Avery Ruxer Franklin

Serving size, satisfaction influence food waste on campus

Understanding what drives food choices can help high-volume food service operations like universities reduce waste, according to a new study.

Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator now accepting summer applications

Applications to join the first Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator cohort are open to early-stage clean energy startups.

Houston fighting floods with losing strategy, says Rice U. expert

Understanding climate change is key to solving the Houston area's flooding woes, but there are major problems with the current approach, according to an environmental expert from Rice University.

Border issues nothing new but pose challenge for Biden, says Baker Institute expert

What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border is neither new nor the result of recent policy changes by President Joe Biden

Rice Business names Constance Porter senior associate dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Constance Porter, assistant clinical professor of marketing at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, has joined the leadership team of the school's newly expanded Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

US must prepare for long-term economic fallout from pandemic, says Baker Institute expert

The U.S. economy appears to be improving, but the pandemic will have a lasting macroeconomic impact, according to an expert from Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Biden should issue executive order granting ‘Dreamers’ citizenship, paper argues

The pathway to lawful permanent resident (LPR) status —otherwise known as getting a green card — is full of roadblocks for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) beneficiaries, according to new research from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Peter Hotez to join Rice U. infectious disease expert for COVID-19 vaccine webinar

Peter Hotez, a renowned vaccine scientist and physician who’s also a fellow in disease and poverty at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, will join Rice infectious disease specialist Yousif Shamoo to discuss COVID-19 vaccine developments in a free webinar March 12.

First Rice Alliance Venture Day selects four 'most promising' companies

Twenty emerging energy technology companies were pitched to investors at the first Rice Alliance Venture Day @ CERAWeek at the Agora, and the audience voted four of those companies -- Connectus Global, DrillDocs, Revterra and Revolution Turbine Technologies - as the event’s “most promising” investment opportunities.

Rice University experts to be featured at CERAWeek

Rice is an academic partner of CERAWeek, with the university's Energy and Natural Resources Initiative spearheading its involvement. The annual conference, which usually takes place in Houston, will be held online this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rice offering undergraduate major in business starting this fall

HOUSTON – (March 1, 2021) – Rice University will offer an undergraduate major in business beginning this fall.

Advanced recycling strategies needed to clean up plastic pollution problem, says Baker Institute expert

Sustainability across the entire value chain — rather than advances in technology alone — is required to solve the United States’ plastic waste problems, according to a new brief from Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Rice Business Plan Competition to announce 2021 teams

The Rice Business Plan Competition — the world's largest and richest student startup competition — will announce the teams invited to participate in this year's edition on Friday.

Biden must act swiftly on China trade policy, Baker Institute expert says

Competition with China is the United States' "existential challenge now and for the next three or four decades" and must be addressed by the White House immediately, according to a new report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Marijuana policy will remain racially inequitable without federal intervention, experts say

Inequities in marijuana policy persist because of a failure to center reform around racial justice, according to a new report by experts at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy in the American Bar Association publication The Judges’ Journal.