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Interdisciplinary Rice graduate program earns $3M NSF grant

August 29, 2024

A research traineeship program developed by a team of Rice faculty led by Junichiro Kono has received an award of $3 million over five years from the National Science Foundation to equip a new generation of scientists and engineers with the skills needed to serve as leaders in quantum technology innovation.

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‘Out of all the unknowns in science, we have so much to discover’

August 16, 2024

Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute held its 38th annual Summer Research Colloquium Aug. 2 at Rice’s Duncan Hall, where undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers gave presentations covering topics in nanoscience, quantum materials and quantum information science and technology to a multidisciplinary audience.

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Rice’s Emilia Morosan awarded prestigious Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

July 18, 2024

Physicist wins Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award

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Rice neuroscientists to build state-of-the-art neural recording system

July 17, 2024

Rice neural engineer Chong Xie and his team have won a $2.9 million R01 grant from the NIH to develop a state-of-the-art implantable neural electrode system that is highly biocompatible, untethered and capable of stable, long-term and large-scale neural recording and stimulation.

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Rice experts available to discuss variety of Olympic-related topics on 2024 Paris Games

July 16, 2024

Experts from are available to discuss Olympic-related topics with the media.

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Future of bioelectronics takes center stage at Rice Global Paris event

July 16, 2024

The Rice Global Paris Center hosted the BioElectronic Therapeutics (BETx) conference and workshop June 27-28, the first formal event dedicated to the field of bioelectronics to be held at Rice’s Paris campus.

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Wearable devices get signal boost from innovative material

May 22, 2024

An international team of researchers from Rice and Hanyang University have developed a new material that moves like skin while preserving signal strength in electronics. The technology could enable the development of next-generation wearable devices with continuous, consistent wireless and battery-free functionality.

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Rice chemist Gustavo Scuseria wins 2024 Schrödinger Medal

May 20, 2024

Pioneering Rice chemist Gustavo Scuseria has won the 2024 Schrödinger Medal from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.

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Ken Kennedy Institute launches AI, data and computing seed funding initiative

May 9, 2024

The Ken Kennedy Institute, in collaboration with the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute, Smalley-Curl Institute and the Rice Advanced Materials Institute, awarded $175,000 in support of seven innovative research projects looking to establish new paradigms in AI, data and computing.

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Rice hosts 2024 Workshop on Quantum Materials Synthesis

May 2, 2024

The Rice Center for Quantum Materials recently hosted the second edition of the Workshop on Quantum Materials Synthesis, an event dedicated to communicating recent developments in the field, identifying new research areas and providing a platform for theorists and experimentalists to come together for discussion and knowledge exchange.

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Discovery points path to flashlike memory for storing qubits

April 5, 2024

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.

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Chemical reactions can scramble quantum information as well as black holes

April 5, 2024

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.

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New Rice research project ‘crucial for developing effective treatments’ for amyloid diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

March 29, 2024

A team of Rice researchers led by Angel Martí, professor and chair of chemistry and professor of bioengineering, materials science and nanoengineering, was awarded a $1.875 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to support its groundbreaking research in biological fibrillar nanostructures with potential implications for the treatment and diagnosis of diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

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Junichiro Kono tapped to lead Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute

March 28, 2024

Rice University’s Junichiro Kono has assumed leadership of the Smalley-Curl Institute, named for Nobel Laureates Richard Smalley and Robert Curl ’54 and home to some of the world’s most accomplished researchers in nanoscience, quantum science and materials science.

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Rice research shows promise for advancing quantum networks

March 28, 2024

Rice engineers have demonstrated a way to control the optical properties of an atomic imperfection in silicon material known as a T center by embedding it in a photonic integrated circuit and exploiting the Purcell effect to strengthen light-matter interaction and increase the rate of spontaneous emission.

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