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Houston professor earned $500,000 grant to tap into digital twin tech for...
A University of Houston professor has received a grant from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of how bridges are inspected in the state. The...
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Annual student startup competition in Houston names teams for 2024
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship announced the 42 student-led teams worldwide that will compete in the highly competitive Rice Business Plan Competition this spring. The annual...
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Houston student selected for prestigious health care research program
A Houston-area undergraduate student has been tapped for a prestigious national program that pairs early-career investigators with health research professionals.Mielad Ziaee was selected for the...
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Houston researcher scores prestigious NSF award for machine learning, power...
An associate professor at the University of Houston received the highly competitive National Science Foundation CAREER Award earlier this month for a proposal focused on integrating renewable...
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Houston physicist scores $15.5M grant for high-energy nuclear physics research
A team of Rice University physicists has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Physics for their work in high-energy nuclear physics and research into a...
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Houston organizations launch collaborative center to boost cancer outcomes
Rice University's new Synthesis X Center officially launched last month to bring together experts in cancer care and chemistry. The center was born out of what started about seven years ago as...
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Houston university lands $2.5M grant to expand STEM scholarship program for...
Rice University will expand its Rice Emerging Scholars Program (RESP) over the next two years thanks to a recent grant from the National Science Foundation. The $2.5 million in NSF funding will allow...
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UH inks international partnership for energy transition innovation
The University of Houston and Heriot-Watt University in Scotland signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this month that celebrates an official partnership between the schools in education,...
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Houston fitness entrepreneur serves up smart baby gear line
Ashley Gooch has taken her entrepreneurial spirit from the fitness studio to the finger foods. The Houston-based founder of high-end cycling studio RYDE and mom of three has launched a new baby gear...
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Houston students develop underwater robot with energy-efficient buoyancy control
A team of Rice University engineering students has developed a new way for underwater robots to move around, save power and work more efficiently and quietly. The robot uses reversible hydrogen fuel...
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Houston university breaks ground on $54.5M project to expand business school
Rice University broke ground last week on an innovative $54.5 million building for the Jones Graduate School of Business that is designed to be built around the current structure and also integrate...
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Houston college lands $5M NASA grant to launch new aerospace research center
The University of Houston was one of seven minority-serving institutions to receive a nearly $5 million grant this month to support aerospace research focused on extending human presence on the moon...
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Rice University inks strategic partnership with French research institution
Rice University and Université Paris Sciences & Lettres signed a strategic partnership agreement last week that states that the two institutions will work together on research on some of today's...
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Rice accelerator names innovative second summer cohort
Rice University's Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, or Lilie, has named eight teams to the second cohort of the Lilie Summer Venture Studio. The teams are focused on a range of...
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Houston university awards grant to Texas accelerator to support sports tech
Rice University awarded DivInc. an $800,000 grant this month to support its work in sports technology. The Texas-based company, which operates numerous accelerators, focuses on BIPOC and female...
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Houston lab sees progress with breakthrough light-harvesting processes
A groundbreaking Rice University lab has made further strides in its work to make harvesting light energy more efficient and stable.Presented on the cover of a June issue of Science, a study from Rice...
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University of Houston names new executive, partnership amid energy transition
The University of Houston has made two big moves in growing its role in supporting the Houston energy transition.UH to explore repurposing offshore tech for clean energy with new partnershipThe...
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Houston Airports rollout innovative fleet of fire rescue vehicles
Houston Airports and the Houston Fire Department will roll out a new fleet of eco-friendly and health-promoting vehicles this summer. Four new Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) trucks will be...
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Houston chemist lands $2M NIH grant for cancer treatment research
A Rice University chemist has landed a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Health for his work that aims to reprogram the genetic code and explore the role certain cells play in causing...
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Houston engineers develop breakthrough device to advance spinal cord treatment
A team of Rice University engineers has developed an implantable probe over a hundred times smaller than the width of a hair that aims to help develop better treatments for spinal cord disease and...
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