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Eco-efficient cement could pave the way to a greener future

March 28, 2023

Rice U. scientists develop process to remove toxic heavy metals from coal fly ash, making for greener, stronger concrete.

SSPEED-hosted flood-defense technology demo March 7, 2023

SSPEED-hosted demo featured water-inflatable flood barriers

March 13, 2023

Large, water-inflatable barriers were featured in a March 7 demonstration of flood-defense technologies hosted by Rice’s SSPEED Center.

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Wastewater study monitors Houston schools for viral threats

March 1, 2023

A new study by Rice University and the Houston Health Department finds that wastewater-based monitoring is an effective way to detect viral outbreaks in schools.

Lauren Sadler has won an NSF CAREER Award

Lauren Stadler has won an NSF CAREER Award

February 21, 2023

Engineering’s Lauren Stadler has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to improve wastewater treatment by harnessing the power of microbiomes.

LAB NOTES

Lab Notes for Jan. 30, 2023

January 30, 2023

STAT’s Hopkins co-authors National Academies report. CAREER Awards keep coming. DOE funds NEWT desalination research.

Jamie Padgett wins 2023 O'Donnell Award for research in engineering

Rice’s Jamie Padgett wins Texas academy’s O’Donnell Award

January 17, 2023

Rice University structural engineer Jamie Padgett has received the 2023 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas.

Rice University engineers compare wastewater ‘snapshots’ to daylong composite samples and find snapshots lead to bias in testing for the presence of antibiotic-resistant genes.

Daylong wastewater samples yield surprises

December 19, 2022

Rice engineers find snapshots lead to bias in testing wastewater for antibiotic-resistant genes.

Rice University engineer Jamie Padgett is one of five United States researchers to be named a National Science Foundation BRITE Fellow.

Padgett named NSF BRITE Fellow

December 9, 2022

Rice University engineer Jamie Padgett is one of five United States researchers to be named a National Science Foundation BRITE Fellow.

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Strategic planning process to be launched in January

November 22, 2022

President Reginald DesRoches shared the news with the Rice community in an email Nov. 21.

Pedro Alvarez, Michael Wong, Shell’s Mike Reynolds share honor for project to remediate, reuse fracking water

ACS taps Rice, Shell for Partners in Progress & Prosperity Award

November 16, 2022

Collaborators at Rice and Shell receive the American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Partners in Progress & Prosperity Award.

Rice University faculty members have installed “Building Ecologies” at Post Houston to demonstrate a “circular” strategy that incorporates environmental systems into architecture.

Cool respite with a conscience

November 11, 2022

Rice faculty members have installed “Building Ecologies” at Post Houston to demonstrate a “circular” strategy that incorporates environmental systems into architecture.

Rice University scientists and engineers develop programmable bacteria that sense contaminants and release an electronic signal in real time.

Bacterial sensors send a jolt of electricity when triggered

November 2, 2022

Rice researchers develop programmable bacteria that sense contaminants and release an electronic signal in real time.

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NSF backs bid to speed environmental tests for viruses

October 11, 2022

The NSF backs Rice University efforts to speed the analysis of wastewater for coronaviruses from hours to seconds.

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Rice rises to No. 15 in US News rankings

September 12, 2022

Rice has risen to No. 15 among the nation’s top universities ranked in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook.

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People, papers and presentations for Sept. 12, 2022

September 12, 2022

Rice statisticians Katherine Ensor and Loren Hopkins and civil and environmental engineer Lauren Stadler are co-authors of a commentary in Nature Medicine that issues an urgent call to scale up wastewater monitoring to detect early signs of disease.

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