



- Sep 22, 2016
Rice’s Rebecca Richards-Kortum named MacArthur Fellow. Global-health pioneer is first Houston scien
Rice University bioengineer and global-health pioneer Rebecca Richards-Kortum has received a coveted MacArthur Fellowship. Richards-Kortum, the founder and director of Rice’s award-winning Rice 360º Institute for Global Health, is the first Houston scientist, the first Houston woman and the first Rice faculty member to win the award. Richards-Kortum, Rice’s Malcolm Gillis University Professor, professor of bioengineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering, w
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- Sep 16, 2016
Rice lab invents real-time 'optical sectioning' to remove out-of-focus light
Rice lab invents real-time ‘optical sectioning’ to remove out-of-focus light Rice University researchers have added a clever spin — a rotating grating that removes out-of-focus light — to a cutting-edge, minimally invasive fiber-optic microscope that lets oncologists and surgeons zoom in on cancer tumors prior to surgery. Pelham Keahey (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) The research is published online this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Acad
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