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Students immersed in STEM at daylong workshop

Rice hosts elementary, middle and high school students at the Fresh Start Engineering Workshop.

Rice flashes new life into lithium-ion anodes

Rice chemists use flash Joule heating to recover graphite anodes from spent lithium-ion batteries.

Rice’s Houston Jewish History Archive to become Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives

In appreciation of the Alexander family of Houston's longtime support of Jewish Studies in the School of Humanities and the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library, Rice will name the Houston Jewish History Archive the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives effective Jan. 1.

Texas power grid debate should focus on reliability and economics, says Baker Institute expert

Building new ties between the Texas electrical grid and the major grids in North America should be explored with strict regard to economics and reliability — leaving politics aside — according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Pathogenic sensor’s surprising capabilities revealed

Rice synthetic biologists have uncovered new capabilities of a genetically encoded sensor that allows salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens to sicken millions of people each year.

Padgett named NSF BRITE Fellow

Rice University engineer Jamie Padgett is one of five United States researchers to be named a National Science Foundation BRITE Fellow.

US names two Rice students inaugural Quad Fellows

Two Rice graduate students are among the inaugural recipients of the Quad Fellowship.

Seiichi Matsuda receives top honors for leadership in graduate education

Rice Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Seiichi Matsuda has been named the recipient of the 2022 Debra W. Stewart Award for Outstanding Leadership in Graduate Education, the top honor bestowed by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).

‘A driving force and visionary leader’: LA Opera’s Joshua Winograde to head Rice Shepherd School’s Opera Studies

Joshua Winograde, one of the nation’s leading arts administrators, will join Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as professor of opera and director of Opera Studies in July.

EU natural gas market to remain ‘precarious’ through next winter, says Baker Institute report

Europe is facing high natural gas prices and high uncertainty due to the substantial reduction in Russian imports, and this winter is only the beginning, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

De Lange Conference puts spotlight on technology, culture and society

Rice University hosted the De Lange Conference Dec. 5-6 at its BioScience Research Collaborative and the Ion.

Timing is everything: How becoming proficient in English earlier can improve outcomes for students

When students who begin school learning English as a second language are deemed proficient earlier in their educational careers, their overall learning outcomes — including test scores and access to advanced coursework — can dramatically improve, according to a new research brief from the Rice University Kinder Institute’s Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC).

President DesRoches welcomes Rice community at open house

President DesRoches and his family welcomed the Rice community to an open house event on his lawn.

On heels of national championship, Rice speech and debate keeps raking in wins

The past several months have been a whirlwind of success for Rice’s George R. Brown Forensics Society, the university’s award-winning student speech and debate team with a track record of racking up championships and awards by the dozens. After tremendous success amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, including two national championships in as many years, the team’s penchant for top-tier performances has continued this fall alongside a much welcomed return to in-person competition.

People, papers and presentations for Dec. 5, 2022

Richard Gordon, the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geophysics in Rice’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, is to receive the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Stephan Mueller Medal for 2023. Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, has been named president of the American Geophysical Union Near-Surface Geophysics focus group.