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Google’s chief technologist delivers talk at Rice on role of AI in math and computer science research

April 15, 2026

Prabhakar Raghavan, chief technologist at Google, was the featured speaker in the Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture Series.

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Rice bioengineer to lead national organization, advocate for research funding on Capitol Hill

April 14, 2026

The Rice bioengineering department helped host the annual meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, where two Rice faculty were inducted as Fellows and Michael King stepped in as president.

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AI spots hidden behavior patterns in self-organizing bacteria

April 13, 2026

A custom-built artificial intelligence system developed by Rice researchers helped uncover how bacterial communities self-organize.

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Rice brings global AI dialogue to Paris

April 1, 2026

“Artificial intelligence is transforming the global economy and raising profound questions about how technology intersects with society,” said Caroline Levander, Rice’s vice president for global strategy.

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In one of Africa’s most studied environmental crises, Rice team collecting and analyzing missing data

March 31, 2026

For more than a decade, Rice’s Frederi Viens has been studying Lake Chad, a vast freshwater lake in west-central Africa that borders Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

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5 Rice researchers elected AAAS fellows

March 26, 2026

Five Rice professors, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Volker Rudolf, Edward Knightly, Marcia O’Malley and Ed Billups, have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Rice experts available to discuss Artemis II mission as NASA targets launch

March 25, 2026

Experts from Rice are available to share insight on key aspects of NASA’s Artemis II mission.

Research at Rice is advancing how people interact with technology and understand the brain, from improving human-AI systems like automated driving to uncovering the cognitive processes behind literacy.

Rice psychologists named APS Fellows for advancing research with real-world impact

March 24, 2026

Two Rice researchers recently named fellows of the Association for Psychological Science, one of the field’s leading international organizations.

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Harris County names Ship Channel Bridge for Rice mathematician Richard Tapia

March 20, 2026

In a unanimous vote, the Harris County Commissioners Court approved naming the Sam Houston Tollway Ship Channel Bridge in honor of Richard A. Tapia.

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Rice hosts first-of-its-kind workshop exploring how AI can accelerate discoveries in major neutrino experiment

March 16, 2026

Researchers at Rice recently convened an international group of scientists to explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning could transform one of the world’s most ambitious physics experiments: the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

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AI weather models show promise for hurricane forecasts, but new Rice study finds key physical limitations

March 11, 2026

A new Rice study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres provides a comprehensive evaluation of how AI-based global weather models simulate tropical cyclones.

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Energy HPC & AI Conference ties advanced computing to energy innovation — and the next generation

March 10, 2026

The Ken Kennedy Institute hosted the 19th annual Energy HPC & AI Conference, which brought together nearly 600 leaders and experts from industry, academia, national labs and the information technology sector to engage in critical discussions on high-performance computing and AI-powered integrations that support increasing workload demands across the energy sector.

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Rice and Lehigh partner with global industry leaders to revolutionize catastrophe modeling

February 23, 2026

The Consortium for Enhancing Resilience and Catastrophe Modeling (CERCat) convened at Rice Feb. 5-6 for its semiannual meeting. 

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Metabolic clues emerge from new molecular map of Alzheimer’s

February 11, 2026

Rice scientists have developed the first complete, label-free molecular atlas of the Alzheimer’s brain in an animal model.

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Explore the role of advanced computing and AI in the energy sector Feb. 24-26

February 4, 2026

The Ken Kennedy Institute will host the 19th annual Energy HPC & AI Conference Feb. 24-26 at the BioScience Research Collaborative.

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