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Amitav Ghosh was the featured speaker at the 2021 Campbell Lecture Series. (Photos by Aidan Gerber)

Amitav Ghosh on the dangerous delusions that created our climate crisis

The renowned novelist explored the global legacy of colonial attitudes and aggression during the two-night Campbell Lecture Series.

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Grant backs effort to build useful bacterial colonies

Rice scientists have won a grant to advance the development of custom-designed microbial colonies for a variety of applications.

Rice Architecture Lecture Series

Rice Architecture Lectures pose questions of identity

Rice physicists teamed with colleagues at Europe's Large Hadron Collider to study matter-generating collisions of light. Researchers showed the departure angle of debris from the smashups is subtly distorted by quantum interference patterns in the light prior to impact. Illustration by 123rf.com

Physicists probe light smashups to guide future research

An illustration based on simulations by Rice University engineers shows a gadolinium ion (blue) in water (red and white), with inner-sphere water -- the water most affected by the gadolinium -- highlighted. The researchers’ models of gadolinium in water show there’s room for improvement in compounds used as contrast agents in clinical magnetic resonance imaging. (Credit: Illustration by Arjun Valiya Parambathu)

Modern simulations could improve MRIs

Rice University engineers improve simulations that analyze gadolinium-based contrast agents used in clinical magnetic resonance imaging. More efficient simulations could help make better compounds for imaging technologies.

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Houston ISD students struggle to manage stress, new research shows

An electron microscope image shows intact Escherichia coli bacteria at top and E. coli leaking chromosomes (green) after disruption by an antimicrobial peptide at bottom. New models by Rice University scientists have determined peptides that invade bacteria and do their damage from the inside are underrated. Source: Wikipedia

For some peptides, killing bacteria an inside job

Rice scientists study the dynamics of the immune system’s antimicrobial peptides, which attack and eliminate harmful bacteria. They find peptides that invade bacteria and do their damage from the inside are underrated.

Shirazeh Houshiary's sculpture “Seif” was installed last week on the lawn outside the new Sid Richardson College. (Photos by Brandon Martin)

Rice’s latest piece of public art, 'Seif,' lights up campus

Shirazeh Houshiary’s glass helix sculpture draws attention day and night.

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Experts will educate public at Sept. 20 teach-in on Texas abortion law, reproductive rights

Rice hosts Leah Litman, Melaney Linton, Wendy Davis and more in response to Texas abortion ban via Zoom webinar.

The new Department of Transnational Asian Studies will be housed on the fifth floor of Lovett Hall. (Photo by Brandon Martin)

Rice among nation’s top 20 universities in US News rankings

HOUSTON – (Sept. 13, 2021) – Rice is named one of the nation’s top 20 universities in the 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook.

Skylines of San Antonio, Dallas and Houston

Deep in the heart of the 'Texas Triangle,' a global powerhouse emerges

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Dashboard displays troubling trend of unexplained deaths

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

The North Atlantic network of sites that preserve records of hurricanes stretches along the coast from Canada to Central America, but with significant gaps. A new study led by scientists at Rice University shows filling those gaps with data from the mid-Atlantic states will help improve the historical record of storms over the past several thousand years and could aid in predictions of future storms in a time of climate change. Illustration by Elizabeth Wallace

Nature’s archive reveals Atlantic tempests through time

Rice scientists uncover how natural archives can record Atlantic hurricane frequency over the past 1,000 years. SUMMARY: Rice University scientists uncover how natural archives can record Atlantic hurricane frequency over the past 1,000 years. More data is needed to help model how climate change will affect storms in the future.

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Rice announces new faculty funding opportunities

Rice's Office of Research launches three Creative Ventures Funds to seed faculty initiatives and guide them towards commercialization.

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Cristina Rivera Garza talks medicine, language and bodies in Sept. 22 lecture

The 'Genius Grant' winner and fiction writer will read from her work in English and Spanish.