Forced purchasing won’t promote textbook affordability, says OpenStax expert
March 10, 2020
HOUSTON – (March 10, 2020) – Higher education faculty are increasingly accepting and even preferring digital learning materials, especially as concerns grow about the cost of traditional textbooks, according to a new study, "Inflection Point: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2019."
The oil price war is on, says Baker Institute expert
March 10, 2020
HOUSTON – (March 10, 2020) – This week, global crude oil prices are seeing the biggest price decline since 1991 after Saudi Arabia announced its largest price discount in 30 years, according to an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice U. expert: Coronavirus crisis calls for 'in extremis' leadership
March 9, 2020
HOUSTON – (March 9, 2020) – The world is looking to its leaders for guidance and stability during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak — a situation that calls for "in extremis" leadership, according to a Rice University leadership expert.
Strong signals show how proteins come and go
March 9, 2020
Rice University bioscientists develop a versatile gene signal amplifier that can not only do a better job of detecting the expression of chromosomal genes than current methods but can potentially be used to detect any cellular gene.
March 9, 2020
New research offers a groovy answer to the question of what causes carbon nanotubes to align in ultrathin crystalline films discovered at Rice.
Robert Ladd elected Rice Board of Trustees chair
March 9, 2020
Rice University alumnus Robert T. Ladd ’78 has been elected chair of the Rice Board of Trustees, effective July 1.
Tissue-digging nanodrills do just enough damage
March 5, 2020
Scientists at Rice and their collaborators show light-activated molecular drills effectively kill cells in whole eukaryotic organisms.
Scientists create model to predict multipathogen epidemics
March 5, 2020
In one of the first studies of its kind, bioscientists from Rice University and the University of Michigan have shown how to use the interactions between pathogens in individual hosts to predict the severity of multipathogen epidemics.
New Rice University music building to be named Brockman Hall for Opera
March 4, 2020
Rice University's new music building will be named Brockman Hall for Opera and the 84,000-square-foot structure, along with Alice Pratt Brown Hall and its adjoining plaza, will be christened the Brockman Music and Performing Arts Center.
A small step for atoms, a giant leap for microelectronics
March 4, 2020
Rice materials scientist Boris Yakobson and colleagues in Taiwan and China report in Nature on making large single-crystal sheets of hexagonal boron nitride, touted as a key insulator in future two-dimensional electronics.
Vaping bans are ineffective, say Baker Institute experts
March 3, 2020
HOUSTON -- (March 3, 2020) – Vaping products have contributed to a decline in cigarette smoking but have increased the number of middle and high school students who are addicted to nicotine — a problem that can only be effectively addressed through regulation of advertising — according to drug policy experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Stem cell therapies' promise, perils in focus at Rice's Baker Institute
March 2, 2020
HOUSTON – (March 2, 2020) – A panel of experts will gather at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy to discuss the stem cell therapy landscape. The experts will highlight the treatments available today, describe why even negative clinical data can lead to new interventions and evaluate recent incidents of unregulated stem cell use harming patients.
‘Smart water’ may aid oil recovery
March 2, 2020
Rice University engineers study the mechanism that would allow “smart water" to aid oil recovery from reservoirs.
Deep learning rethink overcomes major obstacle in AI industry
March 2, 2020
Rice University computer scientists have overcome a major obstacle in the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry.
February 28, 2020
HOUSTON – (Feb. 28, 2020) – As the climate debate heats up ahead of the 2020 elections, the country's oil and gas companies want to get in front of the curve. But they may be hampered by a longstanding culture of playing defense, according to an energy industry expert at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business.