Griffin named interim engineering dean
March 26, 2020
Rob Griffin, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and senior associate dean for the Brown School of Engineering, will begin serving as the school’s interim dean July 1.
Rice professors named AIMBE fellows
March 26, 2020
Two Rice University faculty members have been named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
People, papers and presentations Mar 23, 2020
March 23, 2020
Heart nanofibers in STAT Madness quarterfinals
March 20, 2020
Texas Heart Institute and Rice University’s heart-saving nanotube fibers have advanced to the quarterfinal round of STAT Madness.
In response to COVID-19, OpenStax sees surge in new users
March 20, 2020
In response to COVID-19, a surge of new students, faculty and schools are signing up to use free online texts and learning materials from Rice-based publisher OpenStax.
Kaarthika Thakker programs computers and radio at Rice
March 19, 2020
Bioengineers call for scale-up of COVID-19 testing to academic labs
March 19, 2020
Rice bioengineers are calling on federal officials to draft their lab and thousands like it to rapidly scale up coronavirus testing.
Heart nanofiber project makes STAT Madness round 3
March 16, 2020
A Texas Heart Institute/Rice project to use nanotube fibers to repair damaged hearts advances to round 3 of STAT Madness.
'Smart' wound-healing patch: DARPA awards $22 million grant
March 12, 2020
Rice University engineers are part of a team that's developing an 'intelligent' bandage to regrow muscle tissue for wounded soldiers.
March 12, 2020
OEDK has designed a lightweight replica trophy for Rice’s own Terlingua chili champ, Kathryn Cavender.
Natural bayou better when floods threaten Houston
March 11, 2020
A comparison of flood plains around Houston’s two major bayous shows the natural Buffalo Bayou is far better at managing floodwaters than the channelized Brays Bayou.
Heart nanofibers make STAT Madness Round 2
March 9, 2020
The Rice/Texas Heart Institute project to use nanotube fibers to repair damaged hearts makes Round 2 of STAT Madness.
March 9, 2020
New research offers a groovy answer to the question of what causes carbon nanotubes to align in ultrathin crystalline films discovered at Rice.
A small step for atoms, a giant leap for microelectronics
March 4, 2020
Rice materials scientist Boris Yakobson and colleagues in Taiwan and China report in Nature on making large single-crystal sheets of hexagonal boron nitride, touted as a key insulator in future two-dimensional electronics.
Rice satellite OwlSat set to launch in 2022
March 2, 2020
OwlSat, a small research satellite designed by Rice University students to monitor ultraviolet radiation, is set to launch into orbit in 2022.