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CAAM's Logan Smith helps police figure out where to put the bad guys
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Thanks to the Houston Solutions Lab, Smith and colleagues in CAAM are helping the city’s police department determine which existing police buildings should be renovated to temporarily house arrested people. From these facilities, small groups of prisoners can be efficiently transported downtown.

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Shrivastava, Baraniuk share Amazon Research Award
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Anshumali Shrivastava, assistant professor of computer science at Rice University, with Rich Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice, has won the Amazon Research Award in machine learning for the year 2017.

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MSNE senior named Knight Hennessey Scholar
Friday, February 16, 2018

Brandi Ransom is one of two Rice students to receive the inaugural award.http://kh.stanford.edu/scholars

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Rice grad Lihong Wang elected to National Academy of Engineering
Monday, February 12, 2018
Lihong Wang, who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering while working with two Nobel Laureates at Rice, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which cited him for his “inventions in photoacoustic microscopy enabling functional, metabolic, and molecular imaging in vivo.” 
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Three Rice grads elected to National Academy of Engineering
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Lihong V. Wang, who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering while working with two Nobel Laureates at Rice University, and two graduates in chemical engineering from the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice, are among the newly elected members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
 
 
 
Rice University researchers, from left, Yiming Huang, Eilaf Egap and Yifan Zhu are employing the power of the sun to build functional synthetic polymers using photosensitive, semiconducting quantum dots as a catalyst. They said the living polymerization process could lead to the creation of novel polymers. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Quantum dots display promise for polymers
Thursday, February 8, 2018

Rice University scientists simplify process to make polymers with light-triggered nanoparticles.

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Pedro Alvarez elected to National Academy of Engineering
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
http://www.newtcenter.org/Pedro J. J. Alvarez, the George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Rice University and director of the National Science Foundation’s Energy Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment at Rice, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
 
 
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Fangzhou Guo receives AMS Outstanding Paper Award
Friday, February 2, 2018

American Meteorological Society gives graduate student Outstanding Student Paper Award at its the 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry.

Rice University scientists probing the interfacial interactions of polymer (blue) and cement (yellow) discovered the right mix of hydrogen bonds is critical to making strong, tough and ductile composite materials for infrastructure.
Weak hydrogen bonds key to strong, tough infrastructure
Monday, January 29, 2018

Rice University lab simulates polymer-cement composites to find strongest, toughest materials.

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Data Science Consulting Clinic is open for business
Friday, January 26, 2018
Genevera Allen, associate professor of statistics, computer science and electrical and computer engineering, has organized the Rice Data Science Consulting Clinic. The clinic doubles as a class: Data Science Consulting, STAT 415/STAT 515, in the spring semester. 

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