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Trevor Shimokusu

PhD student wins Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer best poster Wednesday, May. 24, 2023

Trevor Shimokusu's poster was titled 'Aluminum Jumping Droplet Thermal Diodes.'


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Pedram Hassanzadeh promoted to associate professor Wednesday, May. 24, 2023

Having joined Rice in 2013, Hassanzadeh studies turbulent flows and chaotic dynamical systems.


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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.


C. Fredd Higgs III

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.


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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.


Engineer holding out hand with a small transistor in palm

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

Rice research group's findings published in Nature Communications


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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.


Mark Schara and Mingde “Bryan” Zeng standing in lab

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.”


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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.