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Howe wins Berlin Prize, will complete fellowship next year

May 26, 2022

Cymene Howe, a professor of anthropology at Rice University and director of graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology, has been named a Berlin Prize fellow by the American Academy in Berlin.

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

Study of ancient predators sheds light on how humans did – or didn’t – find food

May 2, 2022

A new Rice University-led analysis of the remains of ancient predators reveals new information about how prehistoric humans did – or didn’t – find their food.

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NSF-backed project to examine ‘electrifying everything’ in Houston, LA

April 25, 2022

A new National Science Foundation-funded study from a Rice University anthropologist will explore how two of the nation’s largest cities are embracing an electric future.

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Rice experts available to discuss how alternative energy can ease foreign oil dependence

March 17, 2022

Amid Russia's war on Ukraine, Rice University experts are available to discuss how alternative energy sources could ease the United States' dependence on foreign oil.

Photo credit: Jacob Davis.

Ancient DNA reveals surprises about how early Africans lived, traveled and interacted

February 23, 2022

A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a fascinating tale of how early humans lived, traveled and even found their significant others.

Plantation House at Varner-Hogg Plantation. Photo courtesy of Texas Historical Commission.

Rice archaeologists’ new video series gives inside look at historic plantation site

February 21, 2022

A team of Rice University students, faculty and staff at the Varner-Hogg Plantation Historic Site are in the midst of project to study newly discovered and long forgotten artifacts of slavery.

Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe.

'Cultures of Energy' podcast returns on Groundhog Day

January 26, 2022

The "Cultures of Energy" podcast, hosted by Rice University anthropologists Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe, returns Feb. 2 with the first of 10 new episodes after a more than two-year hiatus.

Robert Michael Franklin, Jr. is President-Emeritus of Morehouse College in Atlanta

CAAAS lectures call for moral leadership in turbulent times

January 10, 2022

Robert Michael Franklin Jr., Marla Frederick, Lerone Martin and others to speak this semester at Rice

Undergrads share research on Texas slave trade

Undergrads share research on Texas slave trade

December 6, 2021

Rice undergraduates presented alongside historians and experts on the intra-American slave trade at the “Bound Away” conference Dec. 3-4

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The ethics of studying ancient DNA: Rice scholar helps craft global guidelines

October 20, 2021

Geneticists and archaeologists studying ancient DNA should engage with stakeholders in the places where they conduct research, minimize damage to human remains and share their data, according to new guidelines outlined in a paper co-authored by a Rice University anthropologist and published today in Nature.

Sophie Esch discusses her new book project at a recent ISLA colloquium.

Initiative for the Study of LatinX America expands Latin American scholarship at Rice

October 11, 2021

ISLA seeks to position Rice on the cutting edge of contemporary studies and research

Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe with the composer of "OK, Goodbye."

Former glacier inspires orchestral work

October 5, 2021

Okjökull first made international headlines when Rice anthropologists organized the first memorial service for a glacier lost to climate change.

Mary Prendergast stands near the William L. McClure faunal collection in the Department of Anthropology's archaeology lab.

Old bones get new life in renovated Rice laboratory

September 27, 2021

The skeletons of more than 800 Southeast Texas animals are getting a second life in a renovated archaeology lab space at Rice University.

Chengzu Ou was the first grad student to borrow the new "starter kits" from the loan closet this year.

Graduate Student Loan Closet reopens, restocked and revamped

September 8, 2021

The ‘incredible resource’ for three decades of Owls had to shut down during the pandemic.

Rachel Kimbro

Rice sociologist Rachel Tolbert Kimbro named dean of School of Social Sciences

July 1, 2021

HOUSTON – (March 24, 2021) – Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, an award-winning educator and prolific researcher in the field of children's health, has been named the newest dean of Rice University's School of Social Sciences effective July 1.

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