People, papers and presentations for Nov. 7, 2022
Phoebe Wang, a Rice Business alumna and clean tech venture capitalist who serves as an investment director at Shell Ventures, was selected as Clean Energy Education and Empowerment’s (C3E) 2022 Business Award winner and accepted the honor during the C3E symposium Nov. 2.
Early planetary migration can explain missing planets
Computer simulations by Rice University scientists and their collaborators explain two puzzling observations of exoplanets orbiting distant stars.
Rice wins Moore Foundation grant for quantum vacuum research
Junichiro Kono’s lab will study how matter and quantum vacuums become entangled thanks to a new grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Tony Award-winning ‘Street Scene’ performed by Shepherd School opera program
“Street Scene ,” the fall opera production from the Rice University Shepherd School opera program, was performed Nov. 4 and 6 in Brockman Hall for Opera’s Morrison Theater, with stage direction by Pat Diamond.
Rice’s Luz Garcini named to American Psychological Association’s board of directors
Luz Garcini , an assistant professor of psychological sciences at Rice University, has been named a member at large of the board of directors of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Why some Latino communities fear the COVID-19 vaccine, and what can be done to help
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, some people in medically underserved Latino communities avoided getting vaccinated due to fears of side effects, mistrust of health officials and vaccine manufacturers and discrimination from health care workers, according to a new study from Rice University.
First annual Rice Business DEI report shows action toward fostering culture of respect, opportunity
Rice Business has released its first annual report on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Shepherd School concert honors Larry Rachleff
More than 500 students, faculty, staff and friends gathered at Stude Concert Hall to remember Rachleff, who died Aug. 8 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 67. The evening included a celebratory reception, a video tribute recorded by former students and colleagues, and, befittingly, an orchestral concert to pay tribute to the educator.
Bacterial sensors send a jolt of electricity when triggered
Rice researchers develop programmable bacteria that sense contaminants and release an electronic signal in real time.
Rice’s Eduardo Salas receives lifetime achievement award from Association for Psychological Science
Eduardo Salas , department chair and a professor of psychological sciences at Rice University, has received the coveted James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in recognition of his outstanding career achievements.
The largest crowd in the history of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) Conference gathered last week in Las Vegas to celebrate creativity and innovation in university-based entrepreneurship education.
Role of White House science advisers to be examined in Baker Institute webinar
The evolution of science policy and expert advice to the White House will be examined in a Nov. 9 webinar featuring a digitized collection of materials related to the history of presidential scientific advising.
Excited children and their families from surrounding communities were welcomed to Rice campus Oct. 29 for Project Pumpkin, the university’s annual event full of Halloween crafts and fun for all ages.
Owl Together 2022 — celebrating Rice’s past with an eye to the future
This year’s Owl Together festivities kicked off with the annual Rice Faculty Keynote Lecture Oct. 28. Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities and author of “American Moonshot,” spoke to alumni in Tudor Fieldhouse about John F. Kennedy and the race to space of the 1960s, just a few weeks after the 60th anniversary of JFK’s famous speech at Rice Stadium in 1962.
Humanities NOW event series fosters faculty conversation with Rice community
It’s the fifth semester of the Humanities NOW lecture series, started by associate dean of undergraduate programs and special projects Fay Yarbrough ’97 to highlight the wide array of expertise within Rice’s humanities faculty by enlisting them to lead thoughtful conversations with students, faculty and staff about their work and their perspectives
