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<p>By combining behavioral and wireless eye tracking and neural monitoring, a team of Rice scientists and collaborators studied how pairs of freely moving macaques interacting in a naturalistic setting use visual cues to guide complex, cooperative behavior.</p>

Rising Rice seniors Maria Hancu, Alex Lin, Ryan Wang and Ruofeng “Charlie” Liu are the latest Owls to win the coveted Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious honors bestowed each year upon pioneering STEM undergraduates across the country

Rice University faculty members led by bioengineer Gang Bao have been awarded a $4 million grant by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to establish the Genetic Design and Engineering Center.

Date Time Leebron to step down from Rice presidency in June 2022 Rice University President David Leebron has announced he plans to leave his position at the end of the next academic year after nearly two decades at the helm of one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning. David Leebron Leebron, who has overseen dramatic expansions of Rice’s facilities, student body and research initiatives since his arrival in 2004, will remain at the university through the 2021-2022 academic...

University of Virginia names Jennifer West dean of engineering and applied science Published Saturday, Apr. 24, 2021, 7:39 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© Melinda Fawver – stock.adobe.com) The University of Virginia announced this week the appointment of Jennifer L. West as the 14th dean of the School of Engineering and Appli...

Houston Methodist Houston Methodist, Rice launch neuroprosthetic collaboration Center for Translational Neural Prosthetics and Interfaces to focus on restoring brain function after disease or injury. Neurosurgery’s history of cutting diseases out of the brain is morphing into a future in which implanting technology into the brain may help restore function, movement, cognition, and memory after patients suffer strokes, spinal cord injuries and other neurological disorders. Houston Methodist h...

Rice University, Houston Methodist launch collaboration to solve clinical problems with neurorobotics Neurosurgerys history of cutting diseases out of the brain is morphing into a future in which implanting technology into the brain may help restore function, movement, cognition and memory after patients suffer strokes, spinal cord injuries and other neurological disorders. Rice University and Houston Methodist have forged a partnership to launch the Center for Translational Neural Prosthetics ...