Rice’s annual United Way campaign reaches $250,000 goal — but there’s still time to give
At a Dec. 5 celebration and reception for committee members and top donors to this year’s Rice United Way campaign, the fundraising effort’s staff chair Susann Glenn and faculty chair Doug Natelson declared the annual effort had once again met its ambitious goal of raising $250,000.
US must disconnect strategic supply chains from China, say Baker Institute experts
China’s dominance over the supply of rare-earth minerals and materials — which are critical for energy transition and defense technologies — should spur U.S. policymakers to bolster raw materials supply chains, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Basketball teams, RUSMP host School House Mania for area students
Rice Athletics and the Rice University School Mathematics Project hosted Houston-area students at Tudor Fieldhouse last week for their annual School House Mania.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 19, 2022
Minjae Kim, assistant professor of management in organizational behavior at the Jones Graduate School of Business, was ranked one of 2022’s 50 best undergraduate business professors by Poets and Quants.
Mikos wins Jensen Tissue Engineering Award
Bioengineer Antonios Mikos receives the 2023 Jensen Tissue Engineering Award.
Webb Space Telescope reveals previously shrouded newborn stars
Astronomers dove deep into the first images from the Webb Space Telescope and made a surprising discovery.
Doerr’s spring Catalyst program designed to help students become better leaders
Looking to build leadership skills in the new year? The Doerr Institute for New Leaders’ Catalyst program is now open for applications from Rice students.
DesRoches outlines 2023 goals to faculty
President Reginald DesRoches delivers his inaugural State of the University
Puppetry workshop brings Owls, performers together for larger-than-life performance
Thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts and the Department Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures within the School of Humanities, the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art and Bread and Puppet Theater — one of the oldest nonprofit political theater companies in the country — Rice students got the chance to play roles in a larger-than-life puppet show Nov. 22.
Lights, latkes, fun and fellowship
Members of the Rice community gathered at Valhalla for an evening of celebration Dec. 5 for Chabad at Rice’s pre-Hanukkah bash.
Restarting a once annual tradition, the Rice Student Association along with Fondren Library sponsored three sessions of end-of-semester de-stressing with therapy dogs.
Battle of the birds: LendingTree Bowl at a glance
The game marks the Rice football program’s first postseason action since 2014
Campus holistic garden plants roots in new location
The Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden has been replanted in a new location on the Rice University campus, just north of the Gibbs Recreation Center in between the basketball courts and O'Connor Field.
Rice’s Take Flight program helping community college STEM students soar
Rice University welcomed more than 80 students and 10 faculty members from Lone Star College and San Jacinto College in early December to learn more about its Take Flight STEM Pathway program.
Ramesh, vice president for research, inducted as National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, vice president for research, has been elected as a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
