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A Rice University model shows the predicted atmospheric concentration distribution in parts per billion of a downwind diesel plume in the hours after Hurricane Ike. Rice engineers modeled the hypothetical threats from toxins released when oil and chemical tankers in the Houston Ship Channel fail during a storm. (Credit: Rice University)

Failed storage tanks pose atmospheric risks during disasters

February 1, 2021

Rice engineers model hypothetical threats from toxins released when aboveground storage tanks fail during a storm.

Rice University’s Kuichang Zuo (left) and Qilin Li

Industrial-strength brine, meet your kryptonite

November 3, 2020

A thin coating of the 2D nanomaterial hexagonal boron nitride is the key ingredient in a cost-effective technology developed by Rice University engineers for desalinating industrial-strength brine.

The National Science Foundation renews the Rice-based Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center for five years. The Engineering Research Center is dedicated to enabling access to clean water around the world.

NSF renews Rice-based NEWT Center for water treatment

October 15, 2020

The National Science Foundation renews the Rice-based Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center for five years. The Engineering Research Center is dedicated to enabling access to clean water around the world.

Kalil Erazo and Satish Nagarajaiah

Civil engineers Nagarajaiah, Erazo awarded Takuji Kobori Prize

October 14, 2020

Research on earthquake protection system earns prestigious award from the International Association for Structural Control and Monitoring.

A weekly viral trend analysis based on data from wastewater treatment plants shows the city of Houston where the coronavirus is increasing and decreasing. (Courtesy of the Houston Health Department)

Rice helps give Houston early COVID-19 warnings

September 24, 2020

Scientists and statisticians at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering have worked long hours for months to help the city of Houston monitor the spread of COVID-19 through traces of the coronavirus found in wastewater treatment plants.

“Jim Blackburn and Isabelle Chapman’s ‘Virus Vigil Day 112: Mottled Duck’

'This Place Called Houston': Jim Blackburn hosts webinar on the city’s past, future

August 31, 2020

Jim Blackburn sees Houston as a perfect reflection of the 20th century, an emerging but disorganized city at the turn of one century that boomed into a diverse economic powerhouse by the next.

Rogers Partners design for Galveston Bay Park

Galveston Bay Park is a 'vision' of Houston's future

August 3, 2020

An ambitious plan to shield Houston from a devastating hurricane by creating Galveston Bay Park, a 10,000-acre public park on a chain of man-made islands, earned top honors in the international design competition Houston 2020 Visions.

An electron microscope image shows E. coli bacteria trapped by wrapped microspheres

Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap

July 20, 2020

A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the free-floating genes in wastewater treatment plants.

Urban crows, ducks and gulls are a potentially important reservoir of antimicrobial resistance genes, according to Rice University engineers who studied their droppings.

Bird droppings carry risk of antibiotic resistance

July 13, 2020

Rice University engineers analyze the droppings of urban birds and show persistent levels of antibiotic-resistant genes and bacteria that may be transferred to humans through the environment.

Hurricane Harvey as seen from the International Space Station on Aug. 28, 2017. (Photo courtesy of Randy Bresnik/NASA)

Future Texas hurricanes: Fast like Ike or slow like Harvey?

July 6, 2020

Climate change will make fast-moving storms more likely in late 21st-century Texas.

Naomi Halas is a Rice University engineer and chemist who's spent more than 25 years pioneering the use of light-activated nanomaterials.

Purifying water with a partly coated gold nanoparticle

June 22, 2020

Rice's Naomi Halas has collaborated with Yale University engineers on the creation of a light-activated nanoparticle for clearing water of pollutants. The research is part of an effort by NEWT, the Rice-based Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment.

Mask transposed over a model fo the corona virus

COVID-19 research funds back six new initiatives

May 8, 2020

Grants to Rice faculty will support diagnostic, environmental and social projects.

Superfund team

Rice faculty part of Baylor Superfund program

May 6, 2020

A $10 million federal grant establishes a center to study how toxic chemicals from Superfund sites impact preterm births.

A schematic representation of the hybrid water supply system developed by engineers at Rice University. The researchers suggest that delivering water to city dwellers can become far more efficient, and that it should involve a healthy level of recycled wastewater. (Credit: Lu Liu/Rice University)

Rice engineers: Make wastewater drinkable again

April 27, 2020

Delivering water to city dwellers can become far more efficient, according to Rice University researchers who say it should involve a healthy level of recycled wastewater.

A prototype face shield produced as part of a joint effort by the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership and Rice's Moody Center for the Arts. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

Rice reacts to critical shortage of COVID-19 protective gear

April 27, 2020

Rice is responding to the critical shortage of COVID-19 protective gear with creativity, generosity and tenacity.

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