AMD appoints carbon nanotubes pioneer Ajayan to advisory panel
An article features Pulickel Ajayan, chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and a professor of chemistry, who has been named to Advanced Material Development’s advisory panel to enable cross-collaboration between the company’s U.K. research teams and experts at Rice.
Proactive Investors (This article also appeared in Before It’s News.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-ajayan
How to fix apartments
An article quotes Stephen Klineberg, founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and an emeritus professor of sociology.
Yield Pro
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-klineberg
‘Smart cells’ show promise to treat disease
Laura Segatori, associate professor of bioengineering, has been awarded a four-year, $1.8 million grant National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant to develop gene activity sensors and activators that may hold opportunities for treating diabetes, cancer, infectious diseases and genetic disorders.
Nanowerk
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-segatori
Woven nanotube fibers turn heat into power
An article features collaborative Rice research developing small carbon nanotube fibers for textile electronics and energy harvesting. Co-authors include Junichiro Kono, the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor in Engineering and a professor of electrical and computer engineering, of physics and astronomy, and of materials science and nanoengineering; Matteo Pasquali, the A.J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of chemistry, and director of the Carbon Hub; Geoff Wehmeyer, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; and graduate students Natsumi Komatsu, Oliver Dewey, Lauren Taylor and Mitchell Trafford.
Phys.org (This article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-kono-et-al
Software startup reimagines CPUs — not GPUs — as host for advanced AI
Anshumali Shrivastava, assistant professor of computer science, is featured.
All About Circuits
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-shrivastava
Going back to the office, and bringing baggage
Jennifer Latson, editor of Rice Business Wisdom, authored an essay. Mikki Hebl, the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Chair of Psychology at Rice’s School of Social Sciences and professor of management at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
Psychology Today (This article also appeared in Psychology Today U.K.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-latson-hebl
‘Reinforcing Resilience’
Alumnus Ed Emmett ’71, fellow in energy and transportation policy at the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, participated in the webinar “Reinforcing Resilience: The Role of Communications in Disaster Response and Recovery.”
Pierpont
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-emmett
‘Reinforcing Resilience: The Role of Communications in Disaster Response and Recovery’
IABC Houston on YouTube
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-emmett
Blue Origin sues NASA over HLS Award
An article mentions President John F. Kennedy’s “moon speech,” which was delivered at Rice Sept. 12, 1962.
SpacePolicyOnline.com
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-kennedy
Helpful house design has an eye on history
An article features graduate student Rae Atkinson, who won first place in the American Institute of Architects Houston chapter’s Gulf Coast Green Student Competition to design a “self-help hub” for residents in Houston’s Fourth Ward.
Commercial Construction & Renovation (A similar article also appeared in Newsbreak.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-atkinson
People
A roundup features alumna Juliana Herman, a graduate of Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Hydrocarbon Processing
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-herman
Developing new technologies to solve the mysteries of the brain
Former Rice postdoctoral researcher Flavia Vitale is featured.
Penn Medicine News
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-penn-med
Charles Robinson has been named interim chancellor of the University of Arkansas
Alumnus Charles Robinson is featured.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-robinson
Five things you need to know about home equity and college costs
A roundup mentions Rice.
WealthManagement.com
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-wm
Why outdoor advertising in Houston is so effective
Rice is mentioned.
The Science Times
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-tst |
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