The Twenty-Second Annual Summer Research Colloquium of the Rice Quantum Institute was held in Duncan Hall, Entrance 23 from Rice Blvd. on Friday, August 8, 2008. The all-day schedule of presentations is shown here.

The REU Program at the Rice Quantum Institute has been renewed through 2010. This interdisciplinary program is open to undergraduates from other schools who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Rice and International students performing research with other sources of funding may participate in the program's social activities. The deadline for applications to be guaranteed consideration is March 1 each year.

A new center, the Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LaNP), was established in 2004 for the development of plasmonic technologoy and its in applications to surface-enhanced spectroscopies, chemical and biodetection, cancer detection and therapy, and other arieas. LaNP is headed by Naomi Halas, is funded by both NSF and DoD, and currently consists of faculty, students and postdocs from ECE, PHYS, CHEM, BIOE and MEMS. See the LaNP website for further details.