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Making blood vessels leaky on demand could aid drug delivery
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Engineers at Rice University and their colleagues have discovered it may be possible to selectively open gaps in the endothelial cells that line blood vessels just enough to let large molecules through -- and then close them again.

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Texas team debuts battery-less pacemaker
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Rice University, Texas Heart Institute researchers test microwave-powered device. 
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Oden named full teaching professor
Monday, June 5, 2017
Maria Oden, director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) at Rice University and a pioneer in healthcare technologies for the developing world, has been named to the recently created position of full teaching professor in bioengineering, effective July 1.
 
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Tactile feedback adds 'muscle sense' to prosthetic hand
Monday, June 5, 2017

US, Italian researchers test 'proprioceptive' feedback with skin-stretch device.

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'Hashing' slashes computations for deep learning
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Rice University computer scientists have adapted a widely used technique for rapid data lookup to slash the amount of computation -- and thus energy and time -- required for deep learning, a computationally intense form of machine learning.
 
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Schaefer suggests a better way to locate an airplane's 'black box'
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
When Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Andrew J. Schaefer, like the rest of the world, wondered absently about its fate.
 
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Knightly named to endowed chair
Friday, May 26, 2017
Edward Knightly, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rice University, has been named the Sheafor-Lindsay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective July 1.
 
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Babakhani elected to DARPA council
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Aydin Babakhani, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, has been elected to the Microsystems Exploratory Council (MEC) by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO).
 
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CPRIT grant brings epigenetics researcher to Rice
Monday, May 22, 2017

Bioengineer Isaac Hilton will join Rice University as an assistant professor and his lab will be designed to tie his groundbreaking research on epigenome editing to cancer biology.

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Chen, Owuor awarded Brotzen Fellowships
Monday, May 22, 2017
Weibing Chen and Peter Owuor, doctoral students in materials science and nanoengineering (MSNE) at Rice University, are recipients of the 2017 Franz and Frances Brotzen Fellowship Awards.
 

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