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Rice chemist wins grant to simplify drug design

Rice Business launches deferred enrollment program

Rice establishes COVID-19 research fund, offers nearby hospitals housing on campus for health care workers

As part of a coordinated effort to combat COVID-19, Rice University has established a research accelerator fund to support projects intended to help end the pandemic and prepare for similar outbreaks in the future.

Texas Climate Power Dialogue set for April 7

Rice’s Glasscock School offers free, online learning sessions during pandemic

Fiscal interventions must stay targeted and apolitical, say Baker Institute experts

Rice sociologist available to discuss how the religious will 'gather' on holidays amid COVID-19

Rice insight gives Large Hadron Collider better eyesight

Pandemic expected to affect natural gas only in short term, says Baker Institute expert

Republicans more likely to invest in stocks during coronavirus market crash, says Rice U. expert

HOUSTON – (March 31, 2020) – The downturn in the stock market has rattled most investors but also created unprecedented long-term investment opportunities, according to expert at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business.

Rice researchers create interactive map of COVID cases in Texas

HOUSTON – (March 31, 2020) – A team of researchers in the Center for Research Computing’s Spatial Studies Lab at Rice University has created an interactive map showing all cases of COVID-19 across Texas utilizing public health data. The map is now online at coronavirusintexas.org.

Machine learning can help increase liver cancer screening rates, says Rice U. expert

HOUSTON – (March 31, 2020) – Targeting patients with machine learning can increase the number of people getting liver cancer screenings, according to a National Institutes of Health-sponsored study by a research team from Rice University, Texas A&M University, Iowa State University and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Global health expert available to discuss COVID-19 threat to hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa

Rice University bioengineer and global health pioneer Rebecca Richards-Kortum is available to discuss how hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa are preparing to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ventilator costing less than $300 developed by Rice University and Metric Technologies

Rice staff, students and partners have developed an automated bag valve mask ventilator unit that can be built for less than $300 worth of parts and helps critically ill COVID-19 patients.

Pandemic may be Mexican leadership's undoing, says Baker Institute expert

HOUSTON – (March 27, 2020) – The coronavirus pandemic is testing Mexico's leaders and their ability to handle a crisis, according to an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.