Dateline Rice for Aug. 21, 2024 Aug. 21, 2024
Dateline Rice for Aug. 21, 2024
Rice News Archive - 2024
Rice football kicks off 2024 season with Owl Fest Aug. 21, 2024
Rice football season is finally upon us, and with that comes unique events like Owl Fest, where Rice supporters are invited to meet the squad before the first game of the year.
‘All the little things’: Orientation weekend helps international undergrads settle in at Rice Aug. 21, 2024
By 9 a.m. on a humid Friday morning, Eduarda Favero was already racing around the halls of Rice’s Sid Richardson College, greeting anxious families, leading international students from 40 different countries to their rooms and answering a flurry of questions.
‘You all belong here’: Rice faculty offer words of inspiration to Class of 2028 Aug. 21, 2024
On the second morning of O-Week, Rice University’s Class of 2028 assembled in Tudor Fieldhouse to hear advice from a three-person panel of professors who shared their secrets for success — both at Rice and beyond. The faculty delivered short, TED Talk-style lectures encouraging new students to stay open to the possibilities the university offers.
Dateline Rice for Aug. 20, 2024 Aug. 20, 2024
Dateline Rice for Aug. 20, 2024
Researchers teaching artificial intelligence about frustration in protein folding Aug. 20, 2024
Peter Wolynes and his colleagues have found a new way to predict how proteins change their shape when they function.
Sanjoy Paul appointed executive director of the Rice Nexus, aims to ‘shape the future of technology’ Aug. 20, 2024
Rice has appointed Sanjoy Paul as executive director of the Rice Nexus, the university’s premier innovation factory in the Ion that will offer state-of-the-art facilities for prototyping, testing and launching new ventures by Rice faculty and students.
‘Make the lift lighter’: Rice football helps freshmen move into residential colleges Aug. 20, 2024
The morning after a grueling three-hour scrimmage, Rice Football players spread out over campus to help rookies tackle their first big college move.
ChatGPT could help people with creativity in everyday tasks, study says Aug. 20, 2024
ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence technology developed by OpenAI, could help humans with daily, creative tasks — even tasks typically thought to require the human ability to “read between the lines,” according to new research by the University of Houston and Rice University. Its capability has proven to be superior compared to traditional Google search or even human brainstorming without any technical assistance, the study authors argue.
‘Nothing is going to come easy’: A conversation between Olympians and astronauts Aug. 20, 2024
Rice helped bring together Olympic and Paralympic athletes with astronauts on board the International Space Station for a talk on the similarities between space exploration and elite sports.
‘Critical knowledge’: Weekly radio show deconstructs local, global environmental concerns Aug. 20, 2024
Gathered around the microphones in one of KPFT’s Houston studios, Weston Twardowski, Haley Schultz and Alondra Torres discussed the impact of the coal-powered W.A. Parish plant in Fort Bend County for episode 42 of “Gulf Streams.”
Rice’s Shepherd School clarinetist Najee Greenlee joins elite young artists with American Public Media feature, performance Aug. 19, 2024
Najee Greenlee, a clarinetist from Rice’s Shepherd School of Music, is making waves in the classical music world with his recent national performance, now live on the YourClassical platform hosted by American Public Media.
Musical powerhouses strengthen offerings at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music Aug. 19, 2024
Rice's Shepherd School of Music is celebrating the return of alumni Cristian Măcelaru and the addition of opera luminary Patrick Summers to its faculty.
Rice Emerging Scholars Program wraps 13th summer of operation Aug. 19, 2024
The Rice Emerging Scholars Program, an innovative, residential academic program designed to help first-year students prepare for the challenging pace, depth and rigor of the STEM curricula at Rice, recently concluded its summer programming with 50 students participating in the prematriculation program.
Rice welcomes the newest Owls into the nest at O-Week matriculation Aug. 19, 2024
“Welcome to Rice!” President Reginald DesRoches exclaimed at the Aug. 18 matriculation ceremony for the Class of 2028. After spending the day helping the new class of freshmen move into its residential colleges, DesRoches and university leadership celebrated the new students’ official entry into Rice at Tudor Fieldhouse to share their advice and support for the upcoming years.
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