Barron lab technology wins grant to develop flexible solar panels 
  A process created in the laboratory of Rice University Professor Andrew
  Barron is at the root of new solar-energy technology that has drawn major
  investment from the federal government.

   'Silicon with afterburners' developed at Rice could be boon to
  electronics manufacturers 
  Silicon is at the heart of an electronics revolution that has buoyed the
  civilized world for decades. But as time goes on and technology advances,
  it's becoming apparent that silicon could use a little help. Jim Tour's Rice
  University laboratory is manipulating molecules that might just be the ticket
  to extending Moore's Law, the theory that dictates the number of transistors
  that can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles about every two years.

  Student researchers get a piece of the pie in the BRC            
  Last week, Vicki Colvin and her lab group became the first pioneering
  researchers to move into Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative, a
  place  where scientists and educators from Rice University and Texas
  Medical  Center institutions can work together to perform leading
  research that benefits human medicine and health.

  High schoolers don lab gear for Project SEED at Rice 
  Here are two lessons worth learning: Be nice to everyone, and never
  discount the value of a chance meeting. Two Greater Houston high
  schoolers working their dream summer jobs at Rice University are
  glad graduate student Alvin Orbaek put those lessons into practice.

  Project GRAD summer institutes at Rice prepare summer    
  hopefuls
  To provide resources that help Houston Independent School District's 
  underserved students enter and excel in college, Rice University
  facilitated institutes this summer geared toward at-risk high school
  students from underserved communities in Houston.

  Congratulations in order!      
  Please join us in congratulating Eugene Zubarev on his promotion to    
  Associate Professor effective July 1, 2009.  Eugene joined Rice
  University in 2005 as Norman Hackerman Assistant Professor of   
  Chemistry.  His current research is focused on self-assembly, 
  synthesis of gold nanostructures, and hybrid materials.

   Lab-on-a-Chip Technology to Arrive at the BRC 
  John T. McDevitt has joined the Rice University faculty as the Brown-Wiess
  Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering effective July 1, 2009.  John
  and his research group have relocated from University of Texas at Austin
  to the BioScience Research Collaborative  (BRC) as one of the first
  occupants of the building.  We welcome John to Houston and Rice and
  look forward to his future endeavors with "Lab-on-a Chip" sensor 
  technology.

  Christy F. Landes joins the Chemistry Department  
  Christy F. Landes has joined the Rice University faculty as Assistant 
  Professor of Chemistry effective July 1, 2009.  Christy joins the Rice
  Faculty after three years as Assistant Professor at the University of
  Houston where she studied dynamic heterogeneity and its role in
  biological and synthetic materials function.  Please help us in
  welcoming Christy to Rice!

   Rice Graduate Students journey to Germany to meet laureates         
  Any young scientist will tell you it's a thrill to talk shop with a Nobel Prize 
  laureate. So what must it be like to encounter 20 of them at once? In less  
  than a month, Andria Denmon and Ashley Leonard will have the answer.

  Michael Wong receives 2009 Hamill Innovation grant       
  Rice's Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering has awarded Hamill    
  Innovation Grants to three new cross-disciplinary collaborative research  
  projects by Rice faculty. 

  IN fight against HIV, Rice lab goes international     
  With HIV cases continuing to spread across the globe, the fight against  
  the deadly virus remains a worldwide effort.  That's why Rice University's 
  Andrew Barron is enlisting the help of internmational scientists.  Working  
  with labs in Italy, Germany and Greece, Barron's research team is seeking
  a molecular method to block the virus from spreading. 

  Tour honored by Houston Technology Center    
  Rice Professor James Tour was one of six high-profile Houstonians    
  honored at the 10th anniversary celebration of the Houston Technology     
  Center this week, earning a special achievement award for his   
  advances in nanotechnology.
 

  Pasquali earns kudos for outstanding service to graduate student    
  education 
  Shakespeare takes the stage alongside nanotechnology this year as the  
  Graduate Student Association (GSA) recognizes English's Dennis Huston  
  and chemical engineering's Matteo Pasquali with the GSA's Faculty  
  Teaching/Mentoring Awards. The awards are presented annually to Rice 
  faculty who demonstrate outstanding service to graduate student
  education. 

  2009 Chemistry Awards Presented at Awards/Graduate Reception  
  This years recipients were announced in a combined Awards and 
  Graduate reception May 8th.  Both undergraduate and graduate student
  award recipients were invited to attend the reception where their awards
  were presented.  Congratualtions to this years award recipients! 

  Rice Professor Naomi Halas, alums John Doerr and Karen Davis 
  elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  The Rice University scientist, along with two Rice alums, philanthropist
  John Doerr and economist Karen Davis, joined the reclusive novelist, the
  U2 singer and a host of others renowned in their fields when they were
  elected members of the prestigious American Academy of Arts &
  Sciences.

  Rice course goes the distance
  High school science teachers in Greater Houston and Colorado are taking
  part in a bold experiment by Rice and the University of Colorado at
  Boulder's ATLAS Institute to share a class taught both here and there.
  It's a perfect example of the way Rice is reaching beyond the hedges to
  help the community, a prime goal of the Vision for the Second Century.

  Nanotube's 'tapestry' controls its growth 
  Rice University materials scientists have put a new "twist" on carbon
  nanotube growth. The researchers found the highly touted nanomaterials
  grow like tiny molecular tapestries, woven from twisting, single-atom
  threads.

  Ajayan group creates hybrid nanocables to improve lithium battery 
  technology 
  Need to store electricity more efficiently? Put it behind bars.
  That's essentially the finding of a team of Rice University researchers who
  have created hybrid carbon-nanotube/metal-oxide arrays as electrode
  material that may improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries.

  Rice Rolls Out New Nanocars
  This year's model isn't your father's nanocar. It runs cool.
  The drivers of Rice University's nanocars were surprised to find modified
  versions of their creation have the ability to roll at room temperature.
  While practical applications for the tiny machines may be years away,
  the breakthrough suggests they'll be easier to adapt to a wider range of
  uses than the originals, which had to be heated to 200 degrees Celsius
  before they could move across a surface.

  Rice’s James Tour wins Feynman Prize
  James Tour, the inventor of the nanocar at Rice University, has been
  awarded the prestigious Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for experimental
  nanotechnology for 2008 by the California think tank dedicated to the
  beneficial implementation of nanotechnology. Tour was one of four
  nominees for the prize, specifically for his work on the synthesis of
  nanocars, molecule-sized vehicles with buckyball wheels that served as
  an experiment to explore the possibility of building working machines
  at such a scale.