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Rice selects Lane Martin to lead new Advanced Materials Institute

March 21, 2023

Lane Martin has been appointed director of the new Rice Advanced Materials Institute and Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering in the George R. Brown School of Engineering.

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Visual Communication Symposium draws crowd to campus

March 20, 2023

Rice’s Program in Writing and Communication hosted the third iteration of the Visual Communication Symposium at the Moody Center for the Arts March 2-3.

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Rice hosts delegation of Brazilian higher education leaders

March 20, 2023

Rice President Reginald DesRoches, along with a cadre of university administrators and the Office of International Students and Scholars, hosted a Fulbright Brazil delegation of Brazilian university presidents, provosts and other leaders in the country’s higher education world March 9.

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Cherukuri provides update on Office of Innovation

March 20, 2023

Rice Vice President for Innovation Paul Cherukuri shared an update on the Office of Innovation in a recent email to the university community.

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Upgraded tumor model optimizes search for cancer therapies

March 20, 2023

Rice U. bioengineers have developed an upgraded tumor model that houses bone cancer cells beside immune cells inside a 3D structure engineered to mimic bone and, through research using the model, found that the body’s immune response can make tumor cells more resistant to chemotherapy.

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Political division prolongs the immigration crisis, report says

March 16, 2023

The U.S. immigration system is slow and stymied by politics, but the border crisis represents an opportunity to address gaps in the American labor market, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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Fats help tag medical implants as friend or foe

March 14, 2023

Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh and collaborators found that lipid deposition on the surfaces of medical implants can play a mediating role between the body and implants, knowledge that could help scientists develop biomaterials or coatings for implants that could reduce malfunction rates.

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Magnetism fosters unusual electronic order in quantum material

March 13, 2023

Rice physicists have found experimental evidence that magnetism helps bring about the intriguing type of electronic order they discovered in a quantum material last year.

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Rice labs seek RNA programming for ‘smart’ antibiotics

March 13, 2023

Rice University synthetic biologists are working to make “genetically encoded antibiotics” that kill only disease-causing bacteria.

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Rice U. at CERAWeek 2023: Energy, health care and computing top research agenda

March 9, 2023

Rice U. representatives discussed the vision guiding the university’s research agenda during a panel discussion at CERAWeek, the leading annual energy conference taking place in Houston this week.

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Lillehoj wins NIH grants to develop HIV, Chagas tests

March 9, 2023

With the $1.8 million in support, Mechanical Engineering's Lillehoj looks to develop a CRISPR-Cas13-based rapid HIV-1 test and a serological test for detecting Chagas.

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Latino families in US without legal permission suffered more than most during pandemic, study finds

March 9, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a disproportionate amount of illness and death among Latino families lacking permanent legal status compared with the general U.S. population — and factors such as poverty, dangerous living conditions and lack of access to health care are to blame — according to a new study from Rice University.

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Parents’ school experiences impact where they send their kids — and can exacerbate ‘white flight’

March 8, 2023

The decision of where to send a child for their K-12 education is a big one. According to new research from Rice University sociologists, approximately one-third of parents in their Dallas-based study make the call based on their own experiences in the classroom.

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Brain research critical for Texas economy, says new report

March 7, 2023

Texas needs to establish a state research institute to tackle a growing brain health crisis – which will contribute to healthier and more productive communities, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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Migrant caravan coverage contributes to poor immigration policy, says Baker Institute report

March 6, 2023

Both punitive and permissive immigration policies have done little to deter migrants from crossing the U.S. border, and media coverage of “migrant caravans” has contributed to stopgap policies, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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