MECH grad student's team wins Rice venture competition Wed, 05/03/2023 - 14:31

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 Mon, 03/27/2023 - 12:04

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

Lillehoj awarded two NIH grants for HIV, Chagas testing Wed, 03/08/2023 - 14:45

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 Thu, 02/02/2023 - 09:02

Rice research group's findings published in Nature Communications

Marquise Bell receives Materials Research Society best presentation award Thu, 01/05/2023 - 09:17

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

Rice seniors' paper published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI Fri, 11/11/2022 - 09:48

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 Mon, 10/31/2022 - 09:12

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 Wed, 10/26/2022 - 10:47

Announcement made at the iROS Kyoto 2022 Conference in Japan.

Rice doctoral student among 'rising stars' in mechanical engineering Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:37

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 Fri, 09/16/2022 - 10:00

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