Nature’s archive reveals Atlantic tempests through time Sep. 7, 2021
Rice scientists uncover how natural archives can record Atlantic hurricane frequency over the past 1,000 years. SUMMARY: Rice University scientists uncover how natural archives can record Atlantic hurricane frequency over the past 1,000 years. More data is needed to help model how climate change will affect storms in the future.
Rice announces new faculty funding opportunities Sep. 7, 2021
Rice's Office of Research launches three Creative Ventures Funds to seed faculty initiatives and guide them towards commercialization.
Bon voyage Sep. 7, 2021
Jazz musicians Brandon and Daleton Lee played a powerful send-off for Sondra Perry's monumental "Ocean Modifier," which closed its year-long installation at the Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion on September 2.
Cristina Rivera Garza talks medicine, language and bodies in Sept. 22 lecture Sep. 7, 2021
The 'Genius Grant' winner and fiction writer will read from her work in English and Spanish.
Biden continues Trump’s ‘benign neglect’ of USMCA Sep. 7, 2021
HOUSTON – (Sept. 7, 2021) – Mexican officials are right to worry that the United States’ “rules of origin” interpretation in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement could reduce Mexican automobile production and investment, according to an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Dateline Rice for Sept. 3, 2021 Sep. 3, 2021
Webinar will explore Mexico’s 'improvised war' on drugs Sep. 3, 2021
HOUSTON – (Sept. 2, 2021) – Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s approach to combating organized crime and the country's “improvised” war on drugs will be the subject of a webinar from the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Dateline Rice for Sept. 2, 2021 Sep. 2, 2021
The Way I See It: Parenting is the mother of gender inequality in science Sep. 1, 2021
The pandemic has laid bare the gender inequities in the scientific community, as women’s publication rates have been hit much harder than men’s by the need, for instance, to home-school children.
Dateline Rice for Sept. 1, 2021 Sep. 1, 2021
Welch Institute names Matthew Tirrell to chair Scientific Advisory Board Sep. 1, 2021
The Welch Institute for Advanced Materials has named Matthew Tirrell to chair its Scientific Advisory Board
Rice physicists find 'magnon' origins in 2D magnet Sep. 1, 2021
Rice physicists have confirmed the topological origins of magnons, magnetic features they discovered three years ago in a 2D material that could prove useful for spintronics.
Double-walled nanotubes have electro-optical advantages Aug. 31, 2021
Rice theorists find that flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes could be highly useful for photovoltaic applications.
Dateline Rice for Aug. 31, 2021 Aug. 31, 2021
