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Rice team’s cancer-treatment device scores major award

June 4, 2020

Rice engineering students won a grand prize at the Design of Medical Devices Conference for their invention to simplify treatment of late-stage cervical cancer

NASA Flight Surgeon Dr. Rob Mulcahy '08 in Johnson Space Center's mission control room.

Meet the Rice alum in charge of NASA's prelaunch quarantine program

June 2, 2020

NASA flight surgeon Rob Mulcahy '08 was in charge of the prelaunch quarantine -- a precaution doubly important during the COVID-19 pandemic -- for the space agency's first manned mission to launch from the U.S. in almost a decade.

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An accelerated COVID-19 vaccine? Not so fast

June 2, 2020

Health experts from Rice’s Baker Institute discuss development process

Rice University scientists analyzed the motion of single boron nitride nanotubes. The nanotubes are stable semiconductors and excellent conductors of heat. They could be useful as building blocks for composite materials or in biomedical studies. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

Exotic nanotubes move in less mysterious ways

June 2, 2020

Rice University researchers capture the first video of boron nitride nanotubes in motion to prove their potential for materials and medical applications.

Photo by Brandon Martin

Webinar to explore how COVID-19 might change cities forever

June 1, 2020

Free event features director of Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research

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Leebron: We must act to reduce deadly discrimination and racism

June 1, 2020

Laurence Yeung

Rice scientist goes deep to improve environmental tracers

June 1, 2020

Rice Earth scientist Laurence Yeung earns a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to improve our understanding of the biosphere’s productivity.

Elaine Howard Ecklund. Photo by Jeff Fitlow.

Rice sociologist's new book examines why science and faith need each other

June 1, 2020

The scientific and faith communities are often perceived as being at odds, but a new book from a Rice University sociologist explores why they need each other, now more than ever.

2020 Hertz Fellows

Three Rice students receive Hertz Fellowships

June 1, 2020

The Hertz Fellowship is as prestigious as it is selective: Only 16 fellows each year are admitted to the program, which funds five years of graduate research and offers lifelong professional support through the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

Illustration of coronavirus overlaid with a field of 1s and 0s.

AMD gives supercomputer to Rice for COVID-19 research

June 1, 2020

AMD is donating a petaflop-scale supercomputer to Rice University to speed progress on pandemic-related research.

Jan Odegard

Jan Odegard named interim executive director of the Ion

June 1, 2020

Jan Odegard has been named interim executive director of the Ion, the future hub of the Midtown innovation and technology district.

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Four decades of changes in Houston chronicled in new book by Rice's Klineberg

June 1, 2020

Over the past four decades, Houston has undergone an extraordinary economic upheaval and demographic transformation — and Rice University's Stephen Klineberg has watched it happen from the unique perspective of his annual Kinder Houston Area Survey.

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Rice's OpenStax Institutional Partner Program to offer expanded benefits, support in 2020-21 academic year

June 1, 2020

HOUSTON – (June 1, 2020) – OpenStax, Rice University’s education technology initiative, today opened applications for its 2020-2021 Institutional Partner Program. The deadline to apply is June 25.

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Immigration system needs improvement, not termination, Baker Institute experts say

June 1, 2020

The United States needs innovative approaches to solve the pressing issue of immigrants living in the country illegally — and should use existing programs as a guide — according to experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Richard Gilder

Rice friend and benefactor Richard Gilder dies at 87

May 29, 2020

Richard Gilder, an investor, philanthropist and passionate advocate of history and education, died May 12 at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 87.

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