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‘Nothing short of fantastic’: US Rep. Babin, staff tour Rice labs during campus visit

April 3, 2026

Rep. Brian Babin (R-Woodville), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, visited Rice March 20 with a delegation of congressional staff to tour research facilities and learn about areas of focus across the university.

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Rice brings global AI dialogue to Paris

April 1, 2026

“Artificial intelligence is transforming the global economy and raising profound questions about how technology intersects with society,” said Caroline Levander, Rice’s vice president for global strategy.

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‘ENRON’ at Rice revisits corporate collapse, invites modern energy debate

April 1, 2026

The Olivier Award-nominated play traces the rise and fall of the Houston-based energy trading giant, translating complex financial systems into a fast-paced theatrical experience.

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In one of Africa’s most studied environmental crises, Rice team collecting and analyzing missing data

March 31, 2026

For more than a decade, Rice’s Frederi Viens has been studying Lake Chad, a vast freshwater lake in west-central Africa that borders Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

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Rice experts share sustainability strategies for Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale boom

March 30, 2026

A delegation of researchers from Rice’s WaTER Institute traveled to Argentina’s Neuquén province this month to help address a pressing question facing one of the world’s fastest-growing energy regions: how to balance rapid oil and gas development with long-term environmental sustainability.

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Senior Spotlight 2026: Marek at the helm of engineering and sailing

March 30, 2026

For Rice senior Leo Marek, engineering is about finding the small changes that make big systems run better.

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Solving the oxygen problem in cell-based drug delivery

March 27, 2026

Rice researchers and collaborators have now successfully integrated solutions to several persistent challenges to implantable drug factories into a single device.

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Scalable platform sheds light on how cancer spreads

March 26, 2026

A new platform makes it easier to study metastasis and sheds light on how cancer clusters survive in the bloodstream when spreading from a primary tumor to other parts of the body.

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5 Rice researchers elected AAAS fellows

March 26, 2026

Five Rice professors, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Volker Rudolf, Edward Knightly, Marcia O’Malley and Ed Billups, have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Plasma and lemon juice: Milder method retrieves nearly 95% of critical minerals in battery waste

March 25, 2026

A 15-minute plasma pretreatment helped recover lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite from spent lithium-ion batteries, pointing to a lower-chemical, lower-energy approach to recycling.

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Rice WaTER Institute and IDE Technologies collaborate to advance water treatment solutions

March 24, 2026

IDE Technologies, a world leader in desalination and advanced water treatment solutions, and Rice’s WaTER Institute, a multidisciplinary center advancing innovative water treatment technologies, energy transitions and resilient infrastructure, are proud to announce their strategic collaboration.

From left to right, AGILE team members Valerie Valentin, Saumya Chauhan and Lauren Walcott.

Rice students design realistic training model to improve uterine cancer biopsy access worldwide

March 24, 2026

For an interdisciplinary team of Rice undergraduates, improving global women’s health started with a pressing question: What does it take to make an essential cancer diagnostic procedure available worldwide?

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Rice students partner with city of Houston to tackle policy barriers for lifesaving mobile stroke units

March 23, 2026

In collaboration with the Houston Health Department, the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies recently hosted a two-part Mobile Stroke Unit Advocacy Hack-a-thon, inviting students to help solve one of the most pressing challenges facing this innovative technology.

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Boron arsenide semiconductor sets record in quantum vibrations

March 23, 2026

A new Rice study reports an unusual quantum coherence of phonons in cubic boron arsenide, a semiconductor with promising electronic and thermal properties.

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Harris County names Ship Channel Bridge for Rice mathematician Richard Tapia

March 20, 2026

In a unanimous vote, the Harris County Commissioners Court approved naming the Sam Houston Tollway Ship Channel Bridge in honor of Richard A. Tapia.

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