It's lights, camera, gavel for Cinema and Media Studies minors Dec. 14, 2020
New course will explore the American courtroom drama.
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Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors Dec. 14, 2020
Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
People, papers and presentations Dec 14, 2021 Dec. 14, 2020
Marina Vannucci, the Noah Harding Professor of Statistics, is a co-author on a primer on "Bayesian Statistics and Modeling" that will be published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers.
Drop in activity along border could cost Texas billions, says Baker Institute expert Dec. 14, 2020
The reduction in mobility along the Texas-Mexico border caused by COVID-19 will hurt the state's economy as a whole, according to new research from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Dateline Rice for Dec. 11, 2020 Dec. 11, 2020
Peer-led punishment for flouting pandemic rules An article mentions that Rice established a student-run COVID Community Court to adjudicate public health violations on campus. McMurtry College junior Melody Xiao and Emily Garza, director of student judicial programs, are quoted. Inside Higher Ed
Top Rice data science team shows heart in plan to save babies Dec. 11, 2020
Winning Data to Knowledge Lab project uses data science techniques to help save babies with congenital heart defects.
Bad news for fake news: Rice research helps combat social media misinformation Dec. 10, 2020
Improved use of machine learning can double throughput of real-time information filters, Rice researchers find.
Dateline Rice for Dec. 10, 2020 Dec. 10, 2020
Will Americans take the COVID-19 vaccine? Utpal Dholakia, the George R. Brown Professor of Marketing at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, authored three articles in Psychology Today. Psychology Today
Rice's Pumani hailed for reaching 1 million babies Dec. 10, 2020
Rice global health institute's low-cost, neonatal CPAP joins Global Innovation Exchange's Million Lives Club.
Religious discrimination particularly high for Jews and Muslims, study shows Dec. 9, 2020
HOUSTON – (Dec. 9, 2020) – Although people of all faiths report growing religious discrimination during the past few years, the phenomenon is most common among Jews and Muslims, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University and West Virginia University (WVU). In addition, Jews and Muslims are much more likely to become victims of violence because of their religious beliefs.
Texas lawmakers see vaccine legislation as nonpartisan Dec. 9, 2020
Vaccine-related legislation should be promoted as nonpartisan, new research suggests, and most Texas lawmakers agree despite a vocal anti-vaccine movement.
Dateline Rice for Dec. 9, 2020 Dec. 9, 2020
Jupiter and Saturn will come within 0.1 degrees of each other, forming the first visible 'double planet' in 800 years Patrick Hartigan, professor of physics and astronomy, is quoted in an article and radio broadcast about the Dec. 21 event in which Jupiter and Saturn will appear so close to each other in the sky they will look like a “double planet” for the first time since the Middle Ages.
Sabharwal elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors Dec. 8, 2020
Ashutosh Sabharwal, the Ernest Dell Butcher Professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering and a pioneer in two areas of wireless and health technologies has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
US must ‘hold the line’ against China’s revisionist actions, says Baker Institute expert Dec. 8, 2020
The United States government should accept greater strategic risk to “hold the line” against the revisionist measures of the Chinese government, according to new research from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice to admit fans for football home finale Dec. 8, 2020
A limited number of fans will be admitted to the Rice football team's final home game of the season Dec. 12 against the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the university has announced.
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