Press Releases

• 01/07/2021 -Simple bioreactor makes ‘gut check’ more practical
• 03/30/2020 – Class acts, from a distance
• 12/6/2019 – 2019 IBB Hamill Innovation Award winners announced
• 12/5/2019 – World’s third-largest comics festival will provide showcase for VADA professors 
• 8/16/2019 – IBB rewards top posters by summer interns
• 8/5/2019 – Paper trail leads to heart valve discoveries
• 7/25/2019 – Soft micro-monitors keep tabs on oxygen in new tissues
• 8/13/2018 – IBB rewards top posters by summer interns
• 6/27/2018 – Feds back study of congenital heart disease
• 2/19/2019 – What can cartoonists teach engineers?
• 5/5/2017 – Rice LIFT: 61 presentations make for ‘inspiring afternoon’
• 4/12/2017 – Robot costume with a cause
• 3/20/2017 – Grande-Allen named BIOE Chair
• 1/25/2017 – Rice’s new Summer Cardiovascular Research Internship Program focuses on heart disease
• 1/9/2017 – 3 teams of Rice-UTHealth faculty win research grants to study children’s health
• 12/20/2016 – Heart valves strive to get oxygen one way or another
• 11/7/2016 – 6 Rice faculty win Simmons mini-collaborative research grants
• 10/21/2016 – 3 Rice bioengineering graduate students win prestigious Kirschstein NRSA fellowships
• 6/16/2016 – Grande-Allen named to lead Rice IBB
• 5/11/2016 – Study probes heart of synthetic heart valves
• 4/25/2014 – Faculty, staff honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring, service
• 12/7/2015 – Grants give bioscience research a bump
• 11/23/2015 – Two Rice University professors elected AAAS fellows
• 11/9/2015 – Grande-Allen named fellow of Society of Experimental Mechanics
• 3/16/2015 – Designing a better way to study stomach flu
• 10/22/2014 – Rice part of NIH diversity consortium
• 10/20/2014 – High blood sugars may harden heart valves
• 10/6/2014 – Grande-Allen named AHA fellow
• 6/2014 – Grande-Allen lab research in valve disease supported by summer funding sweep
• 01/2014 – Clotting protein hardens aging valves
• 7/29/2013 – Grande-Allen named BMES fellow
• 08/2013 – Grad student Dan Puperi and lab alumni Aditya Kumar and Bagrat Grigoryan named NSF fellows
• 06/2013 – Rice U. bioengineers Liezl Balaoing and Varun Krishnamurthy earn American Heart Association
• fellowships
• 3/8/2013 – Researcher find drug to bolster healthy hearts
• 2/20/2013 – Discovery spurred by unique twist of fate
• 01/2013 – Patrick Connell wins American Heart Association fellowship
• 01/2013 – Monica Fahrenholtz chosen for P.E.O. Scholar Award
• 1/24/2013 – Maglev tissues could speed toxicity tests
• 4/17/2012 – Texas Children’s Hospital awarded grants for research
• 4/15/2012 – 20 NSF fellowships awarded to Rice students for graduate study
• 1/19/2012 – Grande-Allen wins Heart Association Award
• 1/9/2012 – Simmons Family Foundation awards collaborative research grants
• 1/9/2012 – Grande-Allen wins AHA Established Investigator Award
• 1/5/2012 – Simmons Family Foundation awards collaborative research grants
• 1/5/2012 – Rice’s Grande-Allen wins AHA Established Investigator Award
• 12/2/2011 – Congratulations to the 2012 AAS Student Research Award Winners
• 10/19/2011 – 2011 IBB Hamill Awards and Medical Innovations Awards Announced
• 10/19/2011 – Research teams win IBB, Hamill Awards – Rice, Texas Medical Center collaborators take on projects from macro to micro
• 10/10/2011 – 2011 Rice BIOE Fall News (PDF)
• 04/22/2011 – 2011 IBB Mary F.D. Morse Graduate Fellows announced
• 04/19/2011 – Rice wins $1.2 million for heart-valve tissue research
• 04/19/2011 – NIH funds four-year study of new materials for growing replacement heart valves
• 03/24/2011 – Rice alumnus earns Soros fellowship
• 02/09/2011 – Colvin, Grande-Allen elected AIMBE fellows
• 10/01/2010 – Predoctoral Fellowship backs cardiovascular, stroke research
• 09/24/2010 – Two win American Heart Association fellowships
• 09/23/2010 – Two Rice bioengineering grad students win American Heart Association fellowships
• 08/12/2010 – Rice’s Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering funds new collaborations
• 08/04/2010 – Bioengineer recognized for research into structure-function relationship of heart valves
• 06/23/2010 – Jane Grande-Allen selected for A.J. Durelli Award by Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.
• 01/12/2010 – Simmons Family Foundation awards collaborative research grants
• 05/08/2009 – Grande-Allen, Patten earn Presidential Mentoring Award
• 12/27/2008 – Rice student wins prestigious Marshall Scholarship
• 09/24/2008 – NIH pumps funds into Rice student’s work on replacement valves for children
• 06/12/2008 – Thirteen Faculty Initiatives Fund proposals awarded grants
• 05/01/2008 – IBB awards 2008 Hamill Innovation grants
• 02/15/2008 – Shuai Xu named to 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team by USA Today
• 04/19/2007 – Two engineering students win Goldwater Scholarships
• 04/20/2006 – Grad student wins Hertz Fellowship
• 02/09/2006 – Researchers take aim at causes of heart-valve disease
• 07/21/2005 – Hamill Foundation funds innovation program at Rice
• 05/26/2005 – Jane wins Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
• 01/27/2005 – Study discovers deficiencies in heart valves