Research rooted in health and medicine dominated the winning pitches at the sixth annual Screech Competition, sponsored by the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL).
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Tayfun Tezduyar, the James F. Barbour Professor of Mechanical Engineering (MECH) at Rice University, will receive the 2018 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award from the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Five teams from Rice competed in a field of 73 teams in the competition held annually by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest. Taking first place was UT Orange, from the University of Texas at Austin.
Five of the eight graduate students selected to participate in the 2017-18 SCI-STAR (Student Training for Advising Research) program of the Smalley-Curl Institute are in the George R. Brown School of Engineering.Â
In vitro study verifies method for remotely triggering release of cancer drygs
The  partnership will draw Rice researchers and city of Houston departments together for mutually beneficial research.
A nanoscale antibody first found in camels combined with a protein-degrading molecule is an effective new platform to control protein levels in cells, according to Rice University scientists. The technique could aid fundamental research into cellular dynamics as well as the design of synthetic gene circuits.
Rice University Lecturer Deirdre Hunter was honored with an Alumni Faces of 2017 award from Onondaga Community College, one of her alma maters.