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Read about our ghostly gels đź‘»
In the spirit of Halloween, the Materials Science & Nanoengineering office featured a spooky twist on the different labs' research purposes. Here's their ghostly twist on our living hydrogels...
Take the Cake celebration for Nicole!
Nicole received a cake this year from the office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at Rice to celebrate her honorable mention in the NSF Fellows program! We're super proud of you, Nicole! Thank...
Triple birthday celebration for Ava, Jeeho and Colombe!
Last Tuesday (October 14) , we held birthday celebrations for Ava, Jeeho and Colombe! Besides our cupcake and selfie customs, we established a new Tringides Lab tradition of singing 'Happy Birthday'...
Welcome Colombe!
We are delighted to welcome Colombe Archambaud to our lab as a visiting student! Colombe grew up in the South of France, on the beautiful French Riviera, and is currently studying at...
Welcome, Elizabeth and Luthfia!
We’re thrilled to welcome two new master’s students to the Tringides lab — Elizabeth and Luthfia! Elizabeth joins us from McAllen, Texas, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical...
The first review from one of our lab members – congratulations Ava!
We congratulate Ava Zoba for writing and publishing the review titled "Material considerations for delivering therapeutics across the blood–brain barrier" on August 2025 in the APL Materials...
We welcome our newest member: Panagiota!
We are delighted to welcome Panagiota Dedousi to the Tringides Lab! Panagiota is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Materials Science and NanoEngineering department at Rice University. Originally...
Welcome (and happy birthday) Yimeng Xu!
The Tringides Lab is thrilled to welcome Yimeng Xu to our group! Yimeng is an incoming fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), majoring in Atomic,...
Goodbye party for Nick!
As summer ends, the lab says goodbye to Nick Kyriakides-Crowe, our visiting undergrad student from University of Southern California. We were glad to see Nick working hard throughout his stay at the...
SURF 2025 – Angel’s poster presentation
Last week we had our summer undergraduate student Angel de La Fuente present his work at the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2025 poster session! This was his first time ever presenting a...