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Naomi Halas named University Professor

January 23, 2023

Rice University has promoted nanotechnology pioneer Naomi Halas to its highest academic rank, University Professor. Halas, a 33-year member of Rice’s faculty, becomes only the 10th person and second woman to earn the title in Rice’s 111-year history.

Eugene Ng, a Rice University professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Eugene Ng named IEEE Fellow

December 1, 2022

Eugene Ng, a professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, has been named an IEEE Fellow.

Two renowned Rice professors and a longtime backer win 2023 IEEE Awards.

IEEE honors Kavraki, Richards-Kortum, Truchard

November 30, 2022

Two renowned Rice University professors and a longtime backer have won prestigious honors in the 2023 IEEE Awards.

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Rice funds new research collaborations with Houston Methodist

November 14, 2022

Rice and Houston Methodist have awarded seed grants for research in robotics, imaging, cardiovascular bioengineering, and psychological and behavioral health.

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​​​​​​​Rice, Baylor to study how screen use affects young children

November 7, 2022

Rice engineers and Baylor College of Medicine researchers are studying how screen use affects young children.

Junichiro Kono

Rice wins Moore Foundation grant for quantum vacuum research

November 4, 2022

Junichiro Kono’s lab will study how matter and quantum vacuums become entangled thanks to a new grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

illustration of Rice's one-step catalytic conversion of hydrogen sulfide gas

New catalyst can turn smelly hydrogen sulfide into a cash cow

October 31, 2022

Rice engineers and scientists and collaborators have discovered an efficient, one-step process for converting hydrogen sulfide gas into clean-burning hydrogen fuel.

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People, papers and presentations for Oct. 31, 2022

October 31, 2022

Lydia Kavraki and Marcia O’Malley are among 35 scientists named Oct. 25 to a list of the world’s top women scientists in robotics, energy and science at the iROS Kyoto 2022 Conference in Japan.

Risk-limiting audits that effectively verify the results of an election are under-utilized in the United States.

Confirming election results possible with risk-limiting audits

October 24, 2022

Risk-limiting audits that effectively verify the results of an election are underutilized in the United States.

Pioneers of Engineering fireside chat

Rice U. alums share Fortune 500 experience during ‘Pioneers of Innovation’ chat

October 24, 2022

Two Rice alums were welcomed back to campus last week by Rice University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at “Pioneers of Innovation: A Fireside Chat.” Maxfield and Walter Loewenstern ’58 ’59 engaged in a discussion moderated by Edward Knightly, the Sheafor-Lindsay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of computer science.

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People, papers and presentations for Oct. 24, 2022

October 24, 2022

Naomi Halas, the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy and of materials science and nanoengineering and the director of Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute, touted the findings of a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office study on women inventors Oct. 19 in Houston as part of the Society of Women Engineers’ annual meeting.

Rice University neuroengineers (from left) Hanlin Zhu, Chong Xie and Lan Luan

Engineers explore the source of dreams and thoughts

October 19, 2022

Rice neuroengineers created a 3D electrode array that can identify up to 1 million potential synapses in the brain.

Halas, Nordlander at 2022 Eni Awards ceremony in Rome

Halas, Nordlander honored in Rome

October 10, 2022

Italian President Sergio Mattarella presented Rice’s Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander the 2022 Eni Energy Transition Award in an Oct. 3 ceremony in Rome's Quirinal Palace.

Geoff Wehmeyer, Rice assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is pictured posing for a portrait.

Wehmeyer team receives $1.5 million NSF grant

September 19, 2022

A team of researchers headed by Geoff Wehmeyer, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Rice, has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) program to support work on large-scale materials made from oriented carbon nanotubes.

Engineers at Rice University find a way to identify nanophotonic materials with the potential to improve screens for virtual reality and 3D displays along with optical technologies in general.

Optical rule was made to be broken

September 12, 2022

Engineers at Rice University find a way to identify nanophotonic materials with the potential to improve screens for virtual reality and 3D displays along with optical technologies in general.

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