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Rice researchers earn prestigious Defense Department grants

Rice professors Qimiao Si and Jeffrey Tabor are recipients of prestigious 2023 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowships from the Department of Defense.

Michael Wong named fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Rice University’s Michael Wong was named a fellow to the Royal Society of Chemistry, the oldest chemical society in the world, whose mission is to “advance excellence in the chemical sciences.”

Asteroid named for Rice planetary scientist

An asteroid has been named for Rice planetary scientist André Izidoro, a newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences.

NIH grant backs Rice lab’s sickle cell disease research

Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao and his team have won a grant from the National Institutes of Health to address critical questions surrounding the safety and efficacy of using gene editing to treat sickle cell disease.

Computer Science’s Vardi wins four prestigious scientific awards

Renowned Rice University computer scientist, mathematician and University Professor Moshe Vardi is on a roll, garnering four prestigious awards in automata theory and automated reasoning within the past four weeks.

Rice wins award for expanding international education

The Institute for International Education has honored Rice University with one of its 2023 IIE Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education. Awarded in the category of “Widening Access for International Education,” Rice received the honor for the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS)-sponsored Global Rice Empowers Academics and Training (GREAT) Project.

Rice U. physicist to lead world’s longest-running nuclear collider experiment

Rice U. Frank Geurts has been named co-spokesperson of STAR, the world’s longest-running particle collider experiment.

Rice U.’s Songtao Chen wins NSF CAREER Award

Songtao Chen, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to advance the development of quantum networks by leveraging point defects in silicon.

Kyrillidis wins grant to address AI’s ‘catastrophic forgetting’

Rice computer scientist Anastasios Kyrillidis has won a Microsoft Research Award to find ways to overcome the problem of “catastrophic forgetting” during the training of artificial intelligence.

Yimo Han receives NSF CAREER Award

Rice materials scientist Yimo Han has won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to advance the use of complex 2D materials in flexible electronics, quantum computing and other applications.

Nakhleh elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology

Rice Dean of Engineering Luay Nakhleh has been elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.

Rice U. chemist leverages heterogeneity for insight into catalysis, cancer initiation

Rice U. chemist Anatoly Kolomeisky has won a National Science Foundation award to study the role of heterogeneity in chemical and biological processes.

Rice anthropologist Dominic Boyer elected to executive board of American Anthropological Association

Dominic Boyer, a professor of anthropology in the School of Social Sciences at Rice University, has been elected to the executive board of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

Rice's Nai-Hui Chia awarded Google funding to study quantum simulations

Rice computer scientist Nai-Hui Chia has won a prestigious Google Scholar Award, which includes funding to further his research on the use of quantum computers to simulate quantum physical systems.

NIH grant backs study focused on Alzheimer’s in women

Rice University postdoctoral fellow Hannah Ballard has won a three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the link between the transition to menopause and Alzheimer’s disease.