Engineering

Yimo Han receives NSF CAREER Award

Rice materials scientist Yimo Han has won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to advance the use of complex 2D materials in flexible electronics, quantum computing and other applications.

DNA test could broaden access to cervical cancer screening

Rice bioengineers have demonstrated a low-cost, point-of-care DNA test for HPV infections that could make cervical cancer screening more accessible in low- and middle-income countries where the disease kills more than 300,000 women each year.

Nakhleh elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology

Rice Dean of Engineering Luay Nakhleh has been elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.

Rice and Texas partners’ energy transition proposal named semifinalist for major NSF Engines grant

A coalition between Rice University, the Greater Houston Partnership’s Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI) and four other leading Texas research universities has been named a semifinalist for the National Science Foundation Engines program.

Rice's Nai-Hui Chia awarded Google funding to study quantum simulations

Rice computer scientist Nai-Hui Chia has won a prestigious Google Scholar Award, which includes funding to further his research on the use of quantum computers to simulate quantum physical systems.

Order in chaos: Atmosphere’s Antarctic oscillation has natural cycle

Rice researchers have discovered a natural cycle that repeats every 150 days in the north-south oscillation of the Southern Hemisphere’s prevailing westerly winds.

Plasmonics conference showcases Rice for international audience

Some 250 researchers attended the 10th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP10) at Rice May 21-26.

Antonios Mikos wins European Society for Biomaterials award

Rice University bioengineer Antonios Mikos has won the 2023 International Award of the European Society for Biomaterials.

Rice U. grad student wins DOE research award

Winnie Shi, a Rice University chemical and biomolecular engineering graduate student, has been selected to participate in the Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program at the U.S. Department of Energy.

Rice U.’s Beatrice Rivière wins NSF grant

​​​​​​​Beatrice Rivière, Rice University’s Noah Harding Chair and professor of computational applied mathematics and operations research, has received a $2.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation in support of numerical mathematics and scientific computing training and research.

Flexible nanoelectrodes can provide fine-grained brain stimulation

Rice University engineers have developed ultraflexible implantable nanoelectrodes that can administer long-term, fine-grained brain stimulation.

Neuroengineering’s InterfaceRice 2023 conference draws 160-plus

More than 160 leaders in neurotechnology, neuroscience, neuroengineering and neurosurgery attended InterfaceRice 2023, the inaugural conference of the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative, May 18-19.

Rice mourns longtime Statistics professor and alumnus John Dobelman ’79

The Rice community is mourning the loss of Statistics professor and alumnus John Dobelman ’79, who died May 9 at age 65.

Rice U.’s Anastasios Kyrillidis wins Amazon Research Award

Anastasios Kyrillidis, Rice University’s Noah Harding Assistant Professor of Computer Science, won one of 79 Amazon Research Awards (ARA) with a project titled “Efficient and affordable transformers for distributed platforms.”

New priming method improves battery life, efficiency

Rice University engineers have developed a readily scalable method to optimize a silicon anode priming method that increases lithium-ion battery performance by 22% to 44%.