CPRIT supports work on combo cancer therapy
February 17, 2022
Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao is developing a three-pronged attack on solid cancer tumors. The research now has the support of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Environmental champions win Rice grants
February 16, 2022
The Rice University Sustainable Futures Fund backs six projects to help bolster the planet’s environmental health.
As time goes on, Americans are moving less often
February 16, 2022
Migration in the United States has been on a downward trend since the 1960s, according to new research from Rice University.
Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, announced as Rice’s 2022 commencement speaker
February 16, 2022
Sonia Nazario, an award-winning journalist whose work has tackled some of the United States’ most intractable problems — hunger, drug addiction and immigration — will deliver the 2022 commencement address at Rice University.
Rice Theatre presents ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’
February 15, 2022
Acclaimed musical comedy comes to Hamman Hall Feb. 25-26, March 3-5
Strong magnets put new twist on phonons
February 15, 2022
Phonons, quasiparticles in a crystal lattice that are usually hard to control by external fields, can be manipulated by a magnetic field -- but it takes a very strong magnet.
February freeze analyzed one year later
February 15, 2022
Last February’s severe winter storm caused sustained peaks in demand for electricity across Texas, triggering tremendous stress on the state’s power grid and widespread outages lasting days. Now a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy examines why the winter storm caused this deadly electricity supply crisis and how it could have been avoided.
Kolditz, director of Rice's Doerr Institute, announces departure
February 14, 2022
Tom Kolditz, director of Rice University's Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders, has announced his departure from Rice effective June 30, 2022. He will remain with the institute as a member of its external advisory board.
OpenStax, state set resource creation event for educators
February 10, 2022
OpenStax, Rice University’s educational technology initiative, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) will host a free, virtual event for Texas educators to create and revise open educational resources (OER) Feb. 17 and 18.
Richard Baraniuk named to National Academy of Engineering
February 10, 2022
Rice University engineer, OpenStax founder Richard Baraniuk is named a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Clearly, this heart beats strong
February 9, 2022
In time for Valentine’s Day, engineers at Rice University and Waseda University provide a realistic view of what happens inside a beating heart.
Rare earth elements await in waste
February 9, 2022
Rice University scientists applied their flash Joule heating process to coal fly ash and other toxic waste to safely extract rare earth elements essential to modern electronics and green technologies.
Anastasios Kyrillidis wins NSF CAREER Award
February 8, 2022
Rice computer scientist will explore the theory and design of non-convex optimization algorithms, which are increasingly important for machine learning.
Rice student Jasmine Manansala to compete in 'Jeopardy!' National College Championship Feb. 8
February 7, 2022
Rice's Jasmine Manansala, a Brown College senior majoring in computer science and cognitive science, is a contestant in the "Jeopardy!" National College Championship that begins airing Feb. 8.
Rice team’s mask strategy passes muster
February 7, 2022
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a team at Rice University went looking for and found a way to make standard surgical masks better at keeping out small airborne droplets that might contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus.