News:

• ScienCentral News article  "Energy Saver," featuring Dr. Richard Smalley.
• National Foundation of Texas awarded Yuhuang Wang of Rice University the  David G. Nance Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Nanotechnology. Wang was chosen for this award from a field of eighteen graduate students from around the state. Dr. Richard Smalley nominated Wang for the award.
• Enrique Barrera Recognized for Aid to Minority Engineering Students
• Dr. Randy Hulet, Fayez Sarofim Professor of Physics, featured in August 8th edition of Science.  Dr. Hulet and his team were highlighted in the article as one of six teams attempting to make atoms pair like electrons in a superconductor.
• Dr. Lydia Kavraki, associate professor in bioengineering, was listed in the Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review magazine.
• Dr. Jim Tour's research on molecular memory featured in Technology Research News.
• Click here to download selected speakers' PowerPoint presentations from the NNI Southern Regional Workshop, held May 23, 2002 at Rice.
• To download the entire NNI Final Report click here.
• A recent article about the  Smart Electric Grid.
• Dr. Richard Smalley's profile in  The New York Times (registration required).
• New Scientist article on plasmonics featuring a quote from Dr. Naomi Halas.
• Jennifer West, associate professor in bioengineering and chemical engineering, has been named one of the world’s 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine of Innovation.
• Rice gets $15M for  information technology research.
• Construction set to begin on  clean room in Abercrombie Hall.
• Dr. Naomi Halas wins prestigious Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program  Innovator Award.