Immigration reform key to keeping US economy competitive, says Baker Institute report
The United States’ immigration system is failing to provide the nation’s economy with enough high-skilled and productive workers to grow and remain competitive on a global scale, according to a new report from experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Moody Foundation funds 12 new student opportunity endowments
The Moody Fund for Student Opportunity will finance a dozen newly created Rice endowments, providing students with an extensive array of enhanced educational opportunities financed by a $50 million commitment from the Moody Foundation.
Gualtieri contemplates community building by ‘Women in Early Arab America’
USC scholar to speak at March 10 lecture in honor of Women’s History Month
A Ph.D. dissertation doesn’t always have to be a paper, as demonstrated by ethnomusicologist Julian Saporiti
‘High-skilled’ Mexican immigrants in US can help both countries
“High-skilled” immigrants from Mexico are major contributors to the United States’ so-called “knowledge economy,” and fostering that relationship will benefit both countries, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Basketball teams wrap up regular season, head to conference tournaments
The Rice women’s and men’s basketball teams completed regular-season play over the weekend, and the Conference USA Championships are on tap this week.
People, papers and presentations for March 7, 2022
Freshman Arielle Hayon has qualified for the 2022 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, set for March 16-19 in Atlanta, in both the 100-meter and 200-meter butterfly.
Closer look helps Rice lab ponder when a protein’s prone to wander
Rice chemists have discovered surface interactions could be tunable at the single-protein level
Bio-FlatScope dives deep for useful data
The lensless Bio-FlatScope is a small, inexpensive camera to monitor biological activity that can’t be captured by conventional instruments. The device could eventually be used to look for signs of cancer or sepsis or become a valuable endoscopy tool.
‘Drug factory’ implants eliminate ovarian, colorectal cancer in mice
Rice bioengineers have created tiny implants that activate immune cells to destroy cancer.
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music hosted its annual Family Concert Feb. 26.
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music hosted its annual Family Concert Feb. 26.
Faculty set Rice record with eight CAREER Awards
Rice faculty set a record, winning eight NSF CAREER Awards in 2002
Vicky Yao wins CAREER Award
Computer scientist Vicky Yao has won an NSF CAREER Award to develop computational tools to analyze and interpret DNA methylation.
The Moody celebrates 5 years of creative exploration through the arts at Rice
Birthday bash will feature Sir Woman, spotlight spring “Soundwaves” exhibition
Campos considers habitability and the human
The historian of science challenged understandings of and assumptions about “new worlds” Feb. 24
