NSF-backed ‘team of teams’ raises stakes for master’s students
Four institutions will share an NSF grant of nearly $5 million to support scholarships for students seeking master’s degrees in engineering and related fields.
Old bones get new life in renovated Rice laboratory
The skeletons of more than 800 Southeast Texas animals are getting a second life in a renovated archaeology lab space at Rice University.
NSF extends Physics of Living Systems network at Rice
The NSF awards nearly $3 million to the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics to continue its leadership role in the Physics of Living Systems graduate research network.
Rice lands grant to improve time-release drugs
HOUSTON – (Sept. 21, 2021) – Time-released drugs are about to get a geometry lesson, thanks to bioengineers at Rice University.
Grant backs effort to build useful bacterial colonies
Rice scientists have won a grant to advance the development of custom-designed microbial colonies for a variety of applications.
Message from provost on launch of Rice Quantum Initiative
For more than four decades, Rice University scientists and engineers have explored and expanded the boundaries of quantum science and created revolutionary computation, sensing and communication technologies based on the principles of quantum mechanics.
Simmons: Confront legacies of slavery 'unflinchingly'
When she was president of an Ivy League university, Ruth Simmons learned the importance of confronting an institution’s complicated and controversial history head-on. Now, as a Rice trustee emerita and president of Prairie View A&M University, she has some thoughts and advice.
Rice announces new faculty funding opportunities
Rice's Office of Research launches three Creative Ventures Funds to seed faculty initiatives and guide them towards commercialization.
Rice physicists find 'magnon' origins in 2D magnet
Rice physicists have confirmed the topological origins of magnons, magnetic features they discovered three years ago in a 2D material that could prove useful for spintronics.
New book explores the different — and surprising — types of atheism in science
A newly published book argues that a significant part of the public wrongly sees scientists who are atheists as immoral elitists who don’t care about the common good.
CPRIT grant establishes Genetic Design and Engineering Center
Rice faculty members led by bioengineer Gang Bao have been awarded a $4 million CPRIT grant to establish the Genetic Design and Engineering Center.
DesRoches, Nakhleh, others tour startup Syzygy Plasmonics
Rice's provost, dean of engineering and others toured chemical manufacturing startup Syzygy Plasmonics last week.