's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in a rare quantum spin liquid.

The Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives at Rice University welcomed four high school students June 9-13 as inaugural STJA Archival Fellows, offering them a unique, hands-on dive into the rich tapestry of Houston’s Jewish history.

Houston high schoolers uncover Jewish history through Rice’s South Texas Jewish Archives

June 18, 2025

The Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives at Rice welcomed four high school students June 9-13 as inaugural STJA Archival Fellows, offering them a unique, hands-on dive into the rich tapestry of Houston’s Jewish history.

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‘A transformational initiative’: Rice hosts college preparation camp for Houston youth

June 18, 2025

Rice hosted the 15th annual Texas Leadership Consortium Summer Youth Program June 9-13. This weeklong camp engaged 100 students from Houston area high schools and middle schools to provide life lessons and college readiness activities.

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