Avery Ruxer Franklin

Rice recognizes World Teachers' Day

The Anderson-Clarke Center was illuminated in blue Oct. 5 to shine a light on those who have taught through overwhelming circumstances during the last year and a half.

Renewable energy will increase security and lower geopolitical risk, study shows

The transition to renewable energy will make the U.S. energy supply significantly more secure not only by decreasing the mining and materials required to build fossil fuel systems, but also by avoiding the political risks that threaten fossil fuel supply chains, according to new research from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Maryland health care payment model reduces costs and complications, study shows

Maryland health care payment model reduces costs and complications, study shows

Rice MBA program scores top 5 ranking for entrepreneurship

The Master of Business Administration program at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business is No. 22 in the United States in Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Business Schools MBA ranking for 2021 — and No. 5 for entrepreneurship.

Financial losses from treating COVID-19 patients could devastate health care sector, experts say

Baker Institute and Baker Botts’ Annual Energy Summit to examine global energy transition

HOUSTON – (Sept. 15, 2021) – The 2021 Annual Energy Summit at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy will explore the critical issues affecting global energy markets, oil and gas, electricity, renewables and the environment in a virtual conference Sept. 29-30.

Rice Business professor named fellow of Strategic Management Society

Rice Business professor named fellow of Strategic Management Society

Rice U. expert available to discuss cryptocurrency taxes

HOUSTON – (Sept. 13, 2021) – Cryptocurrency — an estimated $2 trillion market — has created an estimated $1 trillion tax gap and become too big to avoid regulatory oversight, according to a new blog post from an expert at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

How can Uncle Sam tax cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrency — an estimated $2 trillion market — has created an estimated $1 trillion tax gap and become too big to avoid regulatory oversight, according to a new blog post from Joyce Beebe, fellow in public finance at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Clean Energy Accelerator startups to pitch investors and community on Demo Day

HOUSTON – (Sept. 13, 2021) – A dozen startups will pitch their clean energy technologies to investors and industry leaders this week as a virtual Demo Day concludes the inaugural class of the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator.

Climate progress requires competition, not cooperation, with China

HOUSTON – (Sept. 8, 2021) – Global climate progress requires fundamentally altering the economic bottom line that’s the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party’s power– and it will come through competition, not cooperation, according to experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the U.S. Naval War College.

Biden continues Trump’s ‘benign neglect’ of USMCA

HOUSTON – (Sept. 7, 2021) – Mexican officials are right to worry that the United States’ “rules of origin” interpretation in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement could reduce Mexican automobile production and investment, according to an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Webinar will explore Mexico’s 'improvised war' on drugs

HOUSTON – (Sept. 2, 2021) – Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s approach to combating organized crime and the country's “improvised” war on drugs will be the subject of a webinar from the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Historic Houston neighborhoods focus of study on small business

Paper: Wealth inequality shrinking after Trump-era tax reform, but progress at risk

Wealth inequality dropped in 2019 in the U.S. for the first time in almost three decades, but proposed tax legislation is threatening to reverse the progress, according to an expert at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.