Self-navigating catamaran can carry cargo into war zones
A self-navigating, cargo-carrying sailboat designed by Rice University engineering students could be a sustaining link for Marines hunkered down on shore during war.
32 Rice students, alums win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The National Science Foundation has awarded Graduate Research Fellowships to 32 current, incoming and former Rice students, and selected another six for honorable mention.
Team OR Lights wins Rice’s 2023 Engineering Design Showcase
Team OR Lights captured the top prize at this year’s Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase, presented annually by Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK).
Sensor system could decrease fall risk for older adults
A team of Rice University engineering students designed a fall-risk assessment system that enables doctors to create personalized risk-management strategies for patients based on their individual movement patterns at home.
Rice U. students engineer socks for on-the-go neuropathy treatment
A wearable electrical-stimulation and vibration-therapy system designed by Rice University engineering students might be just what the doctor ordered for people experiencing foot pain and balance loss due to diabetic neuropathy.
Rice U. engineering students aim to shed better light on surgeries
A team of Rice University engineering students designed a tunable lighting system that would allow surgeons to better illuminate their working area without having to handle equipment or wear headlamps.
Nanophotonics pioneer Naomi Halas celebrated as newest University Professor
Rice celebrated Naomi Halas’ promotion to University Professor, the institution’s highest academic rank, during a presentation and reception March 22.
Rice class decodes the history of human-computer interaction
Elizabeth Petrick, associate professor in Rice University’s Department of History, recently held a workshop class that examined the history of human-computer interaction.
Rice’s Cherukuri, Robinson to speak at SXSW
Rice University Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jacob Robinson and Vice President for Innovation Paul Cherukuri will speak at the upcoming South by Southwest Conference in Austin.
Rice University joins national semiconductor research effort
Rice University is one of 14 academic institutions to join the Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems, a $32.7 million project created by the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0.
Rice senior Joseph Asfouri awarded prestigious Churchill Scholarship
Rice senior and electrical engineering and neuroscience student Joseph Asfouri is one of a select few American students to have been awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship at the University of Cambridge. Asfouri is Rice's second Churchill Scholar in nearly three decades.
Rice team begins ambitious quantum entanglement research
A Rice research team has begun an ambitious three-year project to see quantum entanglement among billions of particles in a solid material thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the Keck Foundation.
Rice U.’s Taiyun Chi wins NSF CAREER Award
Taiyun Chi, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to research the development of a high-performance neural interface and a noninvasive deep-brain-stimulation system.
Rice joins neutrino megaproject. Engineering launches energy transition initiative. McHugh lands cancer research grant. Keck Foundation funds quantum research. West named Cottrell Scholar.
Naomi Halas named University Professor
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.