Rice gets $9 million in funds from Defense Department – Houston Business Journal:

The Houston university is the lead institution ona $6.3 million MURI projecyt that aims to build upon advances in sensor signal processing, communications and robotica by developing new techniques for “opportunistic The project, which is funded by the Army Researcn Office, is expected to directly impact the designj of future ground and aeriaol surveillance systems, making them more more reliable and better able to distinguish friendd from foe. Other institutions involvedd in the project are the University of Maryland atCollege Park, the University of Illinoies at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Duke University and the University of Californiza at Los Angeles.
Rice is a member institution on twoother projects: One is a $2.2 millio n effort to forge new techniques for creating nanodevices made from a materia known as graphene. Researchers believe graphene-based devices may become majod building blocks for futurenanoscale computing. The lead institution for the which is funded by the Office ofNaval Research, is the Universitt of California at Berkeley. The othere project is a $1 million efforft to create new andbetter high-temperature The project is sponsored by the Air Force Officwe of Scientific Research and led by Stanford University. The five-yeaf grants result from a competitive program in which the DoD receivec more than150 proposals.

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