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Charles Davis turns childhood memories into a career Mar. 5, 2020

Dateline Rice for March 5, 2020 Mar. 5, 2020

Daphnia, a species of plankton, were exposed to molecular machines developed at Rice University in lab experiments to determine the effects of the microscopic drills on tissue. At left is a healthy plankton with all of its appendages. At right, the daphnia has only two of its appendages after 10 minutes of exposure to light-activated nanomachines. The drills are intended to target drug-resistant bacteria, cancer and other disease-causing cells and destroy them without damaging adjacent healthy cells. (Credi

Tissue-digging nanodrills do just enough damage Mar. 5, 2020

Scientists at Rice and their collaborators show light-activated molecular drills effectively kill cells in whole eukaryotic organisms.

The zooplankton Daphnia dentifera, as seen under a microscope. (Image courtesy of Meghan Duffy/University of Michigan)

Scientists create model to predict multipathogen epidemics Mar. 5, 2020

In one of the first studies of its kind, bioscientists from Rice University and the University of Michigan have shown how to use the interactions between pathogens in individual hosts to predict the severity of multipathogen epidemics.

Two dimensional drawing of the Lucian and Nancy Morrison Theater in Brockman Hall for Opera.

New Rice University music building to be named Brockman Hall for Opera Mar. 4, 2020

Rice University's new music building will be named Brockman Hall for Opera and the 84,000-square-foot structure, along with Alice Pratt Brown Hall and its adjoining plaza, will be christened the Brockman Music and Performing Arts Center.

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Paul Celan conference brings international experts on poetry to Rice Mar. 4, 2020

As one of the most important and influential poets of the 20th century, Paul Celan’s life and work reflect a central ethical and literary concern of his own time: “Can one still write poetry after Auschwitz?”

Atoms of boron and nitride align on a copper substrate to create a large-scale, ordered crystal of hexagonal boron nitride. The wafer-sized material could become a key insulator in future two-dimensional electronics. (Credit: Tse-An Chen/Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.)

A small step for atoms, a giant leap for microelectronics Mar. 4, 2020

Rice materials scientist Boris Yakobson and colleagues in Taiwan and China report in Nature on making large single-crystal sheets of hexagonal boron nitride, touted as a key insulator in future two-dimensional electronics.

Doerr Institute’s Kolditz honored at West Point Mar. 3, 2020

Tom Kolditz, the founding director of Rice’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders, recently received a Distinguished Former Faculty Award from the U.S. Military Academy.

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Vaping bans are ineffective, say Baker Institute experts Mar. 3, 2020

HOUSTON -- (March 3, 2020) – Vaping products have contributed to a decline in cigarette smoking but have increased the number of middle and high school students who are addicted to nicotine — a problem that can only be effectively addressed through regulation of advertising — according to drug policy experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Rice satellite OwlSat set to launch in 2022 Mar. 2, 2020

OwlSat, a small research satellite designed by Rice University students to monitor ultraviolet radiation, is set to launch into orbit in 2022.

Mitzvah Marathon lights up campus Mar. 2, 2020

Stem cell therapies' promise, perils in focus at Rice's Baker Institute Mar. 2, 2020

HOUSTON – (March 2, 2020) – A panel of experts will gather at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy to discuss the stem cell therapy landscape. The experts will highlight the treatments available today, describe why even negative clinical data can lead to new interventions and evaluate recent incidents of unregulated stem cell use harming patients.

Wish you were here Mar. 2, 2020

A new location for the annual Study Abroad Photo Contest saw the yearly exhibition inside Brochstein Pavilion Feb. 28,