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| September 02, 2010 -- Rice University today announced that it has received a $1.8 million federal grant to create a test network using dormant broadcast television channels to deliver wireless high-speed broadband Internet service in Houston's East End neighborhood. More |
| August 28, 2010 -- A unique experiment at Rice University that forces bacteria into a head-to-head competition for evolutionary dominance has yielded new insights about the way Darwinian selection plays out at the molecular level. More |
| August 19, 2010 -- Rice University has announced that it recently ranked 17th in the U.S. News & World Report's guide to America's best colleges. More |
| August 19, 2010 -- Rice University recently announced that a study by the university's geochemists has found that damming and other human activity has "completely obscured the natural carbon dioxide cycle" in the Brazos River. More |
| August 19, 2010 -- Rice University on Tuesday announced that statisticians with the university have confirmed the date of "mitochondrial Eve", the maternal ancestor of all living humans, lived about 200,000 years ago. More |
| August 16, 2010 -- Rice University today announced that it has received federal support to develop a test to determine whether a disease outbreak is caused by a natural pathogen or through bio-terrorism. More |
| August 05, 2010 -- Rice University recently announced that it has ranked first nationally for "Best Quality of Life" in a review of the country's colleges by the Princeton Review. More |
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| August 01, 2010 -- Rice University has announced that the study of quantum phase changes reveals a surprising relationship between magnetism and electricity. More |
| July 29, 2010 -- Rice University on Wednesday announced that a study published by the university's researchers discusses the advantages and disadvantages in the potential widespread use of nanomaterials in construction. More |
| July 22, 2010 -- Rice University this week unveiled a new generation of the university's web-based Flood Alert System, utilizing features of Internet company Google to enable users to see how impending floods will impact particular neighborhoods, streets and buildings in the Brays Bayou watershed. More |
| July 19, 2010 -- Rice University today announced that it has received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a treatment to spur the growth of new cartilage in injured knees and other joints. More |
| July 16, 2010 -- Rice University recently announced that scientists with the university have found a solvent for varieties of carbon nanotubes, which "brings the creation of a highly conductive quantum nanowire ever closer". More |
| June 24, 2010 -- Rice University today announced that biomedical engineers from the university and researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have created an inexpensive device, using an "off-the-shelf" camera, capable of distinguishing cancerous cells from healthy cells. More |
| June 13, 2010 -- Researchers at Rice University, Purdue University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have solved a long-standing mystery about why some fluids containing polymers, including saliva, form beads when they are stretched and others do not. More |
| May 31, 2010 -- A team of U.S. and Chinese physicists, including scientists from Rice University are studying a new class of high-temperature superconductors, a family of iron-based compounds called "pnictides". More |
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| May 28, 2010 -- Rice University on Thursday announced that scientists have created a way to use the university's light-activated nanoshells as "building blocks" for 2-D and 3-D structures. More |
| May 26, 2010 -- Rice University's Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center today unveiled a report on detailing the vulnerabilities to a major hurricane in the Houston/Galveston region. More |
| May 23, 2010 -- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute on May 20 awarded a $1.2 million, four-year grant to continue Rice University's successful undergraduate global health program Beyond Traditional Borders. More |
| May 09, 2010 -- Rice University students Lauren Theis and Lila Kerr created the Sally Centrifuge, which could help diagnose anemia globally, as part of a class on global health, and will take it overseas this summer for testing in developing countries. More |
| May 09, 2010 -- A diagnostic tool developed by Rice University scientists to detect heart attacks using a person’s saliva is being tested at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. More |
| May 07, 2010 -- Rice University on Thursday announced that research by scientists at Rice and the University of Cambridge has found a trio of regulatory proteins that may act as "master regulators" that guide the differentiation of stem cells. More |
| May 02, 2010 -- A new book, "Transformative Concepts for Drug Design: Target Wrapping" by Rice University bioengineering professor Ariel Fernandez, suggests new methods the pharmaceutical industry can use to improve its bottom line today. More |
| May 02, 2010 -- Rice University chemists, using a rare metal that's not utilized by nature, have created a synthetic enzyme that could help unlock the identities of thousands of difficult-to-study proteins, including many that play key roles in cancer and other diseases. More |
| April 22, 2010 -- Rice University computer scientist Moshe Y. Vardi has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More |
| March 26, 2010 -- Rice University on Tuesday announced that researchers with the university recently collaborated with a team to finish development of a precise description of the movements of tectonic plates on the Earth's surface. More |
| March 18, 2010 -- Rice University today celebrated the 80th birthday of the statue of founder William Marsh Rice, and offered cake with a small replica of the statue that turned 180 degrees, recalling a prank played in 1988 where students rotated the statue. More |
| March 17, 2010 -- The Association of Fundraising Professionals today announced that it has awarded the Campbell & Company Award for Excellence in Fundraising to Rice University. More |
| March 16, 2010 -- Rice University, in cooperation with Indiana University, on Monday announced the publication of a study showing that a symbiotic fungus living inside fescue grass can have "far-reaching effects on plant, animal and insect communities". More |
| March 15, 2010 -- Rice University today announced that a new system to create "3-D" cell culture growth has been developed using technology licensed from the university and M.D. Anderson. More |
| March 03, 2010 -- Rice University on Tuesday announced that it has been named one of the best 50 institutions for studying computer game design according to a survey by The Princeton Review. More |
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