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ENRICH Office’s Health Innovations Symposium showcases Rice-TMC biomedical collaboration ecosystem

May 14, 2025

Rice’s ENRICH Office hosted a two-day symposium April 24-25 at Helix Park highlighting the encompassing range of biomedical research at the university and the network of collaborations with institutions across the Texas Medical Center.

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Building better AI starts with asking better questions; Rice is doing just that

April 18, 2025

Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evaluated for bias or misuse.

Humanities Days

Rice students explore identity, history, health in expanded Humanities Days showcase

April 17, 2025

Humanities Days offered Rice students the chance to present their research and creative work in panels, poster sessions and art presentations.

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Bioengineering students tackle health care disparities through clinical immersion program

March 3, 2025

Through an eight-week immersive experience, Rice students observed complex clinical environments at Texas Children’s Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute, identifying unmet health care needs and exploring solutions with a human-centered approach.

Medical Humanities

Innovating health care through humanities: Sawyer Seminar Symposium to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue

February 13, 2025

When medicine, technology and the humanities intersect, the result is a conversation that challenges the status quo and reimagines the future of health care.

Maya Harpavat

Moody Fellow explores writing as a therapeutic tool for others

January 14, 2025

Maya Harpavat’s love of writing began when she was 6 years old, sitting at the kitchen table with her father.

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Rice’s Medical Humanities Research Institute is aiming for a paradigm shift in medicine

October 16, 2024

Medicine is so much more than delivering treatments or writing prescriptions: It’s about helping a person. The Medical Humanities Research Institute at Rice, launched in October 2023, is aiming for a paradigm shift in medicine that refocuses on the human beings at the core of medicine, both as health care professionals and patients. Medical humanities not only elevates the contributions and perspectives that the humanities can bring to health care; it’s a multidisciplinary approach that also engages the arts, social sciences, engineering and other fields to ensure that patients are seen as people in the context of healing and to make health care more equitable and inclusive for all.

Computer specialist John Smith arranges and examines cannisters of magnetic tape used in the processing of medical data at the National Library of Medicine

‘Connection is key’: Rice’s Medical Humanities Research Institute launches seminar to spotlight racial health equity, data justice

August 29, 2024

The Medical Humanities Research Institute at Rice aims to answer pressing questions through the Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, “Reimagining Technologies of Care: Racial Health Equity and Data Justice.”

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Rice gathers world’s top medical humanities minds in Paris

June 3, 2024

Rice’s Medical Humanities Research Institute recently held a research summit at the Paris Center, convening leading international researchers to explore critical issues at the intersection of medicine and humanities.

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Global collaboration takes root in Paris: Rice and PSL forge research ties

May 16, 2024

Rice University and Université Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) convened leading researchers for a daylong summit May 14 at the Rice Global Paris Center, following the official launch of a strategic research partnership between the two institutions.

Trinity Eimer

Rice cell biology student named Watson Fellow

April 25, 2024

When Trinity Eimer, a senior at Rice University, applied for the prestigious one-year postgraduate Thomas J. Watson Fellowship last September, she knew exactly what project to pitch to the evaluation committee. The cell biology and genetics major began her college career during the COVID-19 pandemic and wanted to spend her next 12 months studying the cross-cultural impact of grief caused by it.

Kirsten Ostherr Health Humanities Visionary Award

Kirsten Ostherr receives the 2024 Health Humanities Visionary Award

April 15, 2024

Kirsten Ostherr, a media scholar and health researcher at Rice University, has been honored with the 2024 Health Humanities Visionary Award by the Health Humanities Consortium (HHC) during its April 10-13 conference in Phoenix.

Priyanka Senthil is maximizing her opportunities at Rice University through her research and advocacy work related to lung cancer screening.

Rice student making a difference in community through lung cancer research

April 2, 2024

Priyanka Senthil is maximizing her opportunities at Rice through her research and advocacy work related to lung cancer screening.

Pato Hebert, Amanda Caleb & Megan Voeller

Explore thought-provoking dialogue, artwork at Medical Humanities Research Institute panel discussion

February 21, 2024

Rice University's Medical Humanities Research Institute will delve into the profound connections between visual art and medical humanities at "Health Aesthetics: A Panel and Art Exhibition featuring Pato Hebert" March 6.

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Rice bioengineering curriculum cultivates human-centered approach to medical design

January 8, 2024

A five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will support the development of an innovative undergraduate bioengineering curriculum component intended to cultivate inclusive design principles for Rice students contemplating a career as medical practitioners or medical technology innovators.

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