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Two young women work on a project together at the Tapia Camp for Physics
Tapia Camp helps students focus on science, communication
Monday, June 26, 2017

Nearly 400 students take part in these camps over the summer, learning about opportunities avaialble to them in STEM studies and careers.

Moshe Vardi
Vardi receives second ACM Presidential Award
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Moshe Y. Vardi, the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering and director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University, has received the 2017 ACM Presidential Award.
 
This scaled-up test bed of NEWT’s direct solar desalination technology uses carbon black nanoparticles that convert as much as 80 percent of sunlight energy into heat. Results from an earlier prototype showed the technology could produce as much as six liters of freshwater per hour per square meter of solar membrane.
Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Modular, off-grid destination technology could supply families, towns.

Members of an OwlSpark team gather to discuss a project.
OwlSpark finds a new nest in downtown Houston
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Startup incubator's new location provides for collaboration,

gang bao group research image
Making blood vessels leaky on demand could aid drug delivery
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Engineers at Rice University and their colleagues have discovered it may be possible to selectively open gaps in the endothelial cells that line blood vessels just enough to let large molecules through -- and then close them again.

aydin Babakhani
Texas team debuts battery-less pacemaker
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Rice University, Texas Heart Institute researchers test microwave-powered device. 
maria oden
Oden named full teaching professor
Monday, June 5, 2017
Maria Oden, director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) at Rice University and a pioneer in healthcare technologies for the developing world, has been named to the recently created position of full teaching professor in bioengineering, effective July 1.
 
A student demonstrates the haptic feedback with a prosthetic hand.
Tactile feedback adds 'muscle sense' to prosthetic hand
Monday, June 5, 2017

US, Italian researchers test 'proprioceptive' feedback with skin-stretch device.

Ryan Spring (left) and Anshumali Shrivastava
'Hashing' slashes computations for deep learning
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Rice University computer scientists have adapted a widely used technique for rapid data lookup to slash the amount of computation -- and thus energy and time -- required for deep learning, a computationally intense form of machine learning.
 
andrew schaefer
Schaefer suggests a better way to locate an airplane's 'black box'
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
When Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Andrew J. Schaefer, like the rest of the world, wondered absently about its fate.
 

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