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Phil Bedient speaking at SSPEED Center's post-Harvey conference April 28, 2022

SSPEED Center’s post-Harvey conference draws more than 150

May 2, 2022

More than 150 people attended the SSPEED Center’s April 28-29 conference on on “Post-Harvey Climate and Flood Impacts on the Built Environment.”

NSF Fellowship winners Take the Cake

NSF awards 38 Graduate Research Fellowships to Rice students

April 22, 2022

The National Science Foundation has awarded 38 Graduate Research Fellowships to Rice University students.

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NSF backs study of Mississippi River’s response to climate change

April 4, 2022

Rice climate scientists and engineers are studying how climate change will impact Mississippi River flooding.

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US News grad school rankings give high marks to Rice programs

March 30, 2022

A total of 19 graduate programs at Rice University rank among the nation's top 25 in their categories in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”

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Wind, solar could replace coal power in Texas

March 21, 2022

A fraction of the wind and solar projects already proposed in Texas could eliminate the state’s remaining coal power plants and their emissions, according to Rice University engineers.

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Gas flares tied to premature deaths

February 25, 2022

Rice engineers suggest that flaring of natural gas at oil and gas fields in the United States, primarily in North Dakota and Texas, contributed to dozens of premature deaths in 2019.

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Inaugural class of Rice Innovation Fellows announced

February 17, 2022

The Provost’s Office and the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Lilie) have announced the inaugural class of Rice Innovation Fellows, a program that will provide educational and financial support to the next generation of scientist- and engineer-led spinout ventures.

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Environmental champions win Rice grants

February 16, 2022

The Rice University Sustainable Futures Fund backs six projects to help bolster the planet’s environmental health.

Microscopic glass spheres found in coal fly ash contain rare earth elements that could be recycled rather than buried in landfills, according to Rice University scientists. Their flash Joule heating process has been adapted to recover the elements.

Rare earth elements await in waste

February 9, 2022

Rice University scientists applied their flash Joule heating process to coal fly ash and other toxic waste to safely extract rare earth elements essential to modern electronics and green technologies.

Small cracks in a stressed, painted cement block are barely visible under ambient lighting (left panel) but show up clearly in the near-infrared image at right.

Now you don’t see it … and now you do

January 25, 2022

Scientists and engineers from Rice University and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research discover fluorescence from silicon nanoparticles in cement and show how it can be used to reveal early signs of damage in concrete structures.

students and faculty from COVID-19 research group

Black and Hispanic communities bore disproportionate share of Texas’ early COVID-19 deaths

January 23, 2022

Texas state officials did not publish the race and ages of COVID-19 victims in early 2020, but a county-level statistical analysis spearheaded by Rice University undergraduates in collaboration with university faculty has found deaths statewide were disproportionately concentrated in Black and Hispanic communities.

Bridge columns

New models assess bridge support repairs after earthquakes

January 18, 2022

Civil engineers develop a computational modeling strategy to help plan effective repairs to damaged reinforced concrete columns.

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Rice’s Technology Development Fund backs faculty projects

December 10, 2021

Nine projects proposed by Rice researchers have been granted seed funding by Creative Ventures' Technology Development Fund.

Microplastics adsorbing phages

Microplastic pollution aids antibiotic resistance

December 2, 2021

Microplastics dispersed in the environment may enhance antibiotic resistance. A study led by Rice University found the chemical-leaching plastics draw bacteria and other vectors and make them susceptible to antibiotic resistant genes.

Jacqueline Couti and Reginald DesRoches at the In the Path of Disaster conference Nov. 19

Rice conference on natural disasters draws international panelists, attendees

November 22, 2021

The Nov. 19-20 conference focused on narratives around natural catastrophes in the Americas and Circum-Caribbean

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