CPRIT supports work on combo cancer therapy
Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao is developing a three-pronged attack on solid cancer tumors. The research now has the support of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Environmental champions win Rice grants
The Rice University Sustainable Futures Fund backs six projects to help bolster the planet’s environmental health.
As time goes on, Americans are moving less often
Migration in the United States has been on a downward trend since the 1960s, according to new research from Rice University.
Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, announced as Rice’s 2022 commencement speaker
Sonia Nazario, an award-winning journalist whose work has tackled some of the United States’ most intractable problems — hunger, drug addiction and immigration — will deliver the 2022 commencement address at Rice University.
Strong magnets put new twist on phonons
Phonons, quasiparticles in a crystal lattice that are usually hard to control by external fields, can be manipulated by a magnetic field -- but it takes a very strong magnet.
February freeze analyzed one year later
Last February’s severe winter storm caused sustained peaks in demand for electricity across Texas, triggering tremendous stress on the state’s power grid and widespread outages lasting days. Now a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy examines why the winter storm caused this deadly electricity supply crisis and how it could have been avoided.
Trivia-lovers the world over got to know Brown College senior Jasmine Manansala last week when she competed in the “Jeopardy!” National College Championship Feb. 8.
Kate Shepherd’s first permanent wall painting on public view installed at Rice
The piece joins the university’s growing collection of public art
A GREAT arts walk across campus
“It is amazing to see how Rice graduate international students give back to our local community”
Bacterial ‘bully’ could improve food production
Lactic acid bacteria that thrive in many organisms, including humans, employ a hybrid metabolism that combines respiration and fermentation to give it an advantage over competitors. Researchers say the discovery could lead to enhanced techniques for food and chemical production.
Kolditz, director of Rice's Doerr Institute, announces departure
Tom Kolditz, director of Rice University's Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders, has announced his departure from Rice effective June 30, 2022. He will remain with the institute as a member of its external advisory board.
People, papers and presentations for Feb. 14, 2022
John Fierst, assistant director of academic advising, received the 2022 Texas Association of Advisors for the Health Professions Advisor of the Year Award at the group's recent annual conference in San Antonio.
Rice announces plans to be carbon neutral by 2030
Rice President David Leebron and Provost Reginald DesRoches outlined the efforts in a message to the university community Feb. 11.
Puppetry design course challenges students to explore their creative boundaries
“Never in a million years did I think I’d be designing and making a puppet”
Rice to host international conference on scholarship of the paranormal March 3-6
“Opening the Archives of the Impossible” will also showcase collections housed in university library