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Bao wins Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award

May 16, 2025

Rice's Gang Bao has been selected to receive the Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award from the American Society for Mechanical Engineers for his sustained contributions to the mechanics of composites, cell mechanics and nanomedicine.

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Rice engineers tackle sunlight intermittency in solar desalination

May 14, 2025

A team of Rice engineers has developed a system that could transform desalination practices, making the process more adaptable, resilient and cheaper. The new system is powered by sunlight and uses a creative approach to heat recovery for extended water production ⎯ with and without sunshine.

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ENRICH Office’s Health Innovations Symposium showcases Rice-TMC biomedical collaboration ecosystem

May 14, 2025

Rice’s ENRICH Office hosted a two-day symposium April 24-25 at Helix Park highlighting the encompassing range of biomedical research at the university and the network of collaborations with institutions across the Texas Medical Center.

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About time: Rice researcher exploring how seasonal rhythms shape the hidden web of life

May 13, 2025

Volker Rudolf, a professor of biosciences at Rice, is investigating just how powerful seasonal rhythms, known as phenologies, can be.

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Machine learning powers new approach to detecting soil contaminants

May 9, 2025

A team of researchers at Rice and Baylor College of Medicine has developed a new strategy for identifying hazardous pollutants in soil ⎯ even ones that have never been isolated or studied in a lab.

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Christopher Johns-Krull to serve as interim EVP for research

May 5, 2025

Christopher Johns-Krull , professor of physics and astronomy, will serve as interim executive vice president for research, beginning July 1.

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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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Electricity-generating bacteria may power future innovations

May 1, 2025

A team led by Rice's Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity.

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New national survey reveals what American consumers truly value across 18 key industries

May 1, 2025

The 2025 Customer Value Report, authored by marketing researchers at Rice and the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School, evaluates 18 sectors representing the full spectrum of American consumer life — from banking, education and health care to streaming services and law enforcement.

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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 president charts bold vision for growth, access in interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education

April 30, 2025

Rice President Reginald DesRoches offered a compelling and in-depth account of the university’s future during a one-on-one interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Ian Wilhelm in Washington, D.C.

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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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Research takes center stage on Rice homepage amid national funding developments

April 29, 2025

With federal research funding in the headlines in recent months, Rice's Office of Public Affairs is spotlighting what’s at stake — and what’s possible — by putting the university’s research enterprise front and center on its newly updated homepage.

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A new shape for energy storage: Cone and disc carbon structures offer new pathways for sodium-ion batteries

April 29, 2025

A new study led by researchers from the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice has introduced an innovative solution that could impact electrochemical energy storage technologies.

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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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