Leebron’s town hall, reception lunch set for April 21
Rice President David Leebron will deliver his town hall address April 21, and university staff members are invited to a lunch reception following the event.
Inspired students make intubation more intuitive
Rice University engineering students develop a simplified, wireless video laryngoscope to help clinicians intubate patients before procedures or in an emergency.
Rep. Michael McCaul to discuss US policy on Ukraine at the Baker Institute
Rep. Michael McCaul, ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, will discuss United States policy regarding the war in Ukraine at an April 14 event hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Semiconductor technology startup wins 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition
LIDROTEC, a student startup from RWTH Aachen University in Germany that aims to increase production in the semiconductor industry, took home the grand prize at the 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC).
Thanks to their groundbreaking research, McMurtry College junior Karen Wang and Sid Richardson College junior Joseph Asfouri were both recently awarded Goldwater Scholarships, America’s most prestigious awards for undergraduates studying natural sciences, engineering and mathematics.
Brockman Hall for Opera opens its doors for community open house
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music opened the doors to the new Brockman Hall for Opera April 9, welcoming more than 2,000 guests to a community open house.
Admitted students flock to campus as Owl Days return
Hundreds of admitted students and their families flocked to Rice campus April 8 and 11 for the first in-person Owl Days since 2019.
Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium celebrates its 20th year April 15
The Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rice’s premier undergraduate research event, returns April 15.
The ConocoPhillips Applied Mathematics Program at Rice hosts teachers for its year-ending AMPosium!
Open enrollment for benefit plans begins April 15
Taxes might be top of mind these days, but it is also time for Rice employees to start thinking about their health, welfare and retirement benefits for the upcoming fiscal year.
‘GasLift’ by allies could help Europe offset loss of Russian gas, say Baker Institute experts
Stopgap options including an infusion of gas from allied nations could help Europe maintain enough energy supplies to offset a potential cutoff from Russian gas, according to experts from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice University English professor Tomás Morín wins prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Rice University professor Tomás Morín has won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor bestowed annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to a slate of the world’s top scholars, artists, writers and scientists.
Kaiyuan Yang wins NSF CAREER Award
Electrical and computer engineer Kaiyuan Yang wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
A new view for science and engineering
Luay Nakhleh, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, toured the construction site of the new Engineering and Science Building on April 5.
Treated plastic waste good at grabbing carbon dioxide
Rice University chemists treat waste plastic to absorb carbon dioxide from flue gas streams more efficiently than current processes.