When geopolitical conflicts disrupt fuel shipments, electricity demand outpaces infrastructure development or critical mineral shortages threaten indu...
The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC), headquartered at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, brought leading univ...
Adeline Thompson spent six weeks with her host family in Toulouse through Rice in France and came home seeing herself differently....
As early voting begins, new Rice research sheds light on why some members of one of Houston’s fastest-growing populations say they remain underreprese...
Nameless Sound musicians performed an original score on Nanibah Chacon’s interactive installation following Danza Azteca Macuilxochitl's activation of...
Rice’s James Tour recently published an improved method to recover antimony from this electronic waste stream. ...
Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with career awards, showcasin...
The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act....
The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to bring research to reality and...
The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice has launched CoachRICE: Team Coaching, a new professional education program designed to help coaches, mana...
Graduate student Sayuri Jayawardena has started a Rice chapter of Lifelong Learning with Friends. ...
Scholars, curators and filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto gather at Rice to explore Black histories from Renaissance Italy to medieval Africa and Islamic world...
People, papers and presentations October 5, 2020
Rice alumnae Elisa Arango, Susannah Dittmar, Lauren Payne and Sanika Rane are finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for their Universally Friendly Obturator, a customizable device developed at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen that simplifies radiation therapy for patients with cervical cancer.
Deep learning gives drug design a boost
A computational tool created at Rice University may help pharmaceutical companies expand their ability to investigate the safety of drugs.
Gemini South's high-def version of 'A Star is Born'
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is still more than a year from launching, but the Gemini South telescope in Chile has provided astronomers from Rice University and Dublin City University a glimpse of what the orbiting observatory should deliver.
Baker Institute, American Academy of Arts and Sciences: US innovation edge in peril
A sweeping new report urges significant policy and funding action to ensure the United States does not lose the preeminent position in discovery and innovation it has built since the end of World War II.
Musicians may need more than social distancing to stay safe on stage
Keeping musicians safe while they're on stage during the pandemic may require more than just social distancing, according to a study of exhaled aerosols conducted by Rice University engineers and musicians from Rice's Shepherd School of Music and the Houston Symphony.
Flu shots — including drive-up options — available on campus
Rice faculty and staff will have an opportunity to get a flu shot on campus starting this week.
New technology TA positions empower students to partner with professors
These student jobs are about more than just troubleshooting Zoom calls.
'Religion Unmuted' podcast elevates women’s voices in talks about religion, public life
Women are not well-represented in religious leadership positions or in public discussions of religion around the world — in spite of the fact that women are more religious than men, especially in the U.S.
The heat is on for building 3D artificial organ tissues
Bioengineers at Rice and the University of Washington are devising a hot new technology to remotely control the positioning and timing of cell functions to build 3D artificial, living tissues.
Humanities pauses admissions for Ph.D. programs
In response to challenges caused by COVID-19, Rice’s School of Humanities has paused admissions to all five of its Ph.D. programs — art history, English, history, philosophy and religion — for one year.
