March 9, 2020
New research offers a groovy answer to the question of what causes carbon nanotubes to align in ultrathin crystalline films discovered at Rice.
Robert Ladd elected Rice Board of Trustees chair
March 9, 2020
Rice University alumnus Robert T. Ladd ’78 has been elected chair of the Rice Board of Trustees, effective July 1.
Charles Davis turns childhood memories into a career
March 5, 2020
Scientists create model to predict multipathogen epidemics
March 5, 2020
In one of the first studies of its kind, bioscientists from Rice University and the University of Michigan have shown how to use the interactions between pathogens in individual hosts to predict the severity of multipathogen epidemics.
Paul Celan conference brings international experts on poetry to Rice
March 4, 2020
As one of the most important and influential poets of the 20th century, Paul Celan’s life and work reflect a central ethical and literary concern of his own time: “Can one still write poetry after Auschwitz?”
Doerr Institute’s Kolditz honored at West Point
March 3, 2020
Tom Kolditz, the founding director of Rice’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders, recently received a Distinguished Former Faculty Award from the U.S. Military Academy.
Vaping bans are ineffective, say Baker Institute experts
March 3, 2020
HOUSTON -- (March 3, 2020) – Vaping products have contributed to a decline in cigarette smoking but have increased the number of middle and high school students who are addicted to nicotine — a problem that can only be effectively addressed through regulation of advertising — according to drug policy experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice satellite OwlSat set to launch in 2022
March 2, 2020
OwlSat, a small research satellite designed by Rice University students to monitor ultraviolet radiation, is set to launch into orbit in 2022.
Mitzvah Marathon lights up campus
March 2, 2020
March 2, 2020
A new location for the annual Study Abroad Photo Contest saw the yearly exhibition inside Brochstein Pavilion Feb. 28,
'A force of good': PJHC program at Rice turns 10
March 2, 2020
What does the future hold for journalism?
It’s all in the timing at Rice Theatre
March 2, 2020
Kavraki honored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
March 2, 2020
Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award for her fundamental contributions to robot design.
‘Smart water’ may aid oil recovery
March 2, 2020
Rice University engineers study the mechanism that would allow “smart water" to aid oil recovery from reservoirs.