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Electrical fingerprint on tiny cell particles could offer new way to spot pancreatic cancer signals

September 9, 2026

Rice researchers have developed a device that separates particles, making cancer-associated signals more visible.

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Rice celebrates Kavraki, Richards-Kortum for rare ‘triple crown’ achievement

September 2, 2026

Lydia Kavraki and Rebecca Richards-Kortum are the first two faculty members in Rice history to be elected to all three U.S. national academies — the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine.

Guha Balakrishnan

Rice project aims to reinvent cameras with generative AI

September 1, 2026

Rice has received an NSF award to develop artificial intelligence-powered cameras.

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Rice’s Akane Sano named to inaugural class of Chief of Naval Research Fellows

August 31, 2026

Rice's Akane Sano has been selected for the first class of the Chief of Naval Research Fellows program.

Shengxi Huang

Rice’s Huang elected fellow of SPIE for contributions to optics and photonics

August 12, 2026

Shengxi Huang was elected this month as a fellow of SPIE.

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Rice to lead $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications

August 4, 2026

Rice will lead a $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications.

A picture of a pressurized rover at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Team OWL SUITS was assigned to develop a pressurized rover interface for a simulated lunar mission scenario (Credit: Israel Cantu).

Rice students help NASA imagine future of lunar exploration through SUITS challenge

July 24, 2026

Rice’s OWL SUITS team, led by members of the Rice Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Club, was selected for NASA SUITS, a national software design challenge that invites college students to develop interface solutions for future human spaceflight.

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Rice and NASA launch world’s first open-source remote space robotics simulator 

July 6, 2026

Researchers at NASA and Rice have launched the the world’s first open-source dynamic simulation environment to develop robots used in space vehicles and indoor space habitats.

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New detector design has potential to expand search for dark matter

July 1, 2026

Rice researchers’ detector concept uses engineered semiconductor materials to search for axions in a range of possible masses that has remained difficult to probe with existing experiments.

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Listening through a network: A new view of how the cochlea processes sound

June 29, 2026

Rice researchers developed a new way to model how the cochlea processes incoming sound using graph signal processing, which could shed light on what happens as hearing deteriorates with age and make possible better assistive technologies for people with hearing loss.

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How do bilingual brains navigate between languages? Scientists discover ‘geometric neural map’

June 24, 2026

A new study by researchers at Rice and Baylor reveals that the brain maintains a geometric neural “map” for meaning that allows multilingual speakers to express themselves across languages.

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Digital Health Institute welcomes French delegation to explore pathways to collaboration

June 22, 2026

The Houston Methodist-Rice Digital Health Institute recently welcomed Frank Marchetti, Consul General of France in Houston, and his team to discuss health care innovation and avenues for international collaboration.

Rodrigo Ferreira speaking at the Human Flourishing in the Age of AI conference

AI crashed a Paris wine tasting and that was the point

June 15, 2026

The ‘Human Flourishing in the Age of AI’ conference tackles how AI is quietly reshaping what it means to live a fully human life.

Reginald DesRoches shaking hands with IIT Bombay leader

Rice delegation forges new research ties across India and Singapore, broadening Rice Global India’s sphere of influence

June 12, 2026

Over the course of seven days, Rice’s presidential delegation crossed two countries and held meetings with many prominent universities, research institutions and government leaders. 

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Converting matte surfaces into virtual screens enhances machine vision

June 9, 2026

Rice researchers and collaborators developed a computational imaging method that uses a laser and a high-speed camera to capture complex scenes in three dimensions with exceptional speed and accuracy.

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