Rice University News & Media

Members of the Rice community gathered in Fondren Library’s historic Kyle Morrow Room July 10 for a reception honoring an exceptional library employee. Jane Zhao, director of the Digital Media Commons, was recognized with the 2017 Shapiro Award.

Rice engineers are working with DARPA to develop a high-resolution neural interface to provide an alternate path for sight and sound to be delivered directly to the brain.

Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has received a $3 million gift from the Glassell Family Foundation led by Houston philanthropist Alfred C. Glassell III to endow a fellow in drug policy and advance the research of the institute’s Drug Policy Program.