As the COVID-19 crisis plays out, Rice University faculty have been proactively making the best of a difficult situation for their students.
Heart nanofibers in STAT Madness semifinals
Texas Heart Institute and Rice University’s heart-saving nanotube fibers have advanced to the semifinal round of STAT Madness.
Coral tells own tale about El Niño’s past
Researchers from Rice and Georgia Tech studied ancient Pacific corals to improve computer model predictions of El Niño events.
Rice professors named AIMBE fellows
Two Rice University faculty members have been named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Heart nanofibers in STAT Madness quarterfinals
Texas Heart Institute and Rice University’s heart-saving nanotube fibers have advanced to the quarterfinal round of STAT Madness.
'Hunker down' and hope for a controlled crash landing
Rice bioscientist Yousif Shamoo explains how diseases like the coronavirus spread quickly and discusses how big cities like Houston can respond.
Heart nanofiber project makes STAT Madness round 3
A Texas Heart Institute/Rice project to use nanotube fibers to repair damaged hearts advances to round 3 of STAT Madness.
Heart nanofibers make STAT Madness Round 2
The Rice/Texas Heart Institute project to use nanotube fibers to repair damaged hearts makes Round 2 of STAT Madness.
Tissue-digging nanodrills do just enough damage
Scientists at Rice and their collaborators show light-activated molecular drills effectively kill cells in whole eukaryotic organisms.
A small step for atoms, a giant leap for microelectronics
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
OwlSat, a small research satellite designed by Rice University students to monitor ultraviolet radiation, is set to launch into orbit in 2022.
Heart nanofiber breakthrough awaits your STAT Madness vote
Joint Texas Heart Institute/Rice University research into using carbon nanotube fibers to bridge damaged areas of hearts is part of this year's STAT Madness, a competition to choose the year's best university-based bioscience project.
Chemistry of Art class partners with MFAH to give Rice students firsthand experience
In this popular course, chemistry and art conservation go hand in hand.
CPRIT grant draws cell imaging specialist to Rice
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awards a $2 million grant to Rice to recruit physical chemist Anna-Karin Gustavsson, who will study the dynamics and distributions of single molecules in living cells through her development of sophisticated imaging systems.