Three Rice students receive Hertz Fellowships
The Hertz Fellowship is as prestigious as it is selective: Only 16 fellows each year are admitted to the program, which funds five years of graduate research and offers lifelong professional support through the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.
Rice's COVID-19 research fund awards final grants
The Rice University COVID-19 Research Fund Oversight and Review Committee funds nine more faculty teams working to mitigate the effects of the new coronavirus.
Ocean virus hijacks carbon-storing bacteria
Rice scientists are analyzing the role of ferredoxin proteins produced when viral phages alter electron transfer in ocean-dwelling bacteria that produce oxygen and store carbon.
Kavraki earns top computer science honor
Rice computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has been honored for her foundational contributions to the discipline with this year’s ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award.
Tools for space are food for thought on Earth
Rice University student teams present their 3D tool database designs to NASA and help spread the word to high schoolers about the value of a STEM education.
COVID-19 research funds back six new initiatives
Grants to Rice faculty will support diagnostic, environmental and social projects.
Rice faculty part of Baylor Superfund program
A $10 million federal grant establishes a center to study how toxic chemicals from Superfund sites impact preterm births.
Hidden symmetry found in chemical kinetic equations
Rice University researchers have discovered a hidden symmetry in the chemical kinetic equations scientists have long used to model and study many of the chemical processes essential for life.
Almost gone but never forgotten
Julianne Yost wins this year’s top teaching award, the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Rice reacts to critical shortage of COVID-19 protective gear
Rice is responding to the critical shortage of COVID-19 protective gear with creativity, generosity and tenacity.
Rice wins federal grant to advance sickle cell disease therapy
A Rice University lab has won a prestigious National Institutes of Health grant to pursue gene-editing research it hopes will lead to a cure for sickle cell disease (SCD).
Rice awards first COVID-19 research grants
The Rice University COVID-19 Research Fund Oversight and Review Committee announced it will support projects to develop affordable diagnostic tools, seals to maximize the efficiency of surgical masks, a system to identify signs of the coronavirus in Houston wastewater and methods to ensure voter safety this fall.
As part of a coordinated effort to combat COVID-19, Rice University has established a research accelerator fund to support projects intended to help end the pandemic and prepare for similar outbreaks in the future.
