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Leebron’s last ride

This year’s O-Week marks the final time Rice President David Leebron will welcome an incoming class of students before he steps down in 2022.

Splash town

Selfie love

 Foam fights

Proving that the foamy stuff isn’t reserved exclusively for Baker 13 runs, shaving cream battles have become a standard during O-Week, as demonstrated here by Lovett and Jones College.

‘Truly magical’: O-Week welcomes new students despite pandemic pivots

Under challenging conditions, the experience remained as ‘intimate’ as ever thanks to Rice students' resilience and resolve.

Rice faculty address to Class of 2025: ‘Keep your curiosity close to you’

What is a fact? Who is science for? And who does it harm? These are just a few of the questions posed by Rice faculty during O-Week video addresses to the incoming Class of 2025.

Trailblazing Rice bioengineer is turning cells into disease fighters

Rice University bioengineer Isaac Hilton has been awarded an NIH Trailblazer Award to create synthetic circular DNA that can be used to reprogram cells as disease fighters.

Take it outside

University message shares important update on COVID-19 testing

We’ve discovered some anomalies with the test results we received this week from one of our three providers.

CPRIT grant establishes Genetic Design and Engineering Center

Rice faculty members led by bioengineer Gang Bao have been awarded a $4 million CPRIT grant to establish the Genetic Design and Engineering Center.

National 2D materials research center wins NSF funding

Rice, Penn State and Boise State have won a federal grant to expand ATOMIC, a national research center that develops atom-thin 2D coatings via university, industry and government partnerships.

Shale oil investments may be protected from nationalization, experts say

Shale oil’s short-cycle production protects foreign investors from the risk of expropriation — government taking private property for public use — providing an opportunity for the increasingly risk-averse global petroleum industry, according to a new report.

Woven nanotube fibers turn heat into power

Carbon nanotubes woven into thread-like fibers and sewn into fabrics become a thermoelectric generator that can turn heat from the sun or other sources into energy.

People, papers and presentations for Aug. 16, 2021

The Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Kelsey Norman, fellow for the Middle East and director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program, has been awarded the 2021 Emerging Scholars Policy Prize

‘Truly your class is one of a kind’: Rice’s Class of 2025 matriculates as largest ever

President Leebron challenges new students to prepare for a life of boldness, courage and contribution.