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.

MECH postdoc Rambod Mojgani named a Future Faculty Fellow Friday, Sep. 16, 2022

Rice Engineering program supports Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers who are applying for tenure-track faculty positions this year.

Wehmeyer team receives $1.5m PIRE grant from NSF Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2022

Project’s goal is to build partnerships between Japan, U.S. researchers investigating large-scale materials made from oriented carbon nanotubes.