IBB picks top posters by summer research undergrads
The Institute for BioSciences and Engineering holds its annual Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates symposium and poster competition.
For more than 30 years, the School Literacy and Culture program at Rice’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has been steadily transforming classr...
Rice's Andriy Nevidomskyy is part of a team that has mapped and explained a puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic ...
Schilke was one of 31 advocates to represent the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers on Hill Day....
A new report from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy compares the cost of receiving care at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Houston Methodist ...
In preparation for its August trip through Belgium and France, the team participated in two cultural workshops designed and led by School of Humanitie...
In low-resource settings, babies born with gastroschisis — a congenital condition in which the developing intestines extend outside the body through a...
In an impressive display of creativity, collaboration and global impact, undergraduate students from around the world gathered at Rice July 24 to pres...
Founded by Richard Tapia, the summer camps encourage students from all communities to pursue careers in STEM....
Rice saw 332 student-athletes be named to the American Conference All-Academic Team, conference commissioner Tim Pernetti announced Wednesday morning....
Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences....
A study led by Xu Zhang, Marimikel Charrier and Caroline Ajo-Franklin demonstrates an innovative method for the real-time, on-site detection of arseni...
Deep in the heart of Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains, a trio of Rice researchers embarked on an ambitious summer field study to understand how human imp...
Team led by Rice’s Saltz wins grant to examine environment’s impact on fruit flies
Rice University researcher Julia Saltz and two co-principal investigators have received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate and model the underlying factors of genetic variation in trait development in fruit flies across environments and over generations.
People, papers and presentations for Aug. 8, 2022
Alyssa Cahoy, a senior Health Sciences student in the Department of Kinesiology, won the Morehouse College Project Imhotep Public Health Leadership Award during her summer internship at the Atlanta program.
Reversing decline in college enrollment hinges on labor market, says Baker Institute expert
When and if enrollment levels rebound depends mainly on the strength of the labor market, which hinges on the economy’s response to Federal Reserve interest rate hikes designed to combat inflation, argues Joyce Beebe, fellow in public finance at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, in a recent blog post.
CDC names Houston Health Department, Rice a wastewater epidemiology Center of Excellence
A system to track COVID-19 through Houston’s wastewater became the basis of an epidemiology center that has now earned special designation from the U.S. government and $1 million in its first year of federal funding.
Water can’t touch this sanded, powdered surface
Rice scientists and engineers develop a one-step method involving sandpaper and powder to make robust superhydrophobic materials.
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator announces Class 2 startups
The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator’s second annual class will put a spotlight on 17 early- to mid-stage startups that collectively have already raised more than $54.5 million.
Rice lab’s ‘drug factory’ implants cleared for human trials
Federal regulators have approved the first human clinical trial of cancer-killing “drug factory” implants created by Rice bioengineers.
Cherukuri named Rice University’s first vice president for innovation
Paul Cherukuri, the executive director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, has been named Rice University’s first vice president for innovation.
Most but not all Texas coaches say they’ll plan for climate change
A survey of Texas college and high school coaches, trainers and athletic directors suggests many are not taking climate change into account as they plan their programs’ futures.