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COVID-19 forced RURS to move its symposium and awards ceremony online in just a few short weeks.

Posters, oral presentations pivot online for Undergraduate Research Symposium

May 20, 2020

Rice’s Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS) is the big yearly event for students across disciplines to showcase their research projects and receive recognition for their work.

President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress asking for $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey. This speech became known as the "Truman Doctrine" speech.

America’s 'Forever Empire' in Middle East chronicled by Citino

May 15, 2020

Award from Truman Library Institute will fund history professor’s ongoing research for upcoming book

Shree Kale walks by Lovett Hall

Unconventional students at Rice: Shree Kale turns uncertainty into opportunity

May 13, 2020

The New Jersey native and his dad decided to stick around to check out the campus. That’s when he received an email from the Rice School of Architecture dean offering to show him and other students around the school. 

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Rice grads win 10 Fulbright grants

May 8, 2020

The university celebrates one of its largest-ever cohorts of Fulbright Scholars this year.

Mask transposed over a model fo the corona virus

COVID-19 research funds back six new initiatives

May 8, 2020

Grants to Rice faculty will support diagnostic, environmental and social projects.

A new book from Rice history professor Caleb McDaniel presents the previously little-known story of Henrietta Wood. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow)

Rice history professor wins Pulitzer Prize

May 4, 2020

Caleb McDaniel’s 'Sweet Taste of Liberty' tells true story of slavery and restitution in America.

Humanities offerings this summer include courses in medical humanities, philosophy, religion, American literature, European and U.S. history, history of art and foreign languages.

Humanities courses for summer 2020 help make sense of changing world

May 1, 2020

Nearly 50 online courses are available at significant discount for Rice students and the general public.

Students in Jayoung Song's first-year Korean class show notes of encouragement to their video pen pals in South Korea.

In this together: Rice students, Korean kids forge mutually beneficial bonds 

April 24, 2020

Before the pandemic hit, Jayoung Song was planning to take the students in her first-year Korean language class on a series of immersive trips to some of Houston’s Korean restaurants and grocery stores. And Will Rice freshman Diego Lopez-Bernal was eagerly awaiting the first outing, because trying Korean food last year was one of the things that got him interested in learning the language in the first place.

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Graduating Mellon Mays fellows grateful for opportunity — and the Rice mentors who helped

April 24, 2020

Increasing diversity in the faculties of colleges and universities across the U.S. is the mission of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program, which has helped fund the doctoral dreams of over 5,000 students at 48 member schools since 1986.

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Esch considers animals in wartime for second book, funded by NEH stipend

April 17, 2020

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Unconventional students: Emma Reford pirouettes while pre-med

April 13, 2020

As part of its coordinated effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Rice University has established a research accelerator fund to support research projects intended to help end and recover from the global crisis. (Credit: Illustration by Arie Wilson Passwaters)

Rice establishes COVID-19 research fund, offers nearby hospitals housing on campus for health care workers

April 6, 2020

As part of a coordinated effort to combat COVID-19, Rice University has established a research accelerator fund to support projects intended to help end the pandemic and prepare for similar outbreaks in the future.

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Rice researchers create interactive map of COVID-19 cases in Texas

April 6, 2020

A team of researchers in the Center for Research Computing’s Spatial Studies Lab at Rice University has created an interactive map showing all cases of COVID-19 across Texas utilizing public health data. The map is now online at coronavirusintexas.org.

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Rice U. experts available to discuss COVID-19's wide-ranging impact

March 23, 2020

HOUSTON – (March 23, 2020) – As the COVID-19 pandemic grows and impacts the lives of people across the globe, Rice University experts are available to discuss various topics related to the disease. 

Kirsten Ostherr

Rice prof’s book on ‘globalization and contagion’ now open-access 

March 16, 2020

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