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2022 AAAS Rice U. fellows

Two Rice University professors elected AAAS fellows

January 31, 2023

Rice University professors Thomas Killian and Marek Kimmel are elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a distinction that honors scientists, engineers and innovators whose efforts on behalf of science and its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished.

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Lab Notes for Jan. 30, 2023

January 30, 2023

STAT’s Hopkins co-authors National Academies report. CAREER Awards keep coming. DOE funds NEWT desalination research.

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Rice funds new research collaborations with Houston Methodist

November 14, 2022

Rice and Houston Methodist have awarded seed grants for research in robotics, imaging, cardiovascular bioengineering, and psychological and behavioral health.

Statisticians use electronic diary entries by more than 1,000 patients with epilepsy to gain a better understanding of how “attractors” are associated with the likelihood of seizures.

Seizures happen like clockwork — but depend on the clock

November 7, 2022

Statisticians use electronic diary entries by more than 1,000 patients with epilepsy to gain a better understanding of how “attractors” are associated with the likelihood of seizures.

A study shows the economic and mental health consequences on victims of Hurricane Harvey and COVID-19 were cumulative.

COVID-19 amplified hardship for many Harvey victims

September 13, 2022

A study shows the economic and mental health consequences on victims of Hurricane Harvey and COVID-19 were cumulative.

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People, papers and presentations for Sept. 12, 2022

September 12, 2022

Rice statisticians Katherine Ensor and Loren Hopkins and civil and environmental engineer Lauren Stadler are co-authors of a commentary in Nature Medicine that issues an urgent call to scale up wastewater monitoring to detect early signs of disease.

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Racial segregation magnifies effects of childhood lead exposure

August 15, 2022

Racial segregation magnifies the effects of childhood lead exposure according to new research from Rice, Duke and Notre Dame

A system to track COVID-19 through Houston’s wastewater became the basis of an epidemiology center that has now earned special designation from the U.S. government and $1 million in its first year of federal funding.

CDC names Houston Health Department, Rice a wastewater epidemiology Center of Excellence

August 5, 2022

A system to track COVID-19 through Houston’s wastewater became the basis of an epidemiology center that has now earned special designation from the U.S. government and $1 million in its first year of federal funding.

Rice Owls pitcher Tom Vincent throws while his performance is analyzed by various sport analytics software. Trackman captures the ball flight metrics, KinaTrax captures markerless motion and AMTI records ground force measurements. Photo by Jeff Fitlow.

Rice creates major in sport analytics to offer training in rapidly expanding field

May 5, 2022

Sport analytics, the subject of the hit movie “Moneyball” and the book of the same name , has transformed the way professional and college teams scout and evaluate potential players.

Philip Ernst

‘Awesome in every possible way’

April 25, 2022

To understand why Statistics’ Philip Ernst won this year’s George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Rice’s top teaching award, one need only read a few of the student comments in anonymous evaluations of his STAT 310 course.

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US News grad school rankings give high marks to Rice programs

March 30, 2022

A total of 19 graduate programs at Rice University rank among the nation's top 25 in their categories in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”

students and faculty from COVID-19 research group

Black and Hispanic communities bore disproportionate share of Texas’ early COVID-19 deaths

January 23, 2022

Texas state officials did not publish the race and ages of COVID-19 victims in early 2020, but a county-level statistical analysis spearheaded by Rice University undergraduates in collaboration with university faculty has found deaths statewide were disproportionately concentrated in Black and Hispanic communities.

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Rice’s Technology Development Fund backs faculty projects

December 10, 2021

Nine projects proposed by Rice researchers have been granted seed funding by Creative Ventures' Technology Development Fund.

Rice University statisticians matched health data from earlier studies that linked asthma attacks among schoolchildren and cardiac arrest to pollution in Houston neighborhoods to determine where planting “super trees” would have the most benefit. In this map, the red hatch marks show regions of high incidence of ambulance-treated asthma attacks and/or cardiac arrest.

‘Super trees’ may help save Houston … and beyond

December 9, 2021

Rice statisticians are part of a study sharing strategies to identify “super trees” for urban areas that help mitigate pollution, flooding and heat.

The winning Team Audubon, from left: students Minxuan Luo, Alexander Xiong, Krish Kabra and William Lu.

Audubon project wins D2K Showcase

December 3, 2021

Students whose computer vision system can classify birds by species and count them from the air won the Data to Knowledge Lab Showcase.

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