Vicky Yao wins CAREER Award
February 28, 2022
Computer scientist Vicky Yao has won an NSF CAREER Award to develop computational tools to analyze and interpret DNA methylation.
Gas flares tied to premature deaths
February 25, 2022
Rice engineers suggest that flaring of natural gas at oil and gas fields in the United States, primarily in North Dakota and Texas, contributed to dozens of premature deaths in 2019.
Bringing Brazil to the Bayou City
February 21, 2022
Rice welcomed large delegation from the Fulbright Commission in Brazil for week of workshops, tours
Xue Sherry Gao wins CAREER Award
February 21, 2022
Rice engineer Xue Sherry Gao has won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to create versatile new toolkits for controlling gene expression.
Marcia O’Malley named AIMBE fellow
February 21, 2022
Rice mechanical engineer Marcia O’Malley has been named an AIMBE fellow in recognition of her contributions to rehabilitation robotics, haptics and robotic surgery.
Inaugural class of Rice Innovation Fellows announced
February 17, 2022
The Provost’s Office and the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Lilie) have announced the inaugural class of Rice Innovation Fellows, a program that will provide educational and financial support to the next generation of scientist- and engineer-led spinout ventures.
CPRIT supports work on combo cancer therapy
February 17, 2022
Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao is developing a three-pronged attack on solid cancer tumors. The research now has the support of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Environmental champions win Rice grants
February 16, 2022
The Rice University Sustainable Futures Fund backs six projects to help bolster the planet’s environmental health.
Strong magnets put new twist on phonons
February 15, 2022
Phonons, quasiparticles in a crystal lattice that are usually hard to control by external fields, can be manipulated by a magnetic field -- but it takes a very strong magnet.
Richard Baraniuk named to National Academy of Engineering
February 10, 2022
Rice University engineer, OpenStax founder Richard Baraniuk is named a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Clearly, this heart beats strong
February 9, 2022
In time for Valentine’s Day, engineers at Rice University and Waseda University provide a realistic view of what happens inside a beating heart.
Anastasios Kyrillidis wins NSF CAREER Award
February 8, 2022
Rice computer scientist will explore the theory and design of non-convex optimization algorithms, which are increasingly important for machine learning.
Rice team’s mask strategy passes muster
February 7, 2022
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a team at Rice University went looking for and found a way to make standard surgical masks better at keeping out small airborne droplets that might contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Redistricting project wins Rice Datathon
February 3, 2022
Four Rice undergraduates top this year’s Rice Datathon with their analysis of Houston voting districts.
Matthew Jones wins NSF CAREER Award
February 3, 2022
Rice chemist Matthew Jones wins an NSF CAREER Award to study controlled growth of metallic nanoparticles for biomedicine, energy storage and computing.