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Tuesday, Jul. 21, 2026

Guha Balakrishnan receives National Science Foundation’s CAREER award

To develop AI approaches to analyze massive geospatial datasets

Tuesday, Jul. 21, 2026

Rice and Baylor College of Medicine secure a DoD grant to combat lung cancer

Researchers to map the unique genetic landscapes of individual tumor cells to pioneer early diagnosis and highly personalized treatment strategies.

Monday, Jul. 20, 2026

Kelsey Swingle wins PhD Thesis Award from the Controlled Release Society

Rice bioengineer recognized for her pioneering research in maternal-fetal medicine.

Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2026

Two Rice alumnae named Fellows of the American Statistical Association

Yanxun Xu ‘13 and Rebecca Nugent ‘99 receive the highest honor in statistics

ASM Launches Bioinformatics, Genomics & Big Data Conference Tue, 10/07/2025 - 15:55

Rice associate professor of computer science Todd Treangen serves as Chair of the ASM BIG Program Committee.

Rising scholar Quadri Popoola invited to present at the Ecological Society of America conference Tue, 09/30/2025 - 13:27

Popoola co-presented his research on agrarian sustainability in the Lake Chad Basin with his mentor, Prof. Frederi Viens

Mehta Rice Engineer Scholar publishes paper in Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects Tue, 09/23/2025 - 14:30

Sikandar Bind was a 2023-24 Mehta Rice Engineering Scholar hosted by Sibani Lisa Biswal.

Michael Reynolds wins the 2025 CRE Practice Award Mon, 09/15/2025 - 12:01

The AIChE's CRE Practice Award recognizes individuals who have made pioneering contributions to the industrial practice of catalysis and chemical engineering reactions.

Rice student teams win awards at NIH’s 2025 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge Thu, 09/11/2025 - 11:06

Two Rice undergraduate teams—DialySafe and VacuTrac—won awards at the 2025 DEBUT Challenge sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Marcia O’Malley and Jeffrey Tabor elected Fellows of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering Fri, 09/05/2025 - 12:15

The International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) is an esteemed honorary body of fellows who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the profession of medical and biological engineering at an international level.