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Bon voyage

Jazz musicians Brandon and Daleton Lee played a powerful send-off for Sondra Perry's monumental "Ocean Modifier," which closed its year-long installation at the Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion on September 2.

Cristina Rivera Garza talks medicine, language and bodies in Sept. 22 lecture

The 'Genius Grant' winner and fiction writer will read from her work in English and Spanish.

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.

The Way I See It: Parenting is the mother of gender inequality in science

The pandemic has laid bare the gender inequities in the scientific community, as women’s publication rates have been hit much harder than men’s by the need, for instance, to home-school children.

Welch Institute names Matthew Tirrell to chair Scientific Advisory Board

The Welch Institute for Advanced Materials has named Matthew Tirrell to chair its Scientific Advisory Board

Rice physicists find 'magnon' origins in 2D magnet

Rice physicists have confirmed the topological origins of magnons, magnetic features they discovered three years ago in a 2D material that could prove useful for spintronics.

Double-walled nanotubes have electro-optical advantages

Rice theorists find that flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes could be highly useful for photovoltaic applications.

OpenStax surpasses $1 billion in textbook savings

Less than a decade after publishing its first free, openly licensed textbook, OpenStax — Rice’s educational technology initiative — has saved students $1.2 billion.

Sim shows how COVID virus infects cells

A simulation shows the complicated mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 virus may infect cells, leading to COVID-19.

Flu shots offered to Rice community on campus

Flu shots are now available on campus for members of the Rice community.

Historic Houston neighborhoods focus of study on small business

RUPD’s Citizens Police Academy open for enrollment

People, papers and presentations for Aug. 30, 2021

Rice ranked by Niche as one of nation’s top 10 universities

Rice University wins an “A+” grade and ranks as one of the nation’s top 10 universities in the latest ratings of American colleges compiled by Niche.

Bilayer borophene is a first

Scientists make bilayer borophene for the first time. The versatile 2D material shows promise for quantum electronics, energy storage and sensors.