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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Brain-to-brain communication demo receives DARPA funding Fri, 02/26/2021 - 10:10
Wireless linkage of brains may soon go to human testing
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Samantha Fuentes and Nicholas Glaze announced as this year's ECE Chevron Scholarship winners Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:30
The award is granted to undergraduate students pursuing a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Phil Layton Award of Excellence in the Arts goes to ECE student, Zach Alvear Wed, 12/16/2020 - 19:12
Zach Alvear was recognized for his contributions to music and the Rice community as a whole by participating in Mariachi Luna Llena, Rice University's student-run professional mariachi group.
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Frank Yang, ECE senior, receives Best Poster Award, Fall 2020 for the Materials Research Society Tue, 12/15/2020 - 17:48
Yang's poster was recognized along with 19 other winners from universities worldwide
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Santiago Segarra presented with the 2020 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award Tue, 12/15/2020 - 15:01
Award winning paper focused on network topology inference from spectral templates