MECH grad student's team wins Rice venture competition Wednesday, May. 3, 2023

Trio including Samantha Wong '23, who earned a Master of Mechanical Engineering and MBA at Rice, took home Napier Rice Launch Challenge top prize.

Higgs elected to AIMBE's 2023 Class of the College of Fellows Monday, Mar. 27, 2023

Rice professor honored for his research in hip, knee replacements.

Lillehoj awarded two NIH grants for HIV, Chagas testing Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2023

With the $1.8 million in support, Rice professor looks to develop a CRISPR-Cas13-based rapid HIV-1 test and a serological test for detecting Chagas.

Wehmeyer lab's 'inspired' thermal transistors route heat Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023

Rice research group's findings published in Nature Communications

Marquise Bell receives Materials Research Society best presentation award Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023

PhD student is a researcher in the Preston Innovation Laboratory at Rice.

Rice seniors' paper published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI Friday, Nov. 11, 2022

Mark Schara and Mingde “Bryan” Zeng co-authored “A Low-Cost Wearable Device for Portable Sequential Compression Therapy.”

O'Malley named chair of mechanical engineering department Monday, Oct. 31, 2022

The associate dean for research and innovation will assume the role effective July 1.

Kavraki, O’Malley named to list of world’s top women scientists in robotics engineering and science Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022

Announcement made at the iROS Kyoto 2022 Conference in Japan.

Rice doctoral student among 'rising stars' in mechanical engineering Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022

Te Faye Yap, who works in the Preston Innovation Laboratory, was one of 32 students, postdocs to attend Stanford workshop.