# ResearchFocus Areas

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# **Research** Focus Areas

Rice Engineering and Computing's strategic research focus areas leverage our strengths, location, agility, and strong interdisciplinary culture to solve local and global societal challenges.

## **Health** and Well-being

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Rice engineers are developing new technologies and materials to prevent, diagnose and treat complex illnesses to improve human health and well-being. Close partnerships with institutions in the Texas Medical Center are at the heart of our research.

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## **Energy** and Sustainability

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As the world's energy needs grow, Rice engineers are developing disruptive approaches to energy generation, storage and sustainability to steer us towards a greener future.

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## Resilient and **Adaptive Communities**

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Rice engineers are developing technologies and materials to strengthen urban infrastructure and mitigate climate change impacts for communities around the world.

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## **Advanced** Materials

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Rice engineers are developing sustainable metamaterials, phase-changing materials, and smart fibers and fabrics with diverse applications in energy systems, healthcare, space exploration and more.

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## Future **Computing**

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Rice engineers are discovering new frontiers in artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing and other computing technologies. Innovative computing solutions have diverse applications in energy, healthcare, economics and more.

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