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Rice’s Naomi Halas wins Mildred Dresselhaus Prize
October 25, 2023
Naomi Halas, a pioneering researcher in the fields of nanophotonics and plasmonics at Rice University, has been awarded the 2024 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize for Nanoscience/Nanomaterials from the American Physical Society.
Rice’s Gustavo Scuseria wins Aneesur Rahman Prize
October 24, 2023
Pioneering computational chemist Gustavo Scuseria has won the 2024 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.
Forbes named NCAA Woman of the Year top 30 finalist
October 23, 2023
Rice’s Grace Forbes was chosen as one of the Top 30 honorees for the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year Award, the organization announced Oct. 23.
Kesem at Rice holds team-bonding ‘Olympics’
October 23, 2023
Kesem at Rice threw an outdoor competition-themed social to enjoy the fall weather and inspire team-bonding among its many volunteers. The festivities, held on a knoll outside Brochstein Pavilion, included games like cup stacking, face the cookie, spoon-and-egg races and tug of war.
Rice welcomes United Arab Emirates health care leaders
October 23, 2023
Rice welcomed guests from the United Arab Emirates Oct. 12 and 17 as they toured the university’s BioScience Research Collaborative.
October 23, 2023
Rice Staff Council hosted its Fall Staff Social Oct. 20 at Valhalla. Staff members mingled while enjoying free food, drinks and conversation with their fellow colleagues and the university administration. Photos by Amy McCaig.
Owls capture first road AAC win
October 23, 2023
Rice secured its first road win in the American Athletic Conference and largest conference victory since 2013, defeating Tulsa University 42-10 on Oct. 19 at H.A. Chapman Stadium.
People, papers and presentations for Oct. 23, 2023
October 23, 2023
People, papers and presentations
Rice hosts distributed computing, machine learning colloquium
October 20, 2023
Rice hosted the Texas Colloquium on Distributed Learning, a two-day summit of talks on distributed computing and large-scale machine learning held at the new Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science.
Hans Graf returns to Houston to lead Rice Shepherd School Symphony Oct. 27
October 20, 2023
Grammy Award-winning conductor and former Houston Symphony music director Hans Graf will return to Houston Oct. 27 to guest conduct the Rice Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra in an exhilarating musical program titled “Fire and Ice,”featuring the work of Scriabin, Sibelius and Stravinsky.