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InnovationMap to launch the Houston Innovators Podcast

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Get ready, Houston. InnovationMap has captured the eyes of the Houston innovation ecosystem, and now it's coming for your ears too.

For almost a year now, InnovationMap has profiled a local entrepreneur or leader in the Featured Innovator section of the site every week. Now, the Q&A-style article is being taken to a new, multimedia level on the Houston Innovators Podcast.

Each week, the podcast, hosted by me, Natalie Harms, will shine a spotlight on a local player in Houston's burgeoning innovation landscape. I'll chat with the weekly guest about his or her career, the role they play in Houston innovation, and where the city is going with startups and technology.

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, or stay tuned to InnovationMap.com to read a quick excerpt and listen to the clip directly on the site.

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Lane Martin will lead the Rice Advanced Materials Institute beginning this summer. Photo courtesy of Rice

A recently established institute at Rice University has revealed its new leader.

The Rice Advanced Materials Institute has named Lane Martin as director. Martin will also serve as Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering in the George R. Brown School of Engineering. He begins both roles on July 1.

“Lane is everything we expect our faculty to be — hard-working, committed to excellence, dedicated to students and collaborative across disciplines,” says Howard R. Hughes Provost Amy Dittmar in a news release. “I look forward to seeing Rice faculty and students reap the benefits of his leadership.”

Prior to his appointment at Rice, Martin was the chancellor’s professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He also served as chair of the materials science and engineering department, faculty scientist in the material sciences division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and co-director of the Collaborative for Hierarchical Agile and Responsive Materials, according to the release.

“I had the privilege of mentoring Lane when he was a doctoral student at Berkeley,” says Ramamoorthy Ramesh, vice president for research, professor of materials science and nanoengineering and professor of physics and astronomy. “He is a gifted scientist with the boldness and vision to build this new institute into a research powerhouse.”

The new institute was created following a $100 million gift from Houston-based Welch Foundation. It will bring together chemistry, materials science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the future of industry.

“This institute will keep Rice at the forefront of high-impact research related to energy transition, advanced materials and future computing,” says Luay Nakhleh, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the school, in the release. “It will empower our faculty and students to help solve some of the most pressing problems of our day.”

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