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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




Engineering and science building signals ‘a new era of research and education’
Construction of the new $152 million, 266,000-square-foot building on the engineering quadrangle at Rice is underway.

Rice Neuroengineering Initiative: ‘We are not crawling. We are up and running’
Since its launch in 2018, the RNEI has brought in more than 30 externally funded research grants and contracts totaling roughly $48 million.

The Rice University research initiative Carbon Hub was launched in 2019 to change how the world makes materials and uses hydrocarbons.

Statisticians bet on sport analytics
Statistics and sport management departments at Rice look at how computational tools and big data change fan experiences through gambling.

Houston’s director of public works: ‘Working in water felt like coming home’
Carol Haddock '91 oversees the city’s water and wastewater systems, as well as its street and storm drainage systems.

Kyrillidis urges caution when it comes to quantum computing
Rice computer scientist and collaborators have received NSF grants totaling $930,000 to investigate the development of quantum computing.

Suryanarayana repays his debts to Rice
Inspired by Yildiz Bayazitoglu, the mechanical engineering PhD alumnus recently became a member of the Rice Engineering Alumni board of directors.