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Doctoral alumna wins prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship
June 9, 2022
Doctoral graduate Natsumi Komatsu has been awarded a prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship
Rice physicist wins DOE early career award
June 7, 2022
Physicist Guido Pagano wins a prestigious Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy.
Bumps could smooth quantum investigations
June 6, 2022
Rice University materials theorists model a contoured surface overlaid with 2D materials and find it possible to control their electronic and magnetic properties. The discovery could simplify research into many-body effects, including quantum systems.
Zoghbi shares prestigious 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
June 1, 2022
Rice trustee Dr. Huda Zoghbi is a co-recipient of the prestigious 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Rice bids fond farewell to finance wizard Kathy Collins
May 30, 2022
One of the top administrators at Rice University never taught a class here, but grateful colleagues who joined together last week for a celebration of her long and distinguished career hailed her as nothing less than one of the great teachers and leaders on campus.
Cars could get a ‘flashy’ upgrade
May 26, 2022
Rice University chemists, working with the Ford Motor Company, processes waste plastic from end-of-life trucks into graphene for composite materials in new vehicles.
Rice to welcome four new trustees
May 23, 2022
Rice University will begin the next academic year with four new Board of Trustee members. Asuka Nakahara, Jeremy Thigpen, Claudia Gee Vassar and Lori Whitten will serve four-year terms beginning July 1.
Getting ourselves back to the garden
May 19, 2022
A prairie garden at Rice University demonstrates the benefits of replacing manicured lawns with resilient plants and grasses that need little maintenance and help protect the environment.
DAP array casts a wide net to fix mutations
May 19, 2022
Rice engineers introduce DAP, a streamlined CRISPR-based technology that can perform many genome edits at once to address polygenic diseases caused by more than one glitch.
Rice chemists skew the odds to prevent cancer
May 17, 2022
A theoretical framework by Rice University scientists shows how to increase the odds of identifying cancer-causing mutations before tumors take hold. They demonstrate that only a few energetically favorable pathways are likely to lead to cancer.