Rice At Large, the quarterly newsletter that showcases Rice’s outreach programs, is now available online....
The Center for Innovation and Translation of Point of Care Technologies for Equitable Cancer Care has announced its inaugural group of subawardees....
Peter Mieszkowski, professor emeritus of economics and the former Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Economics and Finance at Rice, passed away...
Rice extends a heartfelt thank you to Hannes Hofer, who is retiring from the institution after more than 40 years of service to the community. ...
Researchers at Rice, in collaboration with Guangdong University of Technology, have uncovered an innovative approach to treating high-salinity organic...
The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice will host “Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice,” an exhibition that highlights the intersection of envi...
Economist Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business and the Virani Undergraduate School of Business at Rice, has been appointed t...
New research by Rice physicists shows the possibility for particles that are neither bosons nor fermions....
Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts announces its spring 2025 programming schedule featuring artists, activists and scholars exploring the links between ...
During the fall 2024 semester, Camille Neal-Harris started her Tuesdays much like any other Rice student, but reaching the finish line likely felt a b...
The Rice community mourns the passing of Peter Vail, the W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography, who passed away Dec. 28, 2024, at the ag...
Rice’s Police Department partnered with the Children’s Assessment Center to sponsor 14 families for its 12th annual Blue Santa Toy Drive. All donated ...
New enzyme could aid anticancer drug development
June 27, 2023
Retracing nature’s steps, Rice University engineer Xue Gao and her team mapped out the full series of enzyme-powered reactions a marine fungus uses to produce a complex molecule with anticancer properties. In the process, the Gao lab uncovered the first fungal enzyme of its kind known to break an amide bond.
People, papers and presentations for June 26, 2023
June 26, 2023
Fred Oswald, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Psychology in Rice University’s School of Social Sciences, is a member of The National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee.
Rice caps off monthlong festivities at annual Pride parade
June 26, 2023
Dozens of members of the Rice community hit the streets of downtown Houston June 24 to walk in the city’s 45th annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade.
Juneteenth events examine Black leadership and ideas central to the holiday
June 26, 2023
Rice honored Juneteenth with a discussion series on June 15 to discuss issues of race, racism and injustice. Author Annette Gordon-Reed joined audiences June 20 to discuss her book “On Juneteenth,” which recounts the holiday’s origins and the complex history of Black Texans before, during and after the rise of chattel slavery in the state.
Houston high-schoolers get environmental boot camp
June 26, 2023
Rice University’s Center for Environmental Studies, in partnership with the Houston Climate Justice Museum, hosted students from the Houston Independent School District the week of June 12 as part of a summer program focused on Houston environmental justice.
June 26, 2023
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought renewed focus on the use of energy resources as geopolitical “weapons.” But the respective experiences for oil and natural gas in the past year — Russia’s two main energy exports and the leading energy sources for Europe and the U.S. — provide strategic lessons for policymakers, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Study finds human impact on wildlife even in protected areas
June 25, 2023
The largest long-term standardized camera-trap survey to date finds that human activity impacts tropical mammals living in protected areas and sheds light on how different species are affected based on their habitat needs and anthropogenic stressors.
Researchers give robots new options for arrangements
June 23, 2023
Rice computer scientists have expanded the options robots have for rearranging objects with a new algorithm that allows them to switch between complementary skills like grabbing and placing individual objects or pushing and sliding entire groups.
Kyrillidis wins grant to address AI’s ‘catastrophic forgetting’
June 23, 2023
Rice computer scientist Anastasios Kyrillidis has won a Microsoft Research Award to find ways to overcome the problem of “catastrophic forgetting” during the training of artificial intelligence.
Simpson-Sullivan, Slinkman named C-USA Field Athletes of the Year
June 23, 2023
Rice track and field athletes Tara Simpson-Sullivan and Alexander Slinkman were recently named Conference USA Female and Male Athletes of the Year, respectively.