Rice team demonstrates miniature brain stimulator in humans
Rice engineers have developed the smallest implantable brain stimulator demonstrated in a human patient that could revolutionize treatment for drug-resistant depression and other psychiatric or neurological disorders.
Prestigious Truman Scholarship awarded to Rice’s Lee Waldman
Lee Waldman, a Rice junior majoring in sociology in the School of Social Sciences, has been awarded a Truman Scholarship , the premier graduate fellowship in the U.S. for those pursuing careers as leaders in public service.
Rice’s Megan Reiter wins NSF CAREER Award to investigate planet-forming environments
Megan Reiter, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to investigate the influence of neighboring stars on the formation of planets.
Rice professors discuss climate resilience and urban design at Scientia event
In a recent lecture titled “Climate Resilience and Urban Design,” Rice University professors Dominic Boyer and Albert Pope shed light on the hydrological and infrastructural challenges Houston faces. That includes flooding triggered by the impacts of climate change, the duo said, as they discussed the need for sustainable solutions at the recent Scientia Institute Lecture Series event in the Kyle Morrow Room at Fondren Library.
Rice engineering students’ device could make intubation safer for young babies
TinyTrach, a team of interdisciplinary engineering students from Rice, created an innovative pediatric endotracheal tube integrated with a camera and anchoring system that could make intubation procedures safer for babies 1 month and older by ensuring precise placement, stable anchoring and visibility access for up to 14 days.
Rice engineering students convert old truck into an electrical vehicle
Four teams of Rice engineering students converted a 1997 Chevy P30 delivery van into a fully electric vehicle in less than a year, using a combination of parts scavenged from out-of-use vehicles, custom-built elements and off-the-shelf items.
Rice faculty and alumni travel to path of totality for ‘Great Owl Eclipse’
As the moon completely eclipsed the sun April 8, more than 300 Rice University alumni, faculty and staff gathered on the lawn of the Flying L Ranch Resort in Bandera, Texas, to view the last total solar eclipse in the contiguous United States for the next two decades.
A decade of discovery: 10 years of Rice’s Archives of the Impossible
It all started with a conversation during a ride to the airport in December 2014. Jeffrey Kripal, Rice University’s J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, was wrapping up a trip to Berkeley, California, where he’d spent time with Jacques Vallée.
Owls flock to central quad to view solar eclipse
Hundreds of Rice students, faculty and staff could be seen sporting special solar eclipse glasses and gazing into the sky at the central quad during the afternoon April 8 as much of the campus gathered to view the historic solar eclipse.
Protein ice cream company wins 2024 Rice Business Plan Competition
Ice cream company Protein Pints took home the grand prize at the 2024 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) April 6 as the best student ventures from top universities across the world competed for prizes in front of nearly 350 angel, venture capital and corporate investors and members of the business community.
Richard Tapia celebrated for 50 years of service at Rice
National Medal of Science winner Richard Tapia, a University Professor, the Maxfield-Oshman Professor in Engineering and professor of computational applied mathematics and operations research at Rice University, was celebrated for five decades of service to the university April 3 at Rice’s Faculty Club. He is widely recognized as a national leader in the preparation of women and underrepresented minorities for advanced degrees in science, engineering and mathematics.
Discovery points path to flashlike memory for storing qubits
Rice physicists have discovered a phase-changing quantum material — and a method for finding more like it — that could potentially be used to create flashlike memory capable of storing quantum bits of information, or qubits, even when a quantum computer is powered down.
Chemical reactions can scramble quantum information as well as black holes
A team of researchers from Rice University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and testing their theory in chemical reactions.
School of Humanities faculty members Sophie Esch and Thimo Heisenberg were selected for a prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Houston Mayor Whitmire discusses city’s past and future at Rice Baker Institute event
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted Houston’s 63rd mayor John Whitmire April 3 where he spoke with Ed Emmett, Baker Institute fellow in energy and transportation policy and former Harris County judge, about the city’s finances, public safety, infrastructure, mobility options and delivery of services.
