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Rice students build interactive platform to track carbon capture risks in Texas

February 11, 2025

The website functions like a digital museum exhibit, offering story maps, GIS map visualizations and advocacy tools to help communities understand and respond to potential environmental risks.

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Rice’s Center for Research Computing receives top award for data visualization for SlaveVoyages

August 31, 2023

John Mulligan, a humanities computing researcher and facilitator in Rice University’s Center for Research Computing (CRC), was awarded first place in the data visualization category at the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference for work with Rice’s SlaveVoyages.

graphic describing the Southern Annular Mode's impacts on Australian weather in winter

Order in chaos: Atmosphere’s Antarctic oscillation has natural cycle

June 6, 2023

Rice researchers have discovered a natural cycle that repeats every 150 days in the north-south oscillation of the Southern Hemisphere’s prevailing westerly winds.

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Physicists discover ‘stacked pancakes of liquid magnetism’

May 10, 2023

Physicists from Rice and Ames National Laboratory have discovered “stacked pancakes of liquid magnetism” in layered helical magnetic materials.

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People, papers and presentations for Jan. 23, 2023

January 23, 2023

Evelyn Tang, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and a member of Rice University’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, is one of 17 early-career researchers to receive a $50,000 award in the inaugural year of the Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition initiative, which will begin with a conference Oct. 12-15 in Tucson, Arizona.

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Research on televised opera, slave voyages honored with National Endowment for the Humanities grants

January 17, 2023

A Rice University musicologist and history professor are among the recipients of 2023 grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for their research projects on televised opera and tracking historical slave trading voyages.

Rice and UT chemists study nanohybrids

​​​​​​​More links aren’t necessarily better for hybrid nanomaterials

January 4, 2023

Chemists from Rice and the University of Texas have found more isn’t always better when it comes to packing charge acceptors atop nanocrystals.

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Research computing veteran Melissa Cragin joins Rice

November 8, 2022

Melissa Cragin, a veteran of both the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is now leading Rice's Center for Research Computing as Rice's associate vice president of research computing.

An illustration defines what differentiates single-nucleotide variants (iSNVs) within a single host from single nucleotide polymorphisms that spread from host to host.

COVID-19 variants can’t hide from Variabel

March 14, 2022

Rice computer scientists introduce Variabel, which uses sequencing data to identify “low-frequency variants” of SARS-CoV-2 in public data sets. The program has also been tested on data from patients with Ebola and norovirus.

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imagineRio allows users to visualize five centuries of change in a modern megacity

February 7, 2022

Major rebuild to the Rice site adds 3,000 photos, new tools for teaching, learning

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Dashboard displays troubling trend of unexplained deaths

September 7, 2021

‘Slow-burning background crisis’ revealed in new work by Rice humanities researcher John Mulligan.

Lan Li's medical humanities workshop and coding crash course created a pulse-inspired art exhibition at Rice’s Solar Studios

A heartbeat away

June 8, 2021

How a medical humanities workshop and coding crash course created a pulse-inspired art exhibition at Rice’s Solar Studios.

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World’s largest database on history of slave trade now housed at Rice

May 24, 2021

SlaveVoyages.org is the result of years of research, reengineered for the future by Rice and a newly formed consortium.

Race and Anti-Racism Research Fund

Rice backs studies of race, anti-racism

September 16, 2020

The Race and Anti-Racism Research Fund at Rice University has awarded grants to eight professors to develop better understanding of how race, racism and racial injustice affect society.

Hurricane Harvey as seen from the International Space Station on Aug. 28, 2017. (Photo courtesy of Randy Bresnik/NASA)

Future Texas hurricanes: Fast like Ike or slow like Harvey?

July 6, 2020

Climate change will make fast-moving storms more likely in late 21st-century Texas.

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