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Ching Xie

Rice neuroscientists to build state-of-the-art neural recording system

July 17, 2024

Rice neural engineer Chong Xie and his team have won a $2.9 million R01 grant from the NIH to develop a state-of-the-art implantable neural electrode system that is highly biocompatible, untethered and capable of stable, long-term and large-scale neural recording and stimulation.

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Future of bioelectronics takes center stage at Rice Global Paris event

July 16, 2024

The Rice Global Paris Center hosted the BioElectronic Therapeutics (BETx) conference and workshop June 27-28, the first formal event dedicated to the field of bioelectronics to be held at Rice’s Paris campus.

Gustavo Scuseria

Rice chemist Gustavo Scuseria wins 2024 Schrödinger Medal

May 20, 2024

Pioneering Rice chemist Gustavo Scuseria has won the 2024 Schrödinger Medal from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.

Peter Wolynes

Rice study reveals insights into protein evolution

May 13, 2024

Rice University’s Peter Wolynes and his research team have unveiled a breakthrough in understanding how specific genetic sequences, known as pseudogenes, evolve. Their paper was published May 13 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal.

Jun Kono

Junichiro Kono tapped to lead Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute

March 28, 2024

Rice University’s Junichiro Kono has assumed leadership of the Smalley-Curl Institute, named for Nobel Laureates Richard Smalley and Robert Curl ’54 and home to some of the world’s most accomplished researchers in nanoscience, quantum science and materials science.

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Rice research shows promise for advancing quantum networks

March 28, 2024

Rice engineers have demonstrated a way to control the optical properties of an atomic imperfection in silicon material known as a T center by embedding it in a photonic integrated circuit and exploiting the Purcell effect to strengthen light-matter interaction and increase the rate of spontaneous emission.

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Electronic pathways may enhance collective atomic vibrations’ magnetism

December 15, 2023

A new study from Rice’s RAMBO laboratory and collaborators suggests the magnetism of phonons, collective atomic vibrations, is enhanced by electronic pathways.

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Rice hosts International Workshop on Quantum Vacuum in Matter

November 10, 2023

Rice recently hosted the first International Workshop on Quantum Vacuum in Matter, an event that brought together leading experts in the field from around the world to discuss recent advances, discoveries and research priorities.

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Atomic dance gives rise to a magnet

November 9, 2023

Rice researchers turned a paramagnetic material into a magnet by manipulating electrons’ spin via atomic motion.

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Lab Notes for Sept. 11, 2023

September 11, 2023

SCI Summer Research Colloquium awards; Applied physics students study in France

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32 Rice students, alums win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

April 17, 2023

The National Science Foundation has awarded Graduate Research Fellowships to 32 current, incoming and former Rice students, and selected another six for honorable mention.

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Rice team begins ambitious quantum entanglement research

February 21, 2023

A Rice research team has begun an ambitious three-year project to see quantum entanglement among billions of particles in a solid material thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the Keck Foundation.

Naomi Halas

Naomi Halas named University Professor

January 23, 2023

Rice University has promoted nanotechnology pioneer Naomi Halas to its highest academic rank, University Professor. Halas, a 33-year member of Rice’s faculty, becomes only the 10th person and second woman to earn the title in Rice’s 111-year history.

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Inner ear has a need for speed

January 17, 2023

Rice bioengineers and applied physicists, together with and colleagues at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago, have unlocked the mechanism of the fastest synapses in the human body. A previously hidden mechanism in the inner ear that helps mammals balance via the fastest-known signal in the brain, and researchers from Rice University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago have modeled a hidden mechanism in the inner ear that helps mammals balance via the fastest-known signal in the brain.

Junichiro Kono

Rice wins Moore Foundation grant for quantum vacuum research

November 4, 2022

Junichiro Kono’s lab will study how matter and quantum vacuums become entangled thanks to a new grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

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