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Patricia Reiff returned from India just in time to destroy Houston. Actually, the culprit is an imaginary comet, and the razing of Rice’s home city is only make-believe. For now.
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Rice physicist Huey Huang is on a quest to understand death — or at least a little piece of it. Huang has spent the past 15 years studying the properties of cell membranes in an effort to unravel the mystery of cell suicide, a mystery that starts with a tiny hole.
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Extending health insurance coverage to all children in the United States would be relatively inexpensive and would yield economic benefits that are greater than the costs, according to new research conducted at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
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Rice is challenging Texans’ notion that bigger is better, particularly when it comes to security-related research. U.S. Department of Defense awards to Rice during fiscal year 2009 totaled more than $32 million, pushing Rice well over the $100 million mark for DOD awards during the past decade.
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Quantum dots have the potential to bring many good things into the world: efficient solar power, targeted gene and drug delivery, solid-state lighting, and advances in biomedical imaging, for example. But they may pose hazards as well.
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Superlenses. Ultra-efficient solar cells. Cloaking devices. Once the stuff of science fiction, these may soon be possible, thanks to a metamaterial that collects light and emits it in a single direction.
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Scientists at Rice University have found a simple way to create sheets of tough, electrically conductive nanomaterial that can be used as basic elements for aircraft, flat-screen TVs, electronics and other products. And the process begins with a zipper.
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When Raymond Johnson stepped to the front of a Rice University classroom for the first time this fall, few of his students realized the significance of the moment. In an extraordinary turn of events, the first black student to earn a degree at Rice had returned as a professor.
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U.S. News & World Report Ranks Rice in the Top 20
U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2010” guide ranks Rice University No. 17 among 262 schools classified as national universities.