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As an undergraduate student, Amy Kahrmann Huseby remembers reading articles in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and being “overawed by the know...
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A group of undergraduate students and faculty from Brazil spent a week at Rice exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in sustainability an...
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Students taking 3-week courses in venue management, professional sports business...
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Rice hosted students in grades 6-12 for the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies’ annual Creative Writing Camp this summer, providing you...
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Former Rice student athlete and U.S. Olympian Funmi Jimoh talks about her experiences in the 2008 Olympics....
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Rice’s Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies recently hosted its graduate student resource fair at the BioScience Research Collaborative to intr...
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A new study from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy reveals that CEO salaries for nonprofit hospitals and health care systems increased signific...
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Scientists at Rice, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, are making headway in addressing per- and polyfluoro...
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‘Culture of care’: Rice recovering after Hurricane Beryl
Before, during and after Hurricane Beryl blew through Houston July 8, several Rice University departments went above and beyond to keep students, faculty and staff safe, fed and housed.
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Rice lab develops smallest free-floating bubbles for medical imaging
Bioengineering researchers at Rice have developed ultrasmall, stable, gas-filled protein nanostructures that could revolutionize ultrasound imaging and drug delivery for cancers and infectious diseases.
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SSPEED Center, Rice Engineering to launch nature-based carbon credit research projects
The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center and the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice have announced plans to launch two research projects on nature-based carbon credits funded through a gift from Emissions Reduction Corp.
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300 Rice athletes earn AAC All-Academic honors
A conference-leading 300 Rice student-athletes earned AAC All-Academic honors in Rice Athletics’ debut season in the American Athletic Conference.
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YingHua He, an associate professor of economics at Rice University, died earlier this month at the age of 44 after fighting a quickly spreading cancer.
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Rice professor’s memoir secures spot in NYT’s ‘100 Best Books of the 21st Century’
“I found out with everyone else,” said Kiese Laymon, the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English.
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Free summer program at Rice focuses on environmental justice for Houston students
The weeklong experience hosted on Rice’s campus focuses on environmental justice through storytelling via arts and media practices.
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Paris bound: Gunnarsdottir to compete for Icelandic Olympic team
Rice women’s track and field alumna Erna Gunnarsdottir is headed to Paris, France, to represent Iceland in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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Rice engineers’ probe could help advance treatment for spinal cord disease, injury
Rice neuroscientists have used a nanosized sensor to record spinal cord neurons in free-moving mice, a feat that could lead to the development of better treatments for spinal cord disease and injury.
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Researchers discover ancient chromosomes in 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth
Researchers have discovered fossils of ancient chromosomes preserved in the remains of a woolly mammoth that died 52,000 years ago.