Rice News Archive - 2021

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Dateline Rice for May 27, 2021 May. 27, 2021

Moshe Vardi

Moshe Vardi earns top computer science honor May. 27, 2021

Rice's Moshe Vardi has won the 2021 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award for his influential work at the interface of logic and computer science.

Biologists at Baylor College of Medicine, the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Rice University show in a study published in Science that the nuclear arrangement in a human cell can be turned into that typical of a fly. (Credit: Illustration by Evgeny Gromov)

Biologists construct a ‘periodic table’ for cell nuclei May. 27, 2021

A team of biologists studying the tree of life has unveiled a new classification system for cell nuclei, and discovered a method for transmuting one type of cell nucleus into another.

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Dateline Rice for May 26, 2021 May. 26, 2021

President Leebron

Leebron to step down from Rice presidency in June 2022 May. 26, 2021

HOUSTON – (May 26, 2021) – Rice University President David Leebron has announced he plans to leave his position at the end of the next academic year after nearly two decades at the helm of one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning.

A microcolony of Methylorubrum extorquens that survives by consuming methanol also produces formaldehyde as a necessary, but toxic, byproduct. Scientists at the University of Idaho and Rice University discovered the microbe also produces a sensor protein, EfgA, that keeps the toxin in check to protect the organism. Photo by Nkrumah Grant/University of Idaho

Bacteria have sensors to shut toxin down May. 26, 2021

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Idaho helped identify a protein that senses and binds to formaldehyde to tell cells that toxic formaldehyde is building up.

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Dateline Rice for May 25, 2021 May. 25, 2021

Slave trade ledger

World’s largest database on history of slave trade now housed at Rice May. 24, 2021

SlaveVoyages.org is the result of years of research, reengineered for the future by Rice and a newly formed consortium.

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Dateline Rice for May 24, 2021 (Weekend Edition) May. 24, 2021

Voting Box

Mexico’s democracy examined in Baker Institute webinar May. 24, 2021

Ahead of upcoming midterm elections in Mexico, a half-day event from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy will examine the future of democracy in the country.

Flood Map

Rice builds FIRST flood-alert system for City of Houston May. 24, 2021

SSPEED Center's early-warning system covers hospitals, nursing homes, other critical facilities on Brays, Sims, Hunting and White Oak bayous.

Smiling Professor

Pristine quantum criticality found May. 24, 2021

U.S. and Austrian physicists searching for evidence of quantum criticality in topological materials have found one of the most pristine examples yet observed.

Opera Signer

Rice Shepherd School student, alum winners of Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions May. 24, 2021

Rice Shepherd School student Emily Treigle and alum Duke Kim '18 were named grand finals winners of the 2021 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition.

Consortium

Rice Business expands operations management, recruits top scholar May. 22, 2021

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Dateline Rice for May 21, 2021 May. 21, 2021