Rice University alumna Sarah Hooper ‘17 has been awarded a prestigious 2018 Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship for graduate education. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Stanford University, where she is developing new medical imaging devices and computational tools for better and more accessible diagnosis.
Rice University researchers Junichiro Kono and Fumiya Katsutani observed a novel quantum effect in their carbon nanotube film that could lead to the development of near-infrared lasers and other optoelectronic devices.
Rice students Nishant Verma, a junior in bioengineering (BIOE) , Manuel Pacheco, a sophomore in electrical and computer engineering (ECE), Fasai Phuathavornskul, a junior in ECE, and Patricia DaSilva, a senior in BIOE, created For the Love of Learning, an electronics outreach class for kids in grades six through nine.
Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope, a thin fluorescent microscope whose abilities promise to surpass those of old-school devices. A paper in Science Advances by Rice engineers Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Richard Baraniuk and their labs describes a wide-field microscope thinner than a credit card, small enough to sit on a fingertip and capable of micrometer resolution over a volume of several cubic millimeters.
During the competition, 10 graduate students, including ECE's Aswathy Girija, had just three minutes and a single slide to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance.
Rice University researchers have won a prestigious National Institutes of Health grant to build data analysis tools and analyze how exposure to mixed toxins in the environment affects a population, especially children.
“The project will produce a platform technology for in vivo, 3-D tissue imaging, with the aim of being able to point a camera to a part of the body and see live biology below the skin without making an incision or drawing blood,” said Rice Professor Ashutosh Sabharwal, the principal investigator on the grant.
STAT Madness is a bracket-style contest to find the best innovation in science and medicine and this year, Rice has two entries: the FlatScope out of ECE and the Single-molecule Drill out of Chemistry.
The proposal is titled “Scaling-up Machine Learning via Probabilistic Hashing.” They will receive $80,000 in funding and an additional $20,000 in Amazon Web Services Promotional Credits to pursue their research.
Lihong Wang, who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering while working with two Nobel Laureates at Rice, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which cited him for his “inventions in photoacoustic microscopy enabling functional, metabolic, and molecular imaging in vivo.”
