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The Centennial Campaign
Building Stronger Bones Futuristic powers of healing figure prominently in our popular imagination — on television, in films and in books. Dr. Bones McCoy of “Star Trek” repaired silicone-based life-forms, and in the “X-Men” comics, Wolverine regenerated tissue at will thanks to mutated DNA. While the ability to heal instantaneously remains in the realm of science fiction, Rice researchers are in reality making advances in tissue engineering. And Rice undergraduate Stephanie Tzouanas ’14 is in the midst of it all. Tzouanas, a bioengineering major and Goldwater Scholar, is working side by side with graduate students in the lab of renowned bioengineering professor Antonios Mikos to develop revolutionary new biomaterials for bone regeneration. Her latest venture: helping to develop an injectable hydrogel that hardens in the crevices of bones. The substance could dramatically enhance the healing process, giving victims of trauma and those born with birth defects a better quality of life. Behind the scenes, gifts from alumni and friends have been hard at work providing scholarship assistance, funding professors’ salaries, providing lab equipment and making Rice a place where great minds — like Stephanie’s — can flourish. What can you accomplish through Rice’s Centennial Campaign? Your contribution can help a Rice undergraduate build the future of healing.
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As of Sept. 15, 2012, Rice’s alumni and friends have raised $880 million toward the Centennial Campaign’s $1 billion goal. Learn how these gifts are bringing the best people and ideas to Rice — and discover what lies ahead — at http://giving.rice.edu/campaignreport.
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