Study uncovers neural mechanisms underlying foraging behavior in freely moving animals Apr. 19, 2024
Rice neuroscientist Valentin Dragoi and team shed light on what happens in the brain of freely-moving macaques engaged in foraging behavior.
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Semiconductor heat management company wins 2024 NRLC hosted by Lilie Apr. 19, 2024
HEXASpec won the top prize and $50,000 cash at the 2024 H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge (NRLC) hosted by Rice University’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) April 16.
Dateline Rice for April 18, 2024 Apr. 18, 2024
Dateline Rice for April 18, 2024
Rice bioengineers win $1.4M ARPA-H grant for osteoarthritis research Apr. 18, 2024
Bioengineers at Rice University have been awarded $1.4 million as part of a multi-center consortium funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop strategies for reversing the effects of osteoarthritis.
Visualizing catastrophe: Rice professor explores natural disasters through photography Apr. 18, 2024
Before the doors opened for “La Furia del Viento,” a long line of Cuban and foreign patrons had already formed outside Fototeca de Cuba for the March 8 opening of the exhibition.
Rice alumna wins prestigious merit-based fellowship for new Americans Apr. 17, 2024
Rice University alumna Minjung Kim is one of 30 recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants.
Students organize panel discussion about social movement activism for course’s final project Apr. 17, 2024
Under the guidance of Anthony Pinn, Rice University’s Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities and founding director of the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL), students in Religion 216 spent the spring semester delving into the complex intersections of religion, politics and social justice, particularly within the context of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Rice PRIDE celebrates its first LGBTQ parade, hosts Gayla Apr. 17, 2024
LGBTQ Owls and allies gathered on the Rice University campus April 13 to partake in the group’s first ever pride parade. Organized by Rice PRIDE, the event included poster-making, speeches by organizers and swag items like pins and tie-dyed T-shirts.
New book from Rice anthropologist: ‘Our fossilized civilization has no sustainable future’ Apr. 17, 2024
What would the world look like with no fossils — and therefore no fossil fuels?
Duke-Makerere team claims first place in Rice360 design competition Apr. 17, 2024
A team of undergraduate students from Duke University and Makerere University won the top prize at the Rice360 Institute’s annual Global Health Technologies Design Competition as 24 international teams representing seven countries participated in the event April 12.
Dateline Rice for April 17, 2024 Apr. 17, 2024
Dateline Rice for April 17, 2024
Rice, Lone Star College celebrate agreement helping transfer students complete Rice degrees without losing credits Apr. 17, 2024
Rice and LSC celebrated the renewal of a memorandum of understanding and the signing of an articulation agreement to allow transfer students in LSC’s Take Flight Program to receive Rice credit for core science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses completed at LSC.
Rice engineering student builds Rice campus out of Lego pieces Apr. 17, 2024
Rice engineering student Andrew Linhart built a full scale model of the Rice campus using over 8,000 Lego pieces and help from his friends.
Woodson’s First Folio makes guest appearance at HSPVA’s ‘Book of Will’ Apr. 17, 2024
Before the curtain rose on opening night of the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts ’ (HSPVA) performance of “The Book of Will,” the actors, technical team and faculty advisors gathered on stage to greet a special visitor: a part of the First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays, from Rice University’s Woodson Research Center.
Student research highlighted during Social Sciences Undergraduate Research + Creative Symposium Apr. 17, 2024
Research on racial identity and fair pay, mental and physical health, foreign affairs and other topics was on display at the Social Sciences Undergraduate Research + Creative Symposium (SSURS) held April 11 at Rice University’s Kraft Hall.
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