With way more than six feet between you and your opponent, table tennis in the college commons was the ideal indoor social distance sport during O-Week. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)
Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original
First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasers.
Small quake clusters can’t hide from AI
A deep learning algorithm developed at Rice University analyzes data from a deadly landslide in Greenland to show how it may someday predict seismic events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Rice football game vs. Lamar canceled; volleyball and soccer move to spring
Rice and Lamar University have agreed to cancel their season-opening football game scheduled for Sept. 26 at Rice Stadium, and Conference USA has postponed the volleyball and soccer seasons to the spring.
Princeton Review: Rice has best quality of life in US
Rice rates among the top 20 in 16 different categories measured in the 2021 edition of the Princeton Review’s “The Best 386 Colleges,” a closely watched annual report on student reviews of the nation’s colleges and universities.
China’s economic slowdown may hurt global oil market, says Baker Institute expert
A slowdown in China’s demand for oil would profoundly affect the multitrillion-dollar global oil market along with many related industries, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Remote control: CTE’s Adaptive Course Design Institute prepares professors for teaching online
Rice professors set it all aside this summer to learn all about the best new tools for teaching online.
Rice Cinema film series screening outdoors, online this semester
VADA is hosting BYOChair movie nights during the fall 2020 semester.
'Is This the End?' Big Questions courses tackle truth, ethics and the apocalypse
Two new Humanities classes will explore questions for which there is no 'right' answer.
Rice Architecture lecture series views race, social justice
Rice Architecture is charging ahead with a full slate of virtual lectures this fall with a theme of race, social justice and allyship.
Jackie McCauley, first Black woman admitted to Rice as undergrad, dies at 73
Jacqueline Elizabeth “Jackie” McCauley, the first Black woman admitted to Rice, died Aug. 9 in Canberra, Australia, at 73.
MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream' speech to be revisited in Aug. 28 lecture by Walter Earl Fluker
In commemoration of the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) will host an Aug. 28 lecture via Zoom by renowned speaker Walter Earl Fluker.
Oden named Biomedical Engineering Society fellow
Professor Oden is director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen and co-director of the Rice 360˚ Institute for Global Health.
OpenStax Institutional Partner Network grows to reach diverse student populations
HOUSTON – (Aug. 18, 2020) – OpenStax, Rice University’s openly licensed textbook publisher, welcomed a dozen new colleges and universities to its Institutional Partner Network that together serve the most diverse student populations the program has ever seen.
Heart attack damage reduced by shielded stem cells
Bioengineers and surgeons from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have shown in rodents that a four-week shielded stem cell treatment can reduce damage caused by a heart attack.