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[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

Excited to get started on our #NSFCAREER project this summer, grateful to the Foundational Research in Robotics program at #NSF for the support, and most importantly, thankful for the effort from the @ricePILab members that made it possible!

[Rice University Mechanical Engineering @RiceMECH]

📢 JUST ANNOUNCED: Daniel Preston, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is the eighth faculty member in @RiceEngineering to receive a @NSF CAREER Award this year! 👏 Congratulations, @ProfDanPreston!!!

https://t.co/HtpkKKdXMc

[Rice Engineering and Computing @RiceEngineering]

Rice researchers have discovered a major breakthrough in carbon nanotube recycling, creating a new path forward for sustainable materials. https://t.co/IkcWwpOdSe

[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

New work from @ricePILab in collaboration with researchers at @EdinburghUni and the Wehmeyer lab here at @RiceEngineering shows mask-enabled topography contrast patterning with implications for phase change heat transfer and thermal rectification: https://t.co/xEwGKpAXKn

[Preston Innovation Lab @ricePILab]

Recent @ricePILab & @RiceMECH PhD grad @rasheed_rawand '23 was named to the @Forbes 30 Under 30! His company Helix Earth is lowering power bills and saving energy for AC systems. #ForbesUnder30 https://t.co/itE6uNsdLV

[U.S. National Science Foundation @NSF]

Houston startup Helix Earth Technologies develops tech that retrofits air conditioning units to be more efficient. ♻️ #NSFSBIR #cleantech #sustainability

https://t.co/MmWr5avQBJ

📷: Helix Earth Technologies

[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

Great new perspective in @SciRobotics out this week! Take a look at this article by @quisebell to learn more, and work toward making positive changes with intentionality.

[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

@quisebell Thanks @quisebell, and great job on this article!

[Dr. Marcie O'Malley @MarcieOMalley]

Check out our focus article on human robot interaction! With @KeyaGhonasgi @meghanehuber and Taylor Higgins @RiceNeuro @RiceMECH

[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

Congrats @rasheed_rawand and Helix Earth - looking forward to our company's continued growth and impact on saving energy! https://t.co/2aV5qwQmyk

[Rice Engineering and Computing @RiceEngineering]

Helix Earth, a clean-tech company started by Rice alumnus Rawand Rasheed ’23, has secured $5.6 million in seed funding. This investment will help accelerate the development of retrofit devices to reduce energy consumption in air-conditioning systems. https://t.co/F30QTJRg8t

[Raudel Avila @AvilaROAD]

Opportunity for graduate study at @RiceUniversity @smalleycurl ! If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in Applied Physics, apply to our program! I am recruiting a student for computational electromagnetics modeling of bioelectronics!

[IEEERoboSoft @IEEERoboSoft]

We are glad to announce a deadline extension for RoboSoft 2025 papers and workshops. We hope this give IROS travelers the opportunity to still contribute.
•⁠ ⁠Contributed Papers: Oct 31st, 9 a.m. PST
•⁠ ⁠Workshops: Nov 8th, 9 a.m. PST
Thank you for the submissions so far!

[Rice Engineering and Computing @RiceEngineering]

We are thrilled to welcome 32 new faculty members this year: 16 tenured/tenure-track and 16 teaching and research faculty members, reflecting the school's dedication to growth in both research and teaching. https://t.co/6XiQXMEyro

[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

Check out Marquise Bell's seminar at @CaltechEAS if you are in town - he will discuss his @NASA-funded work on textile materials leading to his future vision for self-powered and multifunctional spacesuits, assistive devices, and beyond.

[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

Happy to have @yonglinkong here at @RiceMECH and looking forward to working together!

[Yong Lin Kong @yonglinkong]

I am very excited to share that my team and I have moved to @RiceUniversity. We are extremely grateful for the continuous support from the students, faculty, staff, funding agencies and companies, program officers, collaborators, mentors, and friends worldwide.

Thank you, University of Utah's students, faculty, and staff, for supporting my journey from an Assistant Professor in 2018 to my promotion to Associate Professor with tenure at the U in 2024.

I am incredibly fortunate to have the support of my team members, who have followed me on this journey to Rice. They have gone above and beyond to successfully transplant our lab, over 1484 miles, in two weeks.

Thank you also to The People at Rice for their warm welcome and incredible support for our team during the transitions. We are very excited and grateful for the new opportunity - looking forward to MECH it happens! @RiceMECH

https://t.co/TVHJmM5FQ3

[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

@TeaLab_UCSB Very neat idea!

[Michael King @profmikeking]

🚨 Faculty position alert! 🚨
@Rice_BIOE is now accepting applications for a tenure-track faculty position:
https://t.co/bJ5JAnMgSR
Please direct questions to me or search co-chair @veiseho
Join a collegial faculty located in the biggest medical center in the world!

[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

In new work from @ricePILab in @ACS_Langmuir, we go beyond the Washburn relationship: inverse design & additive manufacturing produce wicking materials with atypical fluid propagation for low-cost diagnostics, thermal management, and more. https://t.co/jq9blACf16

[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

Two covers from @RiceMECH in the same issue of @Advintellsyst! Our work from @ricePILab on sheet-based fluidic diodes and collaborative work on multiscale haptics led by @MarcieOMalley's MAHI lab were both selected for covers in the July issue.

https://t.co/33QM69bqcs

[Vanessa Sanchez @avanessasanchez]

My lab is #hiring a textile research specialist staff member! We work at the intersection of #materials, #manufacturing, and #robotics and we're a part of @RiceMECH in @RiceEngineering . See more details and apply below:

https://t.co/MlwK67s3SU

#smarttextiles #stem #HiringNow

[Daniel J Preston @ProfDanPreston]

Great job by @Fayeyap25 defending her PhD thesis in @RiceMECH! Her work applied reaction kinetics to understand virus inactivation, elastomer curing, and manufacturing of soft robots, and she will start her own lab as a faculty member at @uhmanoa in January.

[Advanced Intelligent Systems @Advintellsyst]

Sheet-Based Fluidic Diodes for Embedded Fluidic Circuitry in Soft Devices (@ProfDanPreston and co-workers) https://t.co/dFlkdKYQ55