Eta Kappa Nu hosts digital induction ceremony for rising juniors and seniors Sun, 05/09/2021 - 18:39

Students gather virtually to celebrate scholastic achievements.

Wearable glucose monitors shed light on progression of Type 2 diabetes in Hispanic/Latino adults Mon, 05/03/2021 - 10:36

Study points to new directions for improved diabetes care

Help may be at hand for hair-pulling Mon, 05/03/2021 - 10:14

Rice students develop glove-based sensor for those with trichotillomania

Rice names architect for new engineering and science building Wed, 04/28/2021 - 14:02

SOM to oversee structure that will replace historic Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory

Houston Methodist, Rice U. launch neuroprosthetic collaboration Wed, 04/21/2021 - 11:05

Center for Translational Neural Prosthetics and Interfaces to focus on restoring brain function after disease, injury

Rice team vying for $1 million Solar Desalination Prize Wed, 04/21/2021 - 10:19

System is designed to run around the clock using only solar energy

Rice PhD student, Yang Zhao receives 2020-21 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship Thu, 04/01/2021 - 14:58

Zhao's research has focused on developing AI hardware acceleration, computer architecture, and design automation tools for AI and their system security.

Akane Sano wins NSF CAREER Award Mon, 03/29/2021 - 12:12

Engineer developing software to predict emotional stress from wearable and Internet of Things tech

Introducing Rice's Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering (MECE) Program to future students Mon, 03/22/2021 - 10:55

Faculty and Program Administrators meet virtually with students to highlight course offerings for the MECE program

Computational Wellbeing Group at Rice University seeks participants for remote productivity research study Thu, 03/18/2021 - 10:06

The Computational Wellbeing research group is seeking participants for a 30-day paid virtual study of learning daily behaviors and working productivity.

Rice’s OpenStax making diversity updates to free, openly licensed textbooks Wed, 03/17/2021 - 14:37

OpenStax reaffirmed its commitment to improving equity in education for all, including marginalized groups

Naomi Halas on Being a Scientist: ‘We need to be attracted to the big, hard problems’ Mon, 03/15/2021 - 11:24

Nanotech pioneer aims to pursue grand challenges rather than just write about them

How Tarence Rice Jr.'s dad led him to research drones and wireless communications Mon, 03/08/2021 - 09:11

The Detroit native grew up watching the Science Channel and now he works in Edward Knightly's Rice Networks Group

Brain-to-brain communication demo receives DARPA funding Fri, 02/26/2021 - 10:10

Wireless linkage of brains may soon go to human testing

Rice’s Yingyan Lin receives NSF CAREER Award Fri, 02/26/2021 - 09:45

Engineer recognized for advances in ubiquitous on-device intelligence and green AI

Rice ECE helps launch Embench 1.0 Benchmark Suite for IoT Class Fri, 02/05/2021 - 11:36

Embench provides an excellent industry-standard, open-source set of benchmarks that enable users to make complex design decisions

Rice Eclipse Rocketry Team receives grant from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Fri, 02/05/2021 - 09:30

The $1,000 grant will be used to fund the new ARCA engine control hardware and develop an actively-guided parachute recovery system for Eclipse's rockets

Esteemed Professor, Yuji Zhao will be joining Rice ECE, July 2021 Mon, 02/01/2021 - 10:42

Zhao, joining the department as an Associate Professor, previously led a research group focused on semiconductor materials and devices at Arizona State University

Rice alum and faculty member are a part of award-winning team that received the CZI Award to help to fund and advance biomedical imaging Tue, 01/26/2021 - 16:27

Lihong Wang, Rice Alum and Junichiro Kono, current Rice ECE Professor, were Co-Principle Investigators on project awarded 1M.

An Automated Early Warning System to Help Doctors Save Babies Fri, 01/15/2021 - 14:47

Rice D2K Lab students working with Texas Children’s Hospital created machine-learning algorithms to increase detection time before cardiac arrest