Rice helping study how soil health improvement can boost crops
America’s farmers rely on a host of practices such as cover cropping and crop rotation to maintain soil health, grow more productive crops and feed the U.S. and countries around the world. However, current research is too sparse to precisely demonstrate how these practices can actually affect the yields and bottom line for farmers.
Decontamination method zaps pollutants from soil
A rapid, high-heat electrothermal soil remediation process developed by Rice scientists and collaborators at the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center flushes out both organic pollutants and heavy metals in seconds without damaging soil fertility.
Sherwin K. Bryant named director of Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies
Sherwin K. Bryant, a leading scholar of slavery, race and the early modern African diaspora, will join Rice University Jan. 1 as director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) and an associate professor in the Department of History.
Rice to host top Central American scholars from Gulf Coast
Rice University will host the first meeting of the Third Coast Central America Collaborative, a group of scholars and students from the Gulf Coast region that aims to create a network of committed students and scholars of Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras and the Central American immigrant communities in the United States, Oct. 20–21.
Rice Baker Institute’s David Satterfield appointed special envoy to Middle East by President Biden
David Satterfield, director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey, was appointed Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues by President Joe Biden Oct. 15 to coordinate diplomatic efforts to address the critical humanitarian issues resulting from Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel.
Rice Biotech Launch Pad expands external advisory board with Kevin Sheridan
Rice University today announced the addition of Kevin Sheridan to its external advisory board for the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, a Houston-based accelerator focused on expediting the translation of the university’s health and medical technology discoveries into cures.
Tunes on wheels: Rice Shepherd School bringing free music to community via The Concert Truck
Classical music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music is coming to several locations around Houston Oct. 24 and 26 thanks to a fully functioning mobile concert hall called The Concert Truck.
Rice astronomy experts available to discuss Oct. 14 annular eclipse
Rice University professors of physics and astronomy Patrick Hartigan and Patricia Reiff are available to discuss the Oct. 14 annular eclipse.
Baker Institute experts available to discuss Israel-Hamas war
Experts from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy are available to discuss the Hamas attack on Israel, Israel’s response and the implications for foreign policy and global energy developments.
Top university entrepreneurship centers announced at GCEC conference
The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC), headquartered at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship in Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, brought leading university entrepreneurship programs together to celebrate creativity and innovation in university-based entrepreneurship education for its annual conference Oct. 5-7 and announced the top programs in higher education.
Rice-engineered material can reconnect severed nerves
Rice neuroengineers designed the first self-rectifying magnetoelectric material and showed it can not only precisely stimulate neurons remotely but also reconnect a broken sciatic nerve in a rat model.
Climate catastrophe produced instantaneous evolutionary change
A unique experiment by Rice University biologists in the wake of 2017’s Hurricane Harvey that revealed species can instantly evolve when they move in response to a climate catastrophe.
Rice, Houston Methodist to unveil state-of-the-art Center for Human Performance Oct. 10
Rice University and Houston Methodist will unveil the Houston Methodist-Rice University Center for Human Performance in an Oct. 10 kickoff event featuring demonstrations of the center’s state-of-the-art capabilities.
A new National Science Foundation-funded study by Rice University will examine whether design strategies aimed at improving civic engagement in stormwater infrastructure could help reduce catastrophic flooding.
DREAM tool for gene therapies uses ‘locally sourced’ components
Rice bioengineers developed a tool that activates silent or insufficiently expressed genes using human-derived building blocks and a CRISPR-based genome-targeting platform.
