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Fulbright scholarship winner Jonah Shaver heads to France to expand nanotechnology research (July 2008)
Newsweek.com: Houston, We Have No Problems, 6.30.08
Forbes.com: Houston among Best Cities for Recent College Grads, 6.26.08
Rice again picked for TI's Leadership University Program, 6.26.08
ACM TechNews: Designing microchips that contain multiple selves, 6.13.08
newKerala.com: Microchips that contain multiple 'personalities' may protect intellectual property, 6.12.08
Designing microchips that contain multiple selves, 6.12.08
vnunet.com: Feature on Farinaz Koushanfar's research on "n-variant" chips, 6.12.08
Open-education pioneer wins Berkman Award for Internet innovation, 5.20.08
Connexions wins $2M from Hewlett Foundation, 5.15.08
Drezek named Duncan winner, 5.8.08
Presidential Mentoring Award goes to Cox, Drezek, 5.8.08
PC World: Dan Wallach quoted on e-mail backscattering, 5.5.08
ACM TechNews: Ed Knightly mentioned in article on NSF grand to study in-home health management and next generation wireless networks, 5.2.08
MIT Technology Review: Frank Tittel quoted on development of compact chemical sensor, 4.30.08
Chronicle for Higher Education: Connexions mentioned in article on "The Wired Campus", 4.29.08
Kansas City Star: Dan Wallach quoted on rise of server farms in the Midwest, 4.26.08
Richards-Kortum receives 2008 IMPACT Award, 4.25.08
Rice, Methodist and TFA receive $1.5 million NSF grant to study in-home health management and next-generation wireless networks, 4.24.08
Rice, Lockheed Martin parter on nanotech research, 4.22.08
Sensors Magazine: Baraniuk mentioned in an article on new ways of connecting with information and other people, 4.18.08
NewScientistTech: Dan Mittleman quoted on terahertz technology, 4.16.08
Bright future awaits Gillenwater, winner of the NSF Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (April 2008)
Science News for Kids: Mittleman explains terahertz rays, 4.16.08
Kudos for NDSEG fellowship winner Layla Boosheri (April 2008)
Jaret Lee wins KAUST Discovery Award (April 2008)
Hindustan Times: Alum Vinay Ribeiro (MS '99, PhD '05) quoted on India's "reverse brain drain", 4.12.08
Baraniuk receives 2008 SPIE Wavelet Pioneer Award (March 2008)
Three graduate specialties at Rice rank among top 10 nationally, 3.28.08
ECE congratulates recipients of awards from Nokia Siemens Networks (March 2008)
Innovative seniors impress Schlumberger with award-winning designs
Rice ranked No. 5 best value by Kiplinger, 3.13.08
Houston Chronicle: Naomi Halas and Jennifer West mentioned in "Next generation of 'smart' drugs", 3.16.08
ECE/Applied Physics Alum Richard Averitt (MS '94, PhD '98) has received a DARPA 2008 Young Faculty Award, 3.20.08
Kartik Mohanram wins prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2008)
Forbes.com: Houston makes list of Top 10 Up-And-Coming Tech Cities, 3.10.08
DailyIndia: Research by Farinaz Koushanfar, assistant professor in ECE - New technology uses microchip fingerprints to combat chip pirates, 3.12.08
Rice undergrads win top awards at design competition (including team mentored by ECE's Lin Zhong), 2.26.08
Rice forms nano Carbon Center (nC2) to replace Carbon Nanotechnology Lab, 2.21.08
LabTechnologist.com: Douglas Natelson and Naomi Halas quoted in article on Natelson's work on single molecule-sensors, 2.13.08
KHOU-TV: Ed Knightly quoted in story on plan to provide wireless internet to working-class neighborhoods in Houston, 2.5.08
LiveScience.com: Daniel Mittleman, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, is featured in an article in which he explains X-rays, 2.12.08
Tulsa World: NanoJapan program at TU wins recognition, 2.3.08
eSchoolNews: Connexions founder Richard Baraniuk and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales are cited in an article on Florida's adoption of FreeReading.net to its approved list of reading curriculum resources, 1.24.08
Houston Chronicle: An article about the UP Experience conference mentions that Richard Baraniuk will speak about Connexions at the event, 2.1.08
EurekAlert: Rice wins innovation award for international program, 1.28.08
The Way I See It: Bringing open resources to textbooks and teaching, 1.24.08
San Francisco Chronicle: Bringing open resources to textbooks and teaching, 1.22.08
IndiaPost.com - IIT Bombay signs on MoU with Rice University, 1.20.08
Rice and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay sign memorandum, 1.18.08
Oshmans and National Instruments give major gifts to Rice for engineering design facility, 1.11.08
TGDaily: Doug Natelson, associate professor of physics and astronomy and in electrical and computer engineering, is quoted on his team's recent discovery of the phase-switching properties of magnetite, 12.18.07
The Hindu: Rice is mentioned in an article on Texas Instruments' Leadership University program, 1.07.08
CITI renamed 'Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology', 12.7.07
HPCwire: CITI Renamed to Honor Ken Kennedy, 12.7.07
Halas named IEEE fellow, 11.07
CNN.com: Learn about Connexions, 11.8.07
Rice's electrical engineering and computer science programs rank No. 1, 11.30.07
Sidney Burrus awarded AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 10.25.07
Halas receives honorary doctorate from LaSalle University, 10.12.07
ECE researchers share best paper award, 9.17.07
Rice engineers show off latest high-tech prototypes, 9.13.07
So wins best presentation award at MIRTHE conference, 9.03.07
Technology Review: Partha Ranganathan TR35 2007 Young Innovator, 9.07
Liebschner and Zhong receive funding from Microsoft Research Biomedical Computing program
Rahmati, Qian, and Zhong Receive the MobileHCI Best Paper Award (September 2007)
So wins best presentation award at MIRTHE conference (August 2007)
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