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Rice University scientists and engineers develop a one-step method involving sandpaper and powder to make robust superhydrophobic materials.

Water can’t touch this sanded, powdered surface

August 4, 2022

Rice scientists and engineers develop a one-step method involving sandpaper and powder to make robust superhydrophobic materials.

Bioengineering PhD student Amanda Nash and Professor Omid Veiseh with jars of bead-like implants like the ones they created to treat cancer

Rice lab’s ‘drug factory’ implants cleared for human trials

August 3, 2022

Federal regulators have approved the first human clinical trial of cancer-killing “drug factory” implants created by Rice bioengineers.

Cherukuri

Cherukuri named Rice University’s first vice president for innovation

August 2, 2022

Paul Cherukuri, the executive director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, has been named Rice University’s first vice president for innovation. 

A survey of Texas college and high school coaches, trainers and athletic directors suggests many are not taking climate change into account as they plan their programs’ futures.

Most but not all Texas coaches say they’ll plan for climate change

August 1, 2022

A survey of Texas college and high school coaches, trainers and athletic directors suggests many are not taking climate change into account as they plan their programs’ futures.

Daniel Gorczynski using the field-data gathering app he wrote for Microsoft's HoloLens

VegSense makes sense for forest studies

August 1, 2022

Rice ecologists have created open-source software to rapidly gather field data with Microsoft’s mixed reality headset.

Ang Chen and Eugene Ng

Next-generation networks with fast changes and increased security

July 31, 2022

Rice computer scientists are leading the development of programmable networks that respond to change in seconds without downtime.

Ramesh

Ramesh named Rice University’s vice president for research

July 29, 2022

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist with more than 25 years in academia, industry, national labs and government service, has been named Rice University’s vice president for research. 

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Felony convictions hinder efforts to access stable housing even if no prison time is served, study shows

July 25, 2022

Even if they’ve never served time in prison, people who have felony convictions still have difficulty accessing stable housing, according to new research from a Rice University sociologist.

Illustration of the action of a boron nitride and titanium dioxide photocatalyst destroying PFOA

Rice improves catalyst that destroys ‘forever chemicals’ with sunlight

July 25, 2022

Rice chemical engineers have improved their light-powered catalyst for destroying forever chemical PFOA.

false-color SEM image of self-assembled 2D sheet of gold tetrahedral nanoparticles

Tetrahedrons assemble! Three-sided pyramids form 2D structures

July 25, 2022

Rice chemists have discovered pyramid-shaped gold nanoparticles put their own twist on 2D self-assembly.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover

Study: Explosive volcanic eruption produced rare mineral on Mars

July 25, 2022

Rice, NASA and Caltech scientists have solved a mystery that began with a 2016 discovery by Mars rover Curiosity.

Rice University engineers find they can manipulate the legs of dead spiders to serve as grippers.

Rice engineers get a grip with ‘necrobotic’ spiders

July 25, 2022

Rice University engineers find they can manipulate the legs of dead spiders to serve as grippers.

Picture of mother and son reviewing school applications.

Rice economist’s research on school choice suggests ways to improve experience for students, parents

July 21, 2022

For school-age students and their parents, school choice programs can be complicated and stressful. Research from Rice University economist YingHua He suggests the process gets easier when schools are upfront about admission prospects and other details that factor into decisions, and that students should be allowed to apply before having to rank schools in order of preference.

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Immigration policy, aggressive enforcement harm mental health of people living in US illegally

July 18, 2022

Restrictive immigration policies and aggressive law enforcement are harmful to the mental health of immigrants living in the United States illegally, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Bioengineers used deactivated Cas9 fusion proteins to synthetically control gene expression and reveal new details about natural processes in human cells.

Synthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA

July 15, 2022

Bioengineers used deactivated Cas9 fusion proteins to synthetically control gene expression and reveal new details about natural processes in human cells.

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