Kiese Laymon, the renowned Black Southern writer and the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English in the School of Humanities, in...
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COVID-19 amplified hardship for many Harvey victims
September 13, 2022
A study shows the economic and mental health consequences on victims of Hurricane Harvey and COVID-19 were cumulative.
JFK: We will go to the moon. NASA: We will go farther
September 12, 2022
NASA and Rice celebrate the 60th anniversary of JFK's moon speech with a promise that his goal was just a beginning.
Owls flock to Student Activities Fair
September 12, 2022
Seasoned Rice Owls and new students alike were invited to the annual Student Activities Fair Sept. 1. Held in the student center and the adjacent Central Quad, Rice’s over 200 student clubs and campus departments set up shop to spread the word about their organizations and how interested students can get involved.
Rice anthropologists available to discuss ongoing impact of world's first memorial to a lost glacier
September 12, 2022
Three years after Rice anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer received worldwide media attention for hosting a funeral for Iceland's first major glacier lost to climate change, their project has inspired a Belgian performance artist to replace 1 ton of ice on the site of the former glacier.
Rice part of multi-institution grant to study teacher education and development
September 12, 2022
A three-year National Science Foundation grant will fund a multi-institution study of how social networks affect teacher education development.
Rice rises to No. 15 in US News rankings
September 12, 2022
Rice has risen to No. 15 among the nation’s top universities ranked in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook.
Optical rule was made to be broken
September 12, 2022
Engineers at Rice University find a way to identify nanophotonic materials with the potential to improve screens for virtual reality and 3D displays along with optical technologies in general.
Drug testing programs reduce overdose deaths, says expert
September 12, 2022
Drug testing programs can reduce overdose deaths – but politics are getting in the way of the growing public health emergency, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
People, papers and presentations for Sept. 12, 2022
September 12, 2022
Rice statisticians Katherine Ensor and Loren Hopkins and civil and environmental engineer Lauren Stadler are co-authors of a commentary in Nature Medicine that issues an urgent call to scale up wastewater monitoring to detect early signs of disease.
Hey, space fans, we’ve got your number
September 10, 2022
Rice and NASA kicked off a three-day celebration of JFK's famous speech with a 'space selfie' at the stadium.
Rice mourns longtime engineering professor Marc Robert
September 9, 2022
Marc Robert, a professor in Rice's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering for 38 years, died Sept. 2 at age 72.
Department of Energy unveils geothermal ‘Earthshot’ at Ion
September 9, 2022
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, at the Ion, announces the government’s latest “Earthshot” initiative on enhanced geothermal energy.
NSF awards $15 million to Rice, partners to create southwest hub
September 9, 2022
The founding partners of the National Science Foundation Southwest I-Corps Node, co-established by Rice University, have been awarded a $15 million grant to form a hub that will expand the partnership to five additional universities.
September 8, 2022
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Rice University historian Aysha Pollnitz is available to discuss the queen’s historic reign. Meanwhile, David Alexander, the director of the Rice Space Institute and an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), is available to share his thoughts.
New Rice study: When it comes to military intervention, Americans prefer to ‘give peace a chance’
September 8, 2022
A new Rice University and University of Nevada, Las Vegas study on Americans’ attitudes about military intervention finds the public prefers when the U.S. works with other military powers, protects civilians and resolves conflicts peacefully.