Juneteenth event addresses Rice's history and topics of African American life Jun. 18, 2021
Task force proposes competition to redesign Academic Quad, determine fate of statue.
Rice News Archive - 2021
Odd angles make for strong spin-spin coupling Jun. 18, 2021
HOUSTON – (May 25, 2021) – Sometimes things are a little out of whack, and it turns out to be exactly what you need.
Executives wildly overestimate financial benefits of strategy planning, research finds Jun. 18, 2021
Research shows executives likely to overestimate financial benefits of strategy planning
Cruz Jr. out to guide Rice back to baseball's elite Jun. 18, 2021
One of the cornerstones of Rice's rise to prominence in college baseball, José Cruz Jr., has returned to his alma mater as the 22nd head baseball coach of the Owls.
Dateline Rice for June 17, 2021 Jun. 17, 2021
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL With temperatures soaring in Texas, fragile power grid in new danger Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted. The Hill http://dateline.rice/june-17-cohan
Rice U. study: Use rewards effectively to boost creativity Jun. 17, 2021
HOUSTON – (June 17, 2021) – To boost employees’ creativity, managers should consider offering a set of rewards for them to choose from, according to a new study by management experts at Rice University, Tulane University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and National Taiwan Normal University.
Rice celebrates Juneteenth and emancipations to come Jun. 17, 2021
Rice’s second annual Juneteenth celebration will bring together professors across the university — from Computational and Applied Mathematics to Modern and Classical Literature and Cultures — for three panels exploring ideas and questions central to the meaning and promise of the important holiday.
Seismic study will help keep carbon underground Jun. 17, 2021
A Department of Energy grant to Rice geoscientists enables development of fiber-optic sensors to find and evaluate small faults at underground carbon dioxide storage reservoirs.
Dateline Rice for June 16, 2021 Jun. 16, 2021
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL Texas power grid, strained last winter, now faces an early heat wave Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted in numerous media outlets. Cohan and Michelle Michot Foss, fellow in energy and minerals in the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute, are quoted in Corridor News. The New York Times (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the June 16 print edition.) http://dateline.rice/june-16-cohan
Shepherd School presents virtual opera June 24 and 25: ‘L’enfant et les sortilèges’ Jun. 16, 2021
Magical toys, the spoiled child who torments them and a story of redemption is the focus of "L'enfant et les sortilèges," the Rice University Shepherd School of Music's latest opera production, once again offered in a virtual format due to the ongoing pandemic.
Sickle cell advance incorporates Rice lab's tech Jun. 16, 2021
Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao, a pioneer in the search for a way to treat and perhaps cure sickle cell disease, is co-author of a significant step forward revealed in Science Translational Medicine and led by his colleagues at Stanford University.
People, papers and presentations Jul 14, 2021 Jun. 14, 2021
Lydia Kavraki, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and director of the Ken Kennedy Institute, is co-author of a commentary in the National Academy of Medicine on how the pandemic’s unprecedented stress on the U.S. health care system revealed its fragility and suggests how it could accelerate the advance of telehealth and digital medicine.
US and Mexico must work together on asylum, say Baker Institute experts Jun. 14, 2021
A strong, well-functioning Mexican asylum system is in the best interest of both Mexican and United States governments, but it requires increased coordination from both sides, according to the findings of a new study from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Refugee Solidarity Network.
Argentine officials visit Rice Jun. 14, 2021
A delegation of top Argentine officials visited Rice June 8 for a meeting with President David Leebron and others from the university community to explore opportunities for collaboration, such as student and faculty exchange, study abroad programs and research.
Dateline Rice for June 14, 2021 (Weekend Edition) Jun. 14, 2021
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