CDC names Houston Health Department, Rice a wastewater epidemiology Center of Excellence
A system to track COVID-19 through Houston’s wastewater became the basis of an epidemiology center that has now earned special designation from the U.S. government and $1 million in its first year of federal funding.
Rice creates major in sport analytics to offer training in rapidly expanding field
Sport analytics, the subject of the hit movie “Moneyball” and the book of the same name , has transformed the way professional and college teams scout and evaluate potential players.
‘Awesome in every possible way’
To understand why Statistics’ Philip Ernst won this year’s George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Rice’s top teaching award, one need only read a few of the student comments in anonymous evaluations of his STAT 310 course.
US News grad school rankings give high marks to Rice programs
A total of 19 graduate programs at Rice University rank among the nation's top 25 in their categories in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
Black and Hispanic communities bore disproportionate share of Texas’ early COVID-19 deaths
Texas state officials did not publish the race and ages of COVID-19 victims in early 2020, but a county-level statistical analysis spearheaded by Rice University undergraduates in collaboration with university faculty has found deaths statewide were disproportionately concentrated in Black and Hispanic communities.
Rice’s Technology Development Fund backs faculty projects
Nine projects proposed by Rice researchers have been granted seed funding by Creative Ventures' Technology Development Fund.
‘Super trees’ may help save Houston … and beyond
Rice statisticians are part of a study sharing strategies to identify “super trees” for urban areas that help mitigate pollution, flooding and heat.
Audubon project wins D2K Showcase
Students whose computer vision system can classify birds by species and count them from the air won the Data to Knowledge Lab Showcase.
Rice cuts ribbon on Maxfield Hall
Renovation of the historic Mechanical Engineering building, now called Maxfield Hall is complete.
Six Rice-TMC research teams earn seed grants
Rice's Educational and Research Initiatives for Collaborative Health has announced six seed grants for research collaborations between faculty from Rice and the Texas Medical Center.
Students’ model could help avoid costly natural gas compressor shutdowns
A student project to predict the need for maintenance in natural gas compressors and avoid unexpected shutdowns has won this year’s Data to Knowledge Lab Showcase.
Marina Vannucci awarded Zellner Medal
Marina Vannucci, the Noah Harding Professor of Statistics at Rice, has been awarded the 2020 Zellner Medal from the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA).
Rice webinar showcases big data’s rise in sports and gambling
HOUSTON – (April 23, 2021) – The 9th Eubank Conference on Real World Markets at Rice University is taking a close look at how computational tools and big data are impacting sports and changing fan experiences through gambling.
Sports gambling conference eyes risks, rewards of legalization
Legal sports gambling will be analyzed at the Ninth Eubank Conference on Real World Markets at Rice.
Antibody study suggests COVID-19 infections underestimated
A monthslong study to determine the number of Houstonians carrying COVID-19 antibodies revealed infections may have been four times greater than viral tests showed, according to collaborators at the Houston Health Department, Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine.
