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Rice University bioengineer and global-health pioneer Rebecca Richards-Kortum has received a coveted MacArthur Fellowship. Richards-Kortum, the founder and director of Rice’s award-winning Rice 360º Global Health Initiative, is the first Houston scientist, the first Houston woman and the first Rice faculty member to win the prestigious “genius grant.”

Speaking to a packed house at Rice’s Tudor Fieldhouse, Vice President Joe Biden on Friday discussed new measures to help cancer patients navigate the clinical trials process as part of the administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative to speed new treatments to market.

World-renowned leadership scholar and author Jim Collins, former Vice President Al Gore, General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret) and founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Professor Klaus Schwab are the first to be named to the advisory board for Rice’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders.

Rice University moved up to No. 15 among the best national universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 “Best Colleges” guidebook.