Rice to admit fans for football home finale
A limited number of fans will be admitted to the Rice football team's final home game of the season Dec. 12 against the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the university has announced.
Rice Business online MBA program earns high marks in its first year
Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business placed in the top 10 of five categories in The Princeton Review's latest rankings of the Best Business Schools for 2021, including the No. 6 spot for its newest program, MBA@Rice.
Vitamin boosts essential synthetic chemistry
Inspired by light-sensing bacteria that thrive near hot oceanic vents, synthetic chemists use vitamin B12 to catalyze valuable hydrocarbons known as olefins, or alkenes, useful precursor molecules for the manufacture of drugs and agrochemicals.
'Pink tax' hurts female consumers, but electing more women combats it
HOUSTON – (Dec. 8, 2020) – The wage gap between men and women is no secret, but another form of gender discrimination directly and disproportionately affects women worldwide: the "pink tax" imposed by import tariffs that target female products.
Can gender inequality kill? Paper looks at impact among older Indian women
HOUSTON – (Dec. 7, 2020) – Indian women past childbearing age are dying at a higher rate than those in other countries because of poverty and limited access to resources such as food and health care, according to a study from Rice University.
Task Force hosts conversation with Rice’s first Black student, Raymond Johnson
Johnson’s discussion was the third “Black at Rice” webinar convened this semester to offer dialogue on the Black student experience.
“Doc Talks” podcast sheds light on new research and other behind-the-scenes work done by Rice historians and students alike.
Owls claim first football victory over ranked foe since 1997
Naeem Smith's 36-yard touchdown return on one of Rice's five interceptions helped the Owls defeat 15th-ranked Marshall University 20-0 Saturday for the football program's first victory over a Top 25 opponent in more than two decades.
Scientists get the lowdown on sun’s super-hot atmosphere
Images of the sun captured by the IRIS mission show new details of how low-lying loops of plasma are energized, and may also reveal how the hot corona is created.
People, papers and presentations Dec 7,2020
Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of computer science, is co-author of the introduction to “The Science of Deep Learning,” a special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hidden structure found in essential metabolic machinery
Rice University biochemists have discovered membrane-divided subcompartments within organelles called peroxisomes, essential pieces of metabolic machinery for all higher order life from yeast to humans. The research appears this week in Nature Communications.
Rice physicist shares grant to advance imaging
The lab of physicist Junichiro Kono will share in a $1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve imaging of proteins, cells and tissues.
Chemists get peek at novel fluorescence
Rice chemists find a second level of fluorescence in single-walled carbon nanotubes. The phenomenon may be useful in solar energy and optoelectronic applications.
Nuclear threat experts to examine global security in webinar
Former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn and former secretary of energy Ernest Moniz will discuss the state of global security related to nuclear and biological threats in a Dec. 7 webinar hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Mitochondrial stress ‘ages’ astronauts
Astronauts appear to age faster in space, but understanding why could mitigate the effects for future long-distance travelers.