A sophomore in bioengineering, Cooper Lueck is working in the Synthetic Virology Laboratory of Junghae Suh, part of a team hoping to mend damaged hearts with genes delivered by viruses.
A sophomore in bioengineering, Cooper Lueck is working in the Synthetic Virology Laboratory of Junghae Suh, part of a team hoping to mend damaged hearts with genes delivered by viruses.
Already a research associate in the Kavraki Robotics Lab, Thomas Herring is no robotics novice. In his native Toronto, he spent four years as a member of his high-school robotics team.
Two faculty members in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University, Luay Nakhleh and Francisco “Paco” Vargas, have been named to endowed chairs, effective July 1.
Rice civil engineers have developed a composite binder made primarily of fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants, that can replace Portland cement in concrete. The material is cementless and environmentally friendly.
The REA wants to raise $18k for a new 3-D printer at the Oshamn Engineering Design Kitchen.
Rice's PlinyCompute will be unveiled June 14 at the 2018 ACM SIGMOD conference. In a peer-reviewed conference paper, the team describes PlinyCompute as "a system purely for developing high-performance, big data codes."
In a paper appearing online this week and on the cover of July's issue of Nature Biotechnology, Rice's Caleb Bashor and colleagues from Boston University and MIT unveil eVOLVER, a system that combines the control of automated cell-culturing systems that can run continuously for months with the scale of high-throughput systems that grow dozens of cultures at once.
