Rice University
Houston, TX·Private
24 labs on PI Pages. It spends $278M a year on research and awards 267 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 9,166: 4,836 undergraduates, 4,330 graduate
- Postdocs
- 231
- Faculty
- 779 full-time
- Campus
- Highly residential
Labs here
Cameron Glasscock
Biochemistry
Use AI-based computational protein design to create DNA-binding proteins that selectively recognize the hairpin and bulge structures formed at slip-outs of pathogenic expanded repeats, rather than linear sequence.
David Sarlah
Chemistry
Develop a stereoselective olefination, a double-bond-forming reaction that controls 3D shape, to efficiently build the strained [5.3.2] bicyclic ring system of the cripowellin alkaloids.
Vinicius Contessoto
Biophysics
Develop ChromVAE, a variational autoencoder (a generative neural network) trained on high-resolution DNA-tracing data, to learn a compact map of chromatin folding and generate new chromosome structures consistent with experiments.
Shihong Lin
Engineering
Establish how ultrashort charge–discharge cycling at specific electrode charge levels keeps electrode voltages stable in Electrochemical Ion Pumping (EIP), an electrical method for separating salts from metals.
Elizabeth Roberto
Social Science·Early-career
Measure how road network connectivity relates to residential spatial variation and proximity to local public services across U.S. cities, using spatial and network analysis of road networks and demographic data.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.