Leebron receives diversity award
President David Leebron was honored with the 2021 Diversity Champion Award from the Association of Chinese American Professionals.
NEST360 wins 2021 Innovating for Impact Partnership Award
NEST360, an international alliance with roots at Rice University’s Rice 360º Institute for Global Health, has won the Global Health Technologies Coalition 2021 Innovating for Impact Partnership Award for its efforts to end preventable newborn deaths in African hospitals.
Hurricane Harvey led to poorer physical, mental health among Houston adults
Hurricane Harvey had a significant impact on the mental and physical health of Houstonians, especially those living in areas that suffered the most structural damage, according to a new study from Rice University.
12 questions for Nichole Ayers, Rice’s newest astronaut
Rice alumna and fighter pilot Nichole Ayers joins NASA's astronaut corps.
NSF grant supports study of cells’ early decisions
Rice University receives National Science Foundation support to build a model of cell differentiation during the earliest stage of life. The model could help improve researchers’ ability to direct stem cells to a given fate.
Should digital advertisers be taxed on the data they collect from us?
Is it legal — or even appropriate — for governments to tax digital advertisers on the user data collected from consumers? That’s one of the many questions public policy makers must grapple with as they look for new ways to collect taxes from the digital economy, according to a new policy brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Undergrads share research on Texas slave trade
Rice undergraduates presented alongside historians and experts on the intra-American slave trade at the “Bound Away” conference Dec. 3-4
The annual Baker College freshman camping trip to cut down a Christmas tree brought home a beauty this year
The final “Team Family Wiess” get-together of the semester invited Wiess College associates to bring their pets to campus.
Rice reaches second round of NCAA volleyball tourney before bowing out
The Rice volleyball team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last week before bowing out against the Austin Regional host, the University of Texas.
“Through the Ages” was the theme of this year’s Dhamaka, the annual cultural showcase for the Rice South Asian Society.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 6, 2021
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has appointed Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business, to its Houston Branch board of directors, and assistant professor of chemistry Julian West has won a Thieme Chemistry Journals Award for early career synthetic chemists.
Architecture studio wins honors in Seoul
With perseverance, a Rice Architecture studio landed a top prize in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021.
Patents as loan collateral can help businesses meet financial needs, study shows
Patents are becoming an innovative source of collateral for businesses borrowing money, and there’s a time-critical sweet spot for lenders trying to calculate how much those patents are worth, according to new research from Rice University experts and collaborators.