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Rice University’s Office of Research has named Tam Dao as assistant vice president for research security and Patricia Stepp as assistant vice president for technology transfer. Both will begin their new roles on July 17.Dao will help Rice…

Rice University bioengineers have demonstrated a low-cost, point-of-care DNA test for HPV infections that could make cervical cancer screening more accessible in low- and middle-income countries where the disease kills more than 300,000…

Josh Pearcy leads a group of nine Rice football players that were named to Phil Steele's Preseason All-American Athletic Conference team, which was released Monday.Pearcy was named to the first team, Luke McCaffrey and Ethan Onianwa were…

Arun Chandran Natarajan will join the Office of the Provost as the associate provost for institutional research and effectiveness. Natarajan comes to Rice from Johns Hopkins University, where he was the assistant vice provost for…

Because two-dimensional (2D) materials are as thin as a single atom, they will help change how we manufacture electronics, store energy and build sensors, all on the ultra-thin scale.With the support of her National Science Foundation…

Rice track and field athletes Tara Simpson-Sullivan and Alexander Slinkman were recently named Conference USA Female and Male Athletes of the Year, respectively.Rice track and field athletes Tara Simpson-Sullivan and Alexander Slinkman…

Rice University’s Noah Harding Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Anastasios Kyrillidis, is using a recent Microsoft Research Award to explore complementary machine learning (ML) research axes: efficient large-scale training of…

By 2030, if the 30 by 30 initiative supported by more than 100 countries is successful, 30% of our land and ocean ecosystems will be designated protected areas meant to safeguard biodiversity and help limit the impacts of climate…

Rice University’s Center for Environmental Studies, in partnership with the Houston Climate Justice Museum, hosted students from the Houston Independent School District the week of June 12 as part of a summer program focused on Houston…

Juneteenth has been celebrated in Texas since the end of the Civil War, a commemoration of the day in 1865 when U.S. forces arrived in Galveston to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation in the state.Rice honored the holiday with a…