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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.'

Pedram Hassanzadeh promoted to associate professor Wednesday, May. 24, 2023
Having joined Rice in 2013, Hassanzadeh studies turbulent flows and chaotic dynamical systems.

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.