Q&A: How Rice and Houston Methodist are building the future of digital health
Ahead of the Houston Methodist-Rice University Digital Health Institute Summit Oct.8, Rice News spoke with institute leadership about the institute’s vision, its distinctive assets and the opportunities it opens for the future of health care.
Scientists uncover room-temperature route to improved light-harvesting and emission devices
A team of researchers from Rice and collaborators have found a way to make two different phonons in thin films of lead halide perovskite interact with light so strongly that they merge into entirely new hybrid states of matter.
Rice faculty and leadership highlighted cutting-edge research and national collaborations during the Research Frontiers Showcase in Washington, D.C., held one day ahead of the Owls’ Sept. 27 football game at Navy.
Rice, Houston Methodist launch NSF-funded program to build Texas’ digital health workforce
Rice’s Office of STEM Engagement, the Houston Methodist-Rice Digital Health Institute and Houston Methodist are launching a three-year program that equips Houston-area high school and community college students and the teachers who serve them with practical skills in biomedical hardware and artificial intelligence for health.
‘Rhythm beats volume’: How the brain keeps the world looking familiar
Rice scientists’ custom, large-scale neurorecording array sheds light on how the brain keeps the world looking familiar.
AI for ecology and conservation: New tools track ecosystem health
Rice's César A. Uribe is developing computational tools to help scientists better understand ecosystems with recent studies using AI to glean new insights from different kinds of ecological data — from African mammal food webs to tropical forest soundscapes.
Wireless implant network could transform cardiac, neurological care
Researchers at Rice and collaborators have developed a wireless network of miniature bioelectric implants that could transform treatment for heart failure, spinal cord injury and other chronic conditions. The system would integrate with patient anatomy easier than conventional medical implants, eliminating the need for batteries and invasive wiring.
Rice’s top innovation exec headed for University of Virginia
After more than a decade of outstanding leadership at Rice, Paul Cherukuri, the university’s top innovation executive, will be leaving his post to accept a position at the University of Virginia.
Rice Emerging Scholars Program prepares first-year students for STEM success
Rice’s campus was buzzing this summer as students in the Rice Emerging Scholars Program wrapped up six weeks of challenging courses, hands-on projects and community-building. The end-of-program events and presentations marked the culmination of a summer designed to prepare incoming first-year students — particularly those from under-resourced high schools — for the pace, depth and rigor of STEM majors at Rice.
Ripples of the future: Rice researchers unlock powerful form of quantum interference
Rice researchers have demonstrated a form of quantum interference two orders of magnitude greater than any previously reported.
Kavraki elected to European Academy of Sciences
Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences.
James F. Young, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, dies at 81
James F. Young, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at Rice, died May 18 in Hawaii. He was 81.
Internships and impact: How Rice students are shaping the world
Across the country and globe, Rice students are seizing hands-on roles with real stakes by interning in fields as diverse as offshore energy, arts education, global sports marketing and refugee housing.
No hype, just breakthroughs: Rice AI summit quietly makes waves in Paris
Some of the world’s top minds in machine learning, optimization and distributed systems gathered this summer in the heart of Paris.
Rice experts are available to comment on digital health topics, including AI, wearable and ingestible devices, imaging and robotics.
