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Five students joined peers from 30 institutions across Asia, Europe and North America to form the NextGen Symphony, a first-of-its-kind international ...
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June 7, 2021
In her final act of installation before the exhibition opening June 5, artist Brie Ruais dug up a handful of damp clay from the lawn outside the Moody Center for the Arts and used it to draw a line across the gallery walls. It leads visitors to the galleries into her full exhibition, which includes abstract ceramic sculptures and large, site-specific earthen mounds among other works.
June 7, 2021
Regular maintenance of James Turrell's “Twilight Epiphany” Skyspace includes spring cleaning, which took place after commencement in May, and requires a cherry picker and a team of pros to ensure the monumental piece of public art remains pristine.
People, papers and presentations Jul 7, 2021
June 7, 2021
Physics and astronomy graduate student Asa Stahl is gaining international attention for his children’s book, “The Big Bang,” illustrated by his collaborator in England, Carly Allen-Fletcher. The book was nominated for the Ezra Jack Keats Award, is a finalist for Japan’s Sakura Medal, won an honor in the 2021 International Literacy Association's Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards and was named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students by the National Science Teachers Association and Children's Book Council.
NIH grant boosts computational search for cancer drugs
June 7, 2021
Computer scientist Lydia Kavraki of Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering has won a prestigious National Institutes of Health U01 grant to develop a new approach to model and analyze protein-ligand interactions in cancer research.
Absorbent aerogels show some muscle
June 7, 2021
A simple chemical process developed at Rice University creates light and highly absorbent aerogels that can take a beating.
Bad romance: Negative relationships linked to worse physical and mental health in postpartum women
June 3, 2021
HOUSTON – (June 3, 2021) – Postpartum women in bad romantic relationships are not only more likely to suffer symptoms of depression, they are also at greater long-term risk of illness or death, according to new research from Rice University, Ohio State University and the University of California, Irvine.
OpenStax Institutional Partner Program expands for next academic year
June 3, 2021
OpenStax, Rice’s educational technology initiative, will welcome a dozen new colleges and universities serving diverse students across the United States to its Institutional Partner Program.
Hexagonal boron nitride's remarkable toughness unmasked
June 2, 2021
It's official: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the iron man of 2D materials, so resistant to cracking that it defies a century-old theoretical description engineers still use to measure toughness.
NIH supports mathematical optimization of tumor treatment
June 2, 2021
A new strategy to reduce the side effects suffered by patients undergoing treatment for head and neck cancers now has the support of the National Institutes of Health.
Cuthbertson, Tudor to be honored with ARA's Gold Medal at Laureates Awards ceremony
June 1, 2021
Rice alumni Robert Tudor III and the late Gilbert “Doc C” Cuthbertson will be recognized for their extraordinary service to the university with the Association of Rice’s Alumni’s (ARA) highest award — the Gold Medal — at the 2020-2021 Laureates Awards Virtual Celebration June 3. The association is also honoring eight others for distinguished accomplishments and meritorious service and recognizing two young alumni awardees.