Rice doctoral student designs electricity-free heating and cooling system
Research by Lorenzo Castelli and collaborators expands passive variable insulation to multi-season capabilities.
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This paper, highlighted by the Journal of Pathology and Nature Reviews Urology, led to a $10M+ federal grant award to study urothelial carcinogenesis.
Research professor honored for his international leadership in nanomaterials research.
Longtime research specialist served “with dedication and quiet strength.”
The paper described a new method to identify functional gene clusters for a genetic disorder
Rice Engineering and Computing faculty named to Highly Cited Researchers list
Web of Science group‘s list recognizes researchers “who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and year of publication.”
Ross Thyer awarded BioMADE grant for sustainable biomanufacturing
Funding will support development of genetic toolkit for environmental bacteria to manufacture materials, commodity chemicals.
Clean-tech company Helix Earth secures $5.6M in seed funding
Startup led by Rawand Rasheed ’23 develops retrofit devices to reduce energy consumption in air-conditioning systems.
Antonio Mendoza honored for paper at IEEE-EMBS international conference
Electrical and computer engineering graduate student wins Best Paper Award: Runner Up for research in pediatric cardiology.
Rice graduate students place first in ASEM Student Case Competition
Team is recognized for developing strategies and solutions to a Microsoft engineering management challenge.
José-Miguel Yamal to give 2024 Hispanic/Latino Heritage Statistics Colloquium lecture
Rice alumnus, biostatistician and data scientist to deliver talk titled, “Diverse Data: A Hispanic Biostatistician’s Perspective in Academia.”