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Rice News Archive - 2024
Startups innovating the clean energy transition will showcase their technology at Sept. 12 Energy Tech Venture Forum Sep. 3, 2024
The Energy Tech Venture Forum (ETVF), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, will convene innovators and investors at a Sept. 12 conference to connect ventures with Houston’s energy ecosystem. The forum is an anchor event for the inaugural Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week, happening Sept. 9-13. This week is a city-wide initiative to bring together and celebrate the momentum in Houston driving the energy transition. Many events are hosted at the Ion, Houston’s innovation hub powered by Rice.
Rice lab develops protein assembly road map for gas vesicles Sep. 3, 2024
Rice bioengineers developed a road map for the protein-protein interactions that give rise to gas vesicles, naturally occurring nanobubbles with potential use in biomedical applications.
Rice football team honors Andrea Rodriguez Avila in season opener Sep. 3, 2024
The Rice football team sported stickers on its helmets with the initials “ARA” in honor of Andrea Rodriguez Avila in the team’s season opener against Sam Houston State.
‘A natural bridge’: Science and technology studies connect scientists, humanists Sep. 3, 2024
As a freshman at Rice University, Anna Tutuianu ’23 knew she wanted to study how research in biomedicine and biomedical technologies intersected with society and history.
Staff Spotlight: Carla Haskins Sep. 2, 2024
Staff Spotlight: Carla Haskins
Rice cracks top 10 for first time on Forbes’ top colleges list Aug. 30, 2024
This achievement marks the first time the university has landed in a top 10 spot on the list.
Dateline Rice for Aug. 30, 2024 Aug. 30, 2024
Dateline Rice for Aug. 30, 2024
New Rice research center takes on challenge to break down, replace ‘forever chemicals’ Aug. 30, 2024
Rice inaugurated a new research center dedicated to ‘forever chemicals’ on Wednesday during a visit to campus by representatives of the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center.
Dateline Rice for Aug. 30, 2024 Aug. 30, 2024
Dateline Rice for Aug. 30, 2024
‘An institutional investment’: Evolution and impact of Rice’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality Aug. 30, 2024
At a time when some states and public universities are eliminating gender, sexuality and related studies, Rice’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality stands strong as an example of interdisciplinary scholarship and advocacy.
Dateline Rice for Aug. 29, 2024 Aug. 29, 2024
Dateline Rice for Aug. 29, 2024
‘Brilliant and brave’: Rice remembers, mourns student Andrea Rodriguez Avila Aug. 29, 2024
The Rice community is mourning the tragic, violent loss of Andrea Rodriguez Avila, a Jones College junior remembered as a bright and dedicated young scholar with a promising future.
Interdisciplinary Rice graduate program earns $3M NSF grant Aug. 29, 2024
A research traineeship program developed by a team of Rice faculty led by Junichiro Kono has received an award of $3 million over five years from the National Science Foundation to equip a new generation of scientists and engineers with the skills needed to serve as leaders in quantum technology innovation.
Annual Rice event explores AI innovation in health care Aug. 29, 2024
Rice’s Ken Kennedy Institute is hosting the third annual AI in Health Conference Sept. 9-12 with themes this year including foundation models in medicine, LLM applications, AI in neuroscience and neurotechnology, digital twins in health care and patient engagement and equity in health AI.
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