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Rice researchers lay groundwork for designer hybrid 2D materials

May 28, 2025

An international team of researchers led by Rice materials scientists has succeeded in creating a genuine 2D hybrid material called glaphene.

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New leash on life: Rice students design haptic vest for blind dogs

May 28, 2025

A team of engineering students at Rice designed an innovative wearable vest that helps blind dogs safely navigate their surroundings.

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Rice's SSPEED Center unveils Galveston Bay Park Plan: A comprehensive solution to hurricane storm surge threats

May 27, 2025

The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center at Rice, in collaboration with a team of experts, has developed the Galveston Bay Park Plan, an in-bay barrier and park system designed to provide enhanced storm surge protection and navigation and environmental benefits for the highly vulnerable west side of Galveston Bay.

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Rice method refines ultrapure diamond film fabrication for quantum and electronic applications

May 23, 2025

Rice researchers have developed a simpler and more effective technique to make ultrapure diamond films for quantum and electronic applications.

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‘Hopelessly attached’: Scientists discover new 2D material that sticks the landing

May 23, 2025

Researchers from Rice and Northwestern University discover new 2D material, confirming decade-old prediction.

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Rice experts equip Houston professionals with AI and machine learning training

May 22, 2025

Rice experts at the Ken Kennedy Institute who taught an intensive boot camp for data science practitioners and technical managers are available to address questions from the media related to their AI and ML expertise.

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Program in collaboration with area colleges empowers next generation of sustainability data scholars

May 21, 2025

This spring, 75 students from Lone Star College, San Jacinto Community College and Houston Community College met with Rice faculty, staff and graduate students five times over three months to explore how data science can be used to solve real-world sustainability challenges.

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From Rice to orbit: Student engineers build safer, low-cost satellite thruster

May 21, 2025

A team of Rice engineering students has designed and built a safer, low-cost propulsion module for small satellites.

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Forging a path to a sustainable carbon economy: Inside the vision of Rice’s Carbon Hub

May 21, 2025

As the world races to address the climate crisis, a coalition headquartered at Rice is taking a radically collaborative approach to one of the toughest challenges: how to decarbonize industry while at the same time boosting manufacturing, improving infrastructure and securing the supply chains for the energy and materials we rely on every day.

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Rice researchers engineer personalized treatments for movement impairments

May 20, 2025

Impaired neuromusculoskeletal function due to conditions such as stroke, osteoarthritis, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, limb amputation, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and cancer is a leading cause of disability.

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Rice to offer Bachelor of Science in artificial intelligence

May 20, 2025

To prepare the next generation of innovators and thought leaders in AI, Rice will offer a Bachelor of Science in AI beginning in the fall of 2025.

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Lydia Kavraki named University Professor, the highest faculty distinction at Rice

May 20, 2025

In a landmark moment for Rice, renowned computer scientist Lydia E. Kavraki has been named a University Professor, the institution’s highest academic rank. She becomes only the 11th person and the third woman in the university’s 112-year history to earn this prestigious title.

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Cushion Queens bring comfort to the commute: Rice students design mechanotherapeutic seat for bus drivers

May 19, 2025

Public transit operators keep cities moving, helping people get to work, attend medical appointments and access essential services. But while passenger safety is often in the spotlight, the health and well-being of drivers who spend long hours behind the wheel is frequently overlooked.

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Rice’s Mikos elected to the European Academy of Sciences

May 19, 2025

Rice bioengineer Antonios Mikos has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences, an international body that recognizes excellence in scientific research and technological innovation.

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Invisible currents at the edge: Rice research team shows how magnetic particles reveal a hidden rule of nature

May 19, 2025

Recently, a team of scientists and engineers at Rice discovered a phenomenon on a microscopic scale, where tiny magnetic particles driven by rotating fields spontaneously move along the edges of clusters driven by invisible “edge currents” that follow the rules of an unexpected branch of physics.

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