Read all about it: Access Services team honored with Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award
July 22, 2022
Fondren Library’s Access Services team, a group of 19 people, has won the 2022 Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award.
Rice economist’s research on school choice suggests ways to improve experience for students, parents
July 21, 2022
For school-age students and their parents, school choice programs can be complicated and stressful. Research from Rice University economist YingHua He suggests the process gets easier when schools are upfront about admission prospects and other details that factor into decisions, and that students should be allowed to apply before having to rank schools in order of preference.
Fox named vice president for finance and administration
July 21, 2022
Kelly Fox, a senior executive with more than 20 years of experience in higher education, has been named Rice University’s vice president for finance and administration.
Immigration policy, aggressive enforcement harm mental health of people living in US illegally
July 18, 2022
Restrictive immigration policies and aggressive law enforcement are harmful to the mental health of immigrants living in the United States illegally, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
People, papers and presentations for July 18, 2022
July 18, 2022
A paper by Rice physicist Edison Liang and colleagues titled “A scintillator attenuation spectrometer for intense gamma-rays” is featured on the cover of the June 2022 issue of Review of Scientific Instruments.
Registration opens for Rice’s continuing studies courses
July 18, 2022
Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has released its course guide for fall 2022.
Synthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA
July 15, 2022
Bioengineers used deactivated Cas9 fusion proteins to synthetically control gene expression and reveal new details about natural processes in human cells.
Syed named Rice University’s vice president, general counsel
July 15, 2022
Omar Syed, an attorney with 15 years of experience in higher education, has been named Rice University’s vice president and general counsel.
Rice student and Shepherd School classmates bring new musical works to rural Texas
July 15, 2022
Small-town Texas might not be the first place you’d think of as a destination for a musical premiere from some of the country’s top composition students, but that’s exactly what took place at “Full Circle — A Musical Museum Experience,” held in May in Canadian, Texas, thanks to a Rice University Shepherd School student and some of his classmates.
July 14, 2022
AMP! ramps up for a new year of STEM training for teachers with a day at Minute Maid Park.
Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second
July 14, 2022
Rice neuroengineers and collaborators have created wireless technology to remotely activate brain circuits.
Strain-sensing smart skin ready to deploy
July 14, 2022
Carbon nanotubes’ natural fluorescence enables a method to detect high strain concentrations, which can lead to damage that threatens the integrity of critical infrastructure like aircraft, buildings, pipelines, bridges and ships.
RSVPs requested for Aug. 4 memorial celebration honoring longtime mathematics professor John Hempel
July 13, 2022
Rice will host an Aug. 4 memorial celebration to honor the life of longtime math professor John Hempel.
SARS-Arena reveals hidden hooks in virus
July 13, 2022
SARS-Arena will help to find conserved parts in proteins from SARS-CoV-2 that could be a key for the development of wide-spectrum vaccines.
Flashing creates hard-to-get 2D boron nitride
July 11, 2022
Rice University chemists use their flash Joule heating process to synthesize 2D flakes of boron nitride and boron carbon nitride, highly valued for lending thermal and chemical stability to compounds.