Mark Ditman receives inaugural Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement
Mark Ditman, a longtime Rice employee who retired June 30 after nearly 29 years of service, is the inaugural recipient of the Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement.
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music presents Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ Nov. 3, 5
Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music will present Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. at the Morrison Theater at Brockman Hall for Opera . The romantic work is helmed by director Paul Curran with conductor Stephanie Rhodes Russell and the Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra under the tutelage of Joshua Winograde, director of opera studies.
Breakthrough synthesis method improves solar cell stability
A process developed by Rice engineers and collaborators yields 2D halide perovskite crystal layers of ideal thickness and purity through dynamic control of the crystallization process ⎯ a key step toward ensuring device stability for optoelectronics and photovoltaics.
Rice University’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders names new director
Bernard “Bernie” Banks will join Rice University’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders as its director, effective Jan. 1.
Rice’s Naomi Halas wins Mildred Dresselhaus Prize
Naomi Halas, a pioneering researcher in the fields of nanophotonics and plasmonics at Rice University, has been awarded the 2024 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize for Nanoscience/Nanomaterials from the American Physical Society.
Rice’s Gustavo Scuseria wins Aneesur Rahman Prize
Pioneering computational chemist Gustavo Scuseria has won the 2024 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.
Rice hosts distributed computing, machine learning colloquium
Rice hosted the Texas Colloquium on Distributed Learning, a two-day summit of talks on distributed computing and large-scale machine learning held at the new Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science.
Rice researcher scans tropical forest with mixed-reality device
Rice University scientists incorporated a Microsoft HoloLens mixed-reality headset with custom-built open-source software to record and store mammal habitat data in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park in Tanzania, showing that there was greater biodiversity where more vegetation was measured.
Rice helping study how soil health improvement can boost crops
America’s farmers rely on a host of practices such as cover cropping and crop rotation to maintain soil health, grow more productive crops and feed the U.S. and countries around the world. However, current research is too sparse to precisely demonstrate how these practices can actually affect the yields and bottom line for farmers.
Decontamination method zaps pollutants from soil
A rapid, high-heat electrothermal soil remediation process developed by Rice scientists and collaborators at the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center flushes out both organic pollutants and heavy metals in seconds without damaging soil fertility.
Sherwin K. Bryant named director of Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies
Sherwin K. Bryant, a leading scholar of slavery, race and the early modern African diaspora, will join Rice University Jan. 1 as director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) and an associate professor in the Department of History.
Rice University welcomes US Navy research official on campus visit
Rice University welcomed Brett Seidle, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development, test and engineering, on a campus visit Oct.13.
Tunes on wheels: Rice Shepherd School bringing free music to community via The Concert Truck
Classical music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music is coming to several locations around Houston Oct. 24 and 26 thanks to a fully functioning mobile concert hall called The Concert Truck.
Rice, Houston Methodist showcase new Center for Human Performance at kickoff event
Rice and Houston Methodist unveiled the Houston Methodist-Rice University Center for Human Performance during a kickoff event Oct. 10.
Rice Shepherd School’s James McCarthy named 2024 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow
James McCarthy, a graduate student in voice at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music , has been named a recipient of the 2024 San Francisco Opera (SFO) Adler Fellowship.
