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New roadmap advances catalytic solutions to destroy ‘forever chemicals’

May 6, 2025

A team of researchers from Rice, Carnegie Mellon University and other leading global institutions has outlined a bold new roadmap for harnessing heterogeneous catalysis to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the so-called “forever chemicals” that have contaminated water supplies worldwide.

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Rice professor Moshe Vardi honored for ‘moral courage’ at Holocaust Remembrance Gala

May 6, 2025

Rice's Moshe Vardi was honored with the Defender of Courage Award at the Holocaust Remembrance Association’s Upstanders Arise gala at the George Theater in Houston.

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Rice faculty experts discuss ethical guidelines for building responsible AI

May 5, 2025

Experts from Rice spoke about how AI is reshaping society, industry and human behavior.

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Matthew Tyler receives NSF CAREER award to improve reliability of survey-based research

May 1, 2025

Matthew Tyler, an assistant professor of political science at Rice, receives NSF CAREER award.

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National Academy of Sciences elects Lydia Kavraki as a member

April 30, 2025

Lydia Kavraki, a leading researcher in robotics, computational biomedicine and artificial intelligence at Rice, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s foremost professional societies dedicated to honoring achievement in science and outstanding original research.

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Rice engineer awarded NSF CAREER Award to advance decentralized learning for next-generation computing systems

April 30, 2025

Rice’s César A. Uribe has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to advance the mathematical foundations of decentralized learning, a critical area for the future of artificial intelligence, data science and distributed systems.

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Light-based data made clearer with new machine learning method

April 28, 2025

Rice researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that excels at interpreting optical spectra, potentially enabling faster and more precise medical diagnoses and sample analysis.

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Graduate Student Spotlight: Thiago Pinheiro dos Santos ’25

April 23, 2025

For Thiago Pinheiro dos Santos, a doctoral candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Brazil, research is a way to drive positive, meaningful impact across a wide range of real-world domains from energy innovation to medicine.

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Rice experts available to discuss environmental research, insights ahead of Earth Day

April 18, 2025

As Earth Day approaches April 22, Rice University experts are available to provide insight into their research on a range of environmental topics.

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Building better AI starts with asking better questions; Rice is doing just that

April 18, 2025

Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evaluated for bias or misuse.

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AI tool unlocks long-standing biomedical mystery behind Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s

April 15, 2025

A study led by Rice's Peter Wolynes introduces RibbonFold, a new computational method capable of predicting the structures of amyloids.

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Scientists observe exotic quantum phase once thought impossible

April 11, 2025

A team of Rice researchers reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon predicted over half a century ago known as a superradiant phase transition, which occurs when two groups of quantum particles begin to fluctuate in a coordinated, collective way without any external trigger, forming a new state of matter.

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‘Oscars of Science’ Breakthrough Prize honors Rice physicists

April 10, 2025

An international team of physicists, including Rice’s Paul Padley, Frank Geurts, Karl Ecklund, Wei Li and Darin Acosta, was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

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New Rice center focuses on innovation in data, computing and advanced research methods to address societal inequality

April 8, 2025

A new center at Rice will bring together the insights of the social sciences and the power of computational methods to understand and address inequality in today’s society.

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Rice researchers partnering with Houston Health Department on wastewater surveillance to stay ahead of measles outbreak

April 7, 2025

As measles cases rise across Texas and the nation, a team of researchers at Rice and the Houston Health Department is leveraging wastewater surveillance to detect the virus in the community.

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