
Latest Engineering & Computing News
Two Rice undergraduate teams—DialySafe and VacuTrac—won awards at the 2025 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Team Challenge sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Alumna’s passion for mentorship shapes Rice engineering students’ experiences

Rice Engineering announces fifth Future Faculty Fellows cohort
Fellowship program prepares future leaders in academia through tailored workshops, one-on-one consultation and mentoring.

James Truchard honored with Dean’s Appreciation Award
Longtime member of the Rice Engineering community recognized for his impact on engineering education.

Rice labs introduce new techniques for textile-based robotics
Research led by Marcia O’Malley and Daniel Preston featured as cover art in Advanced Intelligent Systems.


New international journal ‘fills gap’ for imaging data analysis research
Rice statistics professor Marina Vannucci to serve as editor-in-chief of Statistics and Data Science in Imaging.


Chan Zuckerberg Initiative award to chart the single-cell RNA-sequencing ‘multiverse’
Rice computer scientist Vicky Yao uses natural language processing, novel procedural knowledge extraction paradigm to track trends in biomedical literature.
