Rice hosted representatives from Tuskegee University March 27-28, 2024 to discuss opportunities regarding academic and research collaborations. The two universities signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue these efforts: https://news.rice.edu/news/2024/rice-partners-tuskegee-pursue-research-collaborations
During Fall 2023 a group from the Army Research Lab (ARL) visited the Rice campus. They met with RUNSRA faculty, Rice Administration, and toured the Ralph S. O'Connor Building for Engineering Science, the RUNSRA Diamond Lab, the Baker Institute for Public Policy, the BioScience Research Collaborative and the Ion District. The following Rice research groups participated in a poster session for the ARL visit: Ajayan Lab, Biswal Lab, Brake Lab, Hulet Lab, Knightly Lab, Marti Lab, O'Malley Lab, Pagano Lab, Sabharwal Lab, Schaefer Lab, Segarra Lab, Tour Lab, Wong Lab, Xiao Lab.
Also during Fall 2023, Brett Seidle, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, Test and Engineering, visited the Rice campus. Dr. Seidle met with the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (NROTC), RUNSRA faculty, Rice Administration, and toured the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen and RUNSRA Diamond Lab. Vinod Veedu, RUNSRA Executive Director, led the visit along with Nathan Cook, Rice’s Senior Director of Government Relations: Rice University welcomes US Navy research official on campus visit
RUNSRA researchers in the news!
Legos for wireless research: Rice-led university consortium tackles the future of wireless with $4.5M NSF award (Sabharwal Lab)
Grant backs research on teaching networks to make better decisions (Segarra & Sabharwal Labs)
New O'Connor Building for Engineering and Science Tour (Wong Lab)
Knightly awarded U.S. Army grant to counter 6G, Wi-Fi risks (Knightly Lab)
Wong receives AIChE's Lawrence K. Cecil Award (Wong Lab)
Rice lab’s boron nitride composite could be useful for advanced technology applications (Ajayan Lab)
Rice University ECE and Army Research Lab scientists win IEEE ICC Best Paper Award (Sabharwal Lab)
ECE Researchers Awarded ACM HotMobile 23 Best Demo (Knightly Lab)
Santiago Segarra awarded Army Early Career Program (ECP) Award (Segarra Lab)