Rice News Archive - 2021

Rice Holistic Garden aerial view by Brandon Martin

Fall plant sale starts Oct. 4 at Rice Holistic Garden Sep. 29, 2021

Rice University engineers are developing a noninvasive skullcap to better understand how the brain disposes of metabolic waste while the wearer sleeps.

US Army backs ‘sleeping cap’ to help brains take out the trash Sep. 29, 2021

Rice engineers are developing a noninvasive device to understand how the brain disposes of metabolic waste during sleep.

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Dateline Rice for Sept. 29, 2021 Sep. 29, 2021

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Dateline Rice for Sept. 27, 2021 (Weekend Edition) Sep. 29, 2021

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Sylvia Dee wins fellowship to launch Gulf of Mexico study Sep. 28, 2021

Sylvia Dee, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, wins an early-career fellowship to pursue Gulf of Mexico research.

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Dateline Rice for Sept. 28, 2021 Sep. 28, 2021

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Behind the scenes: What does a dramaturg do? Sep. 27, 2021

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Maryland health care payment model reduces costs and complications, study shows Sep. 27, 2021

Maryland health care payment model reduces costs and complications, study shows

"The Sand Recalls the Moon's Shadow" now on exhibition at the Moody Center for the Arts.

Minimal gestures, grand scale: Kapwani Kiwanga fall exhibition now open at the Moody Sep. 27, 2021

‘The Sand Recalls the Moon’s Shadow’ runs through Dec. 19.

It isn't September without a Baker College Christmas, a tradition dating back decades. This year's festivities included gingerbread house-building in the commons and pizza al fresco to the strains of "Feliz Navidad."

Feliz navidad Sep. 27, 2021

It isn't September without a Baker College Christmas, a tradition dating back decades. This year's festivities included gingerbread house-building in the commons and pizza al fresco to the strains of "Feliz Navidad." (Photos by Aidan Gerber)

Sept. 24, the party moved to the Ray Courtyard outside the Rice Memorial Center, where the GSA hosted a welcome-back party for returning grad students and their new peers, many of whom danced well into the night.

Party masters Sep. 27, 2021

Following a scavenger hunt across campus, a big batch of brand-new Rice grad students refueled with gigantic slices of pizza and ice pops at the Sept. 23 orientation picnic hosted by the Graduate Student Association (GSA)

It’s a mitzvah to wave the lulav on each of the first seven days of Sukkot, as demonstrated Sept. 24 by Rabbi Shmuli Slonim of Rice’s Chabad Center.

The four species Sep. 27, 2021

In 1984, Michael Heizer’s massive triptych of pink granite monoliths, “45°, 90°, 180°,” became the first major commission of public art on campus. These days, it’s common to find Rice students spreading out and enjoying the weather on nice days atop the flat surface of the 180-degree monolith, with its pleasant view of the Engineering Quad.

Playing the angles Sep. 27, 2021

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American Chemical Society honors Gustavo Scuseria Sep. 27, 2021

Rice University’s Gustavo Scuseria wins the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry.

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NSF-backed ‘team of teams’ raises stakes for master’s students Sep. 27, 2021

Four institutions will share an NSF grant of nearly $5 million to support scholarships for students seeking master’s degrees in engineering and related fields.