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RESEARCH & GRANTS
Supramolecules get time to shine
July 2011
Rice technique reveals interactions between nanotubes, photoluminescent materials. Know more...
Segatori's lab reports advance in Gaucher disease research
June 2011
Rice University’s Dr. Laura Segatori, Rice's T.N. Law Assistant Professor in Chemical and BiomolecularEngineering, and graduate student Fan Wang found in a new study that a common high blood pressure medication, the calcium channel blocker Lacidipine, may be key to finding a treatment for Gaucher disease. Know more...
Detergents, study of diseases may benefit from Biswal's research
May 2011
Rice University researcher Dr. Sibani Lisa Biswal and Kai-Wei Liu, a graduate student in Biswal's lab who recently earned her doctorate at Rice, used microcantilevers as ultrasensitive measuring devices to study how lipid bilayers interact with surfactants. Know more...
Rice University researchers' technique quantifies axial spin of long particles
May 2011
Lisa Biswal's lab discovers a technique to measure Brownian-induced spinning of a cylinder along its axis. The discovery was reported in May 2011 in Physical Review Letters. Know more...
Ajayan wins MURI grants for nano research in 2-D and 3-D
April 2011
Pulickel Ajayan, Rice's Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, collaborates with Matteo Pasquali, a professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and in Chemistry, to create novel materials from two-dimensional elements and to build structures in three dimensions using carbon nanotubes; research that has won two Department of Defense research grants. Know more...
Rice's Shell Center rewards student researchers for sustainable development
April 2011
Thanks to grants from Rice University's Shell Center for Sustainability (SCS), 14 Rice students are in the field with faculty members finding ways to reduce Houston's carbon footprint, improve solar energy, protect Gulf Coast ecosystems and promote environmental stewardship. Know more...
Rice researchers led by Biswal ‘see’ binding with DNA through quartz crystal microbalance
March 2011
A new way to see and quickly measure DNA/protein binding was discovered and demonstrated by Rice University researchers led by Lisa Biswal and Kathy Matthews, Stewart Memorial Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. The discovery prompted one journal reviewer to write, "This study has made my day." Know more...
Blankschien, Nicholas Fellowship winner, wants to draw fuel from bionanoparticles
March 2011
Rice University postdoctoral researcher and molecular geneticist by training, Matthew Blankschien, is engineering light-triggered bionanoparticles for energy production and other applications. Know more...
Wong wins a collaborative research grant from Simmons Family Foundation
February 2011
Virginia and L.E. Simmons Family Foundation Collaborative Research Fund awards a $3 million, five-year initiative to discover new ways to diagnose and treat diseases supports collaboration among researchers at Rice University, Texas Children’s Hospital and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute. Biomarkers and brain tumors are the focus of the new research. Know more ...
Rice-led researchers settle argument over mobility of flexible filaments
January 2011
Together with collaborators at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the University of Bordeaux, France, and Vrije University, Amsterdam, Matteo Pasquali and his team have settled a long-standing controversy in the field of polymer dynamics. Know more...
AWARDS
Chapman and Cox honored with Brown Superior Teaching awards
May 2011
George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching honors top Rice professors each year as determined by the votes of alumni who graduated two and five years ago. This year nine faculty received the award. Know more...
Wong receives GSA Faculty Teaching/Mentoring Award
May 2011
Rice faculty member Michael Wong, professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and in Chemistry, and Kurt Kasper, faculty fellow in Bioengineering, are this year's winners of the Graduate Student Association's Faculty Teaching/Mentoring Award. Know more...
Chatterjee, CHBE graduate student, honored by SPE
June 2011
Graduate student Sayantan Chatterjee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, placed first in The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Gulf Coast Section Young Professionals Emerging Engineers Conference poster competition. Know more...
Chatterjee and Warudkar honored by Graduate Student Association for service to students
May 2011
The Graduate Student Association (GSA) recognizes several staff, students and friends of the university for their strong support of Rice graduate students with its service awards. Know more...
Vicki Colvin and Angel Martí inducted into the Rice-TMC chapter of Sigma Xi
May 2011
Vicki Colvin and Angel Martí were inducted into the Rice U-TMC chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, during a May 5 banquet in the Texas Medical Center (TMC). Know more...
Mikos receives award from Controlled Release Society
April 2011
Antonios Mikos, the Louis Calder Professor in Bioengineering and professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was selected to receive the 2011 College of Fellows Award of the Controlled Release Society. Know more...
Li, Chatterjee and Hirasaki Win SPE Paper Contest
April 2011
Robert Li and Sayantan Chatterjee, both graduate students of George Hirasaki, the A.J. Hartsook Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, placed first and second, respectively, in the Ph.D. division of the SPE Gulf Coast Regional Student Paper Contest held April 1-2 at Texas A&M. Know more ...
Colvin elected AIMBE fellow
February 2011
Rice researchers Vicki Colvin and Jane Grande-Allen were among 79 researchers chosen as new fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Know more...
TEACHING & PEOPLE
Ned Thomas, MIT’s head of materials science and engineering named dean of engineering
March 2011
Edwin “Ned” Thomas, MIT's head of Materials Science and Engineering named Dean of Engineering at Rice. Know more...
Reverse NanoJapan: Rice to host 25-30 Japanese students
May 2011
Impact of tsunami in Japan warrants location change for summer study abroad program. Between 25-30 students from Japan will attend Rice University laboratories for three months to participate in NanoJapan, Japan’s award-winning undergraduate internship program. Know more...
Biswal wins Brown Foundation grant for innovative undergraduate teaching
April 2011
The Brown Teaching Grants Program recently awarded support to nine of twenty-one submitted proposals on innovative undergraduate teaching projects at Rice. Know more ...
Warudkar elected president of Rice's Graduate Student Association
March 2011
The newly elected Graduate Student Association (GSA) officers answer a few questions to help the Rice community get to know them a little better. Know more...
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