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Landscape architect to host informational event on Academic Quad redesign 

March 6, 2023

As part of the next phase of the redesign of Rice’s Academic Quadrangle, President Reginald DesRoches and Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW), the landscape architect design team leading the project, are inviting students to attend an informational event in the quad March 9 from 4 to 6 p.m. 

Prospective graduate students mingle among dinosaurs at recruitment event

Rice graduate studies office throws ‘Night at the Museum’ bash

February 27, 2023

Rice’s Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies hosted its annual “A Night at the Museum” graduate student recruitment event Feb. 25 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Morian Hall of Paleontology, a fun-filled evening amid the museum’s spectacular collection of dinosaur skeletons and other paleontological wonders.

Freedmen's Town visit

Learning Black history in Houston’s Fourth Ward

February 27, 2023

As part of Rice’s Black History Month programming sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, students and members of the Rice community visited the Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum in Freedmen’s Town Feb. 17.

Students participating in Mitzvah Marathon

Marathon of mitzvahs

February 27, 2023

Rice students and community members were invited to the Central Quad Feb. 22 by Chabad at Rice to participate in the group’s latest Mitzvah Marathon “good deed drive.”

Tabsi, a mechatronic bracelet that can deliver hands-free tactile feedback

Hands-free tech adds realistic sense of touch in extended reality

February 22, 2023

Rice mechanical engineers and their collaborators have demonstrated a new hands-free approach to convey realistic haptic feedback in virtual reality.

Karine Jean-Pierre

Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary and presidential adviser, announced as Rice’s 2023 commencement speaker

February 22, 2023

Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary and assistant to the president, will deliver the 2023 commencement address at Rice University during the undergraduate commencement ceremony the evening of May 6. All 2023 Rice graduates along with their families and guests and all members of the university community are welcome to attend the ceremony at Rice Stadium.

hybrid carbon nanomaterial

Potential for profits gives Rice lab’s plastic waste project promise

February 16, 2023

Rice University scientists create carbon nanotubes and other hybrid nanomaterials out of plastic waste using an energy-efficient, low-cost, low-emissions process that could also be profitable.

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Rice scientists reengineer cancer drugs to be more versatile

February 14, 2023

Rice University scientists enlist widely used cancer therapy systems to control gene expression in mammalian cells, a feat of synthetic biology that could change how diseases are treated.

Young adults taking part in GREAT Project event

Rice grad students bring Latin America to special needs community

February 13, 2023

In the most recent class in the Global Rice Empowers Academics and Training (GREAT) Project Feb. 11, local young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities were treated to a fun-filled afternoon where international graduate students and Rice staff with the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS) hosted a “Walk Through Latin America.”

example of air flow features a deep learning network is shown during training

​​​​​​​Scientific AI’s ‘black box’ is no match for 200-year-old method

February 13, 2023

Rice engineers discovered a 200-year-old technique called Fourier analysis can reveal crucial information about how a form of artificial intelligence called a deep neural network learns to perform tasks involving complex physics.

Rice bioengineering graduate student Kevin Janson

​​​​​​​Bite this! Mosquito feeding chamber uses fake skin, real blood

February 9, 2023

Rice bioengineers teamed up with tropical medicine experts from Tulane to invent a high-tech way to study the feeding behavior of mosquitoes. To eliminate the need for live volunteers, the system uses patches of "synthetic skin" made with a 3D bioprinter.

Neighbors talk after Hurricane Harvey. Photo by Brandon Martin.

People are more critical of government when family and friends are hit by natural disasters

February 6, 2023

Whether they’re personally struck by or spared from natural disasters, people are more likely to distrust the government when their family and friends are victims, according to new research from Rice University.

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Molecular machines could treat fungal infections

February 1, 2023

Rice scientists show that light-activated nanoscale drills can kill pathogenic fungi.

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Rice lab uncovers dynamics behind protein crucial in breast cancer

January 30, 2023

Just as a puppeteer moves a puppet by manipulating its strings, estrogen receptors, which play a crucial role in breast cancer, work in similar ways when they facilitate the interaction between hormones and DNA, according to Rice scientists.

Aditya Mohite

Researchers can ‘see’ crystals perform their dance moves

January 30, 2023

Rice University researchers already knew the atoms in perovskites react favorably to light. Now they’ve seen precisely how the atoms move when the 2D materials are excited with light. Their study this week in Nature Physics details the first direct measurement of structural dynamics under light-induced excitation in 2D perovskites.

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