Xue Sherry Gao wins CAREER Award
Rice engineer Xue Sherry Gao has won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to create versatile new toolkits for controlling gene expression.
Physicists harness electrons to make ‘synthetic dimensions’
Rice University physicists have learned to manipulate electrons in gigantic Rydberg atoms with such precision they can create “synthetic dimensions” where the system acts as if it had extra spatial dimensions, which are important tools for quantum simulations.
New Rice book: Democracies have more consistent foreign policy than nondemocracies
Democracies have had more consistent foreign policy than nondemocracies over the past 100 years, according to a new book from Rice political scientist Ashley Leeds.
CPRIT supports work on combo cancer therapy
Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao is developing a three-pronged attack on solid cancer tumors. The research now has the support of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Environmental champions win Rice grants
The Rice University Sustainable Futures Fund backs six projects to help bolster the planet’s environmental health.
Strong magnets put new twist on phonons
Phonons, quasiparticles in a crystal lattice that are usually hard to control by external fields, can be manipulated by a magnetic field -- but it takes a very strong magnet.
Kate Shepherd’s first permanent wall painting on public view installed at Rice
The piece joins the university’s growing collection of public art
Bacterial ‘bully’ could improve food production
Lactic acid bacteria that thrive in many organisms, including humans, employ a hybrid metabolism that combines respiration and fermentation to give it an advantage over competitors. Researchers say the discovery could lead to enhanced techniques for food and chemical production.
Rice announces plans to be carbon neutral by 2030
Rice President David Leebron and Provost Reginald DesRoches outlined the efforts in a message to the university community Feb. 11.
Rice to host international conference on scholarship of the paranormal March 3-6
“Opening the Archives of the Impossible” will also showcase collections housed in university library
Rice Shepherd School alumna picks up first Oscar nomination
Germaine Franco is going for gold — a gold-plated Oscar, that is.
Richard Baraniuk named to National Academy of Engineering
Rice University engineer, OpenStax founder Richard Baraniuk is named a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Clearly, this heart beats strong
In time for Valentine’s Day, engineers at Rice University and Waseda University provide a realistic view of what happens inside a beating heart.
Rare earth elements await in waste
Rice University scientists applied their flash Joule heating process to coal fly ash and other toxic waste to safely extract rare earth elements essential to modern electronics and green technologies.
Anastasios Kyrillidis wins NSF CAREER Award
Rice computer scientist will explore the theory and design of non-convex optimization algorithms, which are increasingly important for machine learning.