Graduate Students

Rice-built reactor yields green ammonia and purified water

Rice engineers have developed a revolutionary reactor design that could decarbonize ammonia production while also mitigating water pollution.

Rice is top destination for Mexican students who receive Fulbright awards

Seven master’s and Ph.D. Fulbright recipients from Mexico will study at Rice this fall, the most of any university and nearly double the number of any other university, including Rice’s Association of American Universities peers.

Owls flock to Rice’s graduate student resource fair

Rice’s Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies recently hosted its graduate student resource fair at the BioScience Research Collaborative to introduce graduate and postdoctoral students to the resources they might find helpful.

Foam fluidics showcase Rice lab’s creative approach to circuit design

Rice engineers have shown that something as simple as the flow of air through open-cell foam can be used to perform digital computation, analog sensing and combined digital-analog control in soft textile-based wearable systems.

Future of bioelectronics takes center stage at Rice Global Paris event

The Rice Global Paris Center hosted the BioElectronic Therapeutics (BETx) conference and workshop June 27-28, the first formal event dedicated to the field of bioelectronics to be held at Rice’s Paris campus.

Rice’s Graduate Muslim Student Association celebrates Eid al-Adha

Rice’s Graduate Muslim Student Association held a dinner June 28 at Farnsworth Pavilion in a belated celebration of Eid al-Adha, the second of two main Islamic holidays that marks the culmination of the pilgrimage rites at Minā, Saudi Arabia, near Mecca, honoring Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son.

Rice lab achieves major gains in perovskite solar cell stability

Rice lab develops new chemistry to achieve commercially relevant stability and performance for perovskite solar cells.

‘Do things that are extraordinarily hard’: Rice confers doctoral degrees to more than 100 students

More than 100 Rice University students were recognized during a doctoral commencement ceremony at Tudor Fieldhouse the morning of May 4. They join the more than 7,800 alumni who have earned a doctoral degree at Rice in the university’s 111-year history.

Rice honors achievements of over 700 advanced degree recipients

More than 700 of Rice University’s advanced degree recipients crossed the stage to thunderous applause and cheers from family, friends, faculty and staff during an afternoon graduation ceremony May 4 in Tudor Fieldhouse.

Rice engineers develop innovative microbiome analysis software tools

Rice engineers have developed two new graph-based computational tools for tracking genomic variation within microbiomes.

Rice’s Class of 2024 lauded as ‘more resilient and adaptive than ever’ during university’s 111th commencement ceremony

During two days of festivities May 3-4, Rice University’s Class of 2024 graduates celebrated the culmination of their experiences on South Main while also looking forward to the bright futures that await them.

Rice doctoral alumnus Jacob Beckham earns Schmidt Science Fellowship

This marks the third consecutive year a Rice graduate has won one of the prestigious awards.

Rice faculty and alumni travel to path of totality for ‘Great Owl Eclipse’

As the moon completely eclipsed the sun April 8, more than 300 Rice University alumni, faculty and staff gathered on the lawn of the Flying L Ranch Resort in Bandera, Texas, to view the last total solar eclipse in the contiguous United States for the next two decades.

Rice Shepherd School’s Kellan Dunlap wins Presser Graduate Music Award for project raising awareness of school shootings

Kellan Dunlap , a Rice Shepherd School of Music graduate student studying vocal performance, is a recipient of the 2024 Presser Graduate Music Award for a musical project that will take listeners on a “thought-provoking musical journey that addresses the multifaceted dimensions of school shootings.”

Data-processing tool could enable better early stage cancer detection

A team of Rice researchers has developed a tool that is better at integrating single-cell DNA and RNA data than more recent, state-of-the-art technologies. The findings could lead to better early stage cancer detection.