Important Information on ARRA Funds

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Stories and Press Releases on Rice Stimulus Grants

A team of communications researchers and doctors from Rice University and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute have won a $2 million federal grant to design and test next-generation wireless platforms and remote patient monitoring devices in Houston's working-class Pecan Park neighborhood.

The W.M. Keck Center's Biomedical Informatics training program, of which Rice's Tony Gorry is co-director, has been awarded more than $1 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This is above and beyond the center's regular National Institutes of Health funding. Part of the Gulf Coast Consortia, the Keck Center focuses on interinstitutional training activities.

Emilia Morosan's career is starting to heat up. The Rice physicist, who uses furnaces in her lab to create compounds with novel magnetic properties, has landed a highly coveted CAREER Development Award from the National Science Foundation.

Rice University was awarded $11.1 million in federal stimulus funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for construction of the Brockman Hall for Physics, a new state-of-the-art research facility.

Rice University scientists have won a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to scrutinize the influenza A virus for clues that could lead to more effective antiviral drugs. Strains of influenza A include this year's pandemic H1N1 variety, some seasonal varieties and the much-feared H5N1 bird flu.

Researcher granted nearly $1 million to create genome-analysis tools. Things are quickly coming into focus for Nicholas Putnam, and a grant for nearly a million dollars certainly has helped that process along.