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Ruth López Turley named next director of Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research

December 1, 2021

HOUSTON – (Dec. 1, 2021) – Ruth López Turley, a prolific education researcher, professor of sociology and director of Rice University's Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), has been selected as the next director of the university's Kinder Institute for Urban Research after current director Bill Fulton steps down June 30, 2022.

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Welch Institute names Sir Anthony Cheetham, Kristin Persson to Scientific Advisory Board

November 29, 2021

The Welch Institute for Advanced Materials names Sir Anthony Cheetham and Professor Kristin Persson to its Scientific Advisory Board.

illustration showing what the TRAPPIST-1 system might look like

Orbital harmony limits late arrival of water on TRAPPIST-1 planets

November 25, 2021

Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 in near-perfect harmony, and U.S. and European researchers have used that harmony to determine how much physical abuse the planets could have withstood in their infancy.

Rosana Paulino, A permanência das estructuras (The Permanence of Structures), 2017, digital print on textile, cutout, and sewing. Courtesy the artist and MASP São Paulo.

‘Bound Away’ conference bringing new research on slave voyages

November 22, 2021

Art exhibitions at Moody, MFAH will contextualize research presented Dec. 3-4

A two-dimensional coat of a perovskite compound is the basis for an efficient solar cell that might stand up to environmental wear and tear

Ultrathin solar cells get a boost

November 22, 2021

Rice University engineers boost the efficiency while retaining the toughness of solar cells made of two-dimensional perovskites.

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‘Double House’ wins city honors for Rice Architecture students

November 22, 2021

Two Rice Architecture students win a City of Houston competition to design an accessory dwelling unit with plans freely available to the public.

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AI technology no silver bullet for hiring the best employees, says new Rice research

November 22, 2021

Artificial intelligence technology is now used by a growing number of companies looking to hire the best employees, but new research from Rice University warns how it can incorporate biases and overlook important characteristics among job applicants.

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Menorah ceremony brings Hanukkah lights to campus Nov. 29

November 19, 2021

President Leebron will once again light the menorah to celebrate the festival

Pedro Alvarez and Tony Mikos

Alvarez, Mikos elected to Chinese Academy of Engineering

November 19, 2021

Pedro Alvarez and Antonios Mikos have been elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Rice University physicist Guido Pagano is part of a team that reported in Nature the first evidence of many-body localization of particles without disorder. The phenomenon, which has relevance for quantum computing, involves removing disorder from a chain of particles to create a gradient that preserves the particles’ memory of their initial state.

Rice prof’s Nature paper details unique quantum phenomenon

November 18, 2021

Rice physicist Guido Pagano is part of a team reporting in Nature on the discovery of a new phenomenon in quantum systems.

Rice University computer scientist Ashumali Shrivastava and graduate student Ben Coleman

Big data privacy for machine learning just got 100 times cheaper

November 16, 2021

Rice University computer scientists have discovered an inexpensive way for tech companies to implement a rigorous form of personal data privacy when using or sharing large databases for machine learning.

Photo credit: Kinder Institute

Houston must take steps now to preserve affordable housing for future, report says

November 16, 2021

Houston’s supply of affordable housing is on the decline, and a new report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research says the city must take advantage of community, state and federal support to reverse the trend.

Sarofim Hall

Rice’s new arts building will be Sarofim Hall, designed by internationally acclaimed firm

November 15, 2021

Architecture team led by Rice alumnus will create new gateway to campus

A sample of noscapine, which Rice University researchers used as a precursor in their synthesis of setigerumine I.

Rice lab first to mimic molecule found in poppies

November 15, 2021

A Rice undergraduate leads the discovery of a way to synthesize a rare molecule drawn from poppies.

Prions, aggregates implicated in neurological diseases, may also have an important function in helping regulate the transcription of messenger RNA in memory formation.

Prions may channel RNA’s messages

November 15, 2021

Prions, aggregates implicated in neurological diseases, may also have an important function in helping regulate the transcription of messenger RNA in memory formation.

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