Rice News Archive - 2020

Student's socially distance dining.

Distance dining Aug. 24, 2020

With way more than six feet between you and your opponent, table tennis in the college commons was the ideal indoor social distance sport during O-Week.

Social distance sportsmanship Aug. 24, 2020

With way more than six feet between you and your opponent, table tennis in the college commons was the ideal indoor social distance sport during O-Week. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)

A photo and infographic of the RAMBO system

Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original Aug. 24, 2020

First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasers.

The new building joins the Shepherd School of Music’s Alice Pratt Brown Hall and the Brockman Hall for Opera as part of Rice’s arts district. (Photo by Brandon Martin/Rice University)

New building for visual and dramatic arts students and faculty at Rice to be named in honor of Fayez Sarofim Aug. 24, 2020

A new facility that will serve the needs of visual and dramatic arts students and faculty at Rice University is closer to being realized thanks to a generous lead gift from Houston businessman and philanthropist Fayez Sarofim.

An overview by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the location of the Nuugaatsiaq landslide (yellow star) relative to five broadband seismic stations (pink triangles) within 500 km of the landslide. Nuugaatsiaq (NUUG) was impacted by the resulting tsunami the reached a height of 300 feet at sea, though it was much lower before it reached the village. The inset shows the geometry of the fjords relative to the landslide and Nuugaatsiaq. (Source: USGS)

Small quake clusters can’t hide from AI Aug. 24, 2020

A deep learning algorithm developed at Rice University analyzes data from a deadly landslide in Greenland to show how it may someday predict seismic events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Graphic that says Official Update on COVID-19

Rice football game vs. Lamar canceled; volleyball and soccer move to spring Aug. 24, 2020

Rice and Lamar University have agreed to cancel their season-opening football game scheduled for Sept. 26 at Rice Stadium, and Conference USA has postponed the volleyball and soccer seasons to the spring.

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

Princeton Review: Rice has best quality of life in US Aug. 24, 2020

Rice rates among the top 20 in 16 different categories measured in the 2021 edition of the Princeton Review’s “The Best 386 Colleges,” a closely watched annual report on student reviews of the nation’s colleges and universities.

US and Chinese Currency with Glass globe on top

China’s economic slowdown may hurt global oil market, says Baker Institute expert Aug. 24, 2020

A slowdown in China’s demand for oil would profoundly affect the multitrillion-dollar global oil market along with many related industries, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

"Backward" Design Flow Chart

Remote control: CTE’s Adaptive Course Design Institute prepares professors for teaching online Aug. 23, 2020

Rice professors set it all aside this summer to learn all about the best new tools for teaching online.

Movie Night Poster

Rice Cinema film series screening outdoors, online this semester Aug. 21, 2020

VADA is hosting BYOChair movie nights during the fall 2020 semester.

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Dateline Rice for Aug. 21, 2020 Aug. 21, 2020

“Is This the End?” will be taught by Sophie Esch and Andrea Bajani.

'Is This the End?' Big Questions courses tackle truth, ethics and the apocalypse Aug. 21, 2020

Two new Humanities classes will explore questions for which there is no 'right' answer.

Architecture lecture poster fall 2020

Rice Architecture lecture series views race, social justice Aug. 21, 2020

Rice Architecture is charging ahead with a full slate of virtual lectures this fall with a theme of race, social justice and allyship.

Jackie McCauley in a photograph that was featured on the cover of the Houston Chronicle Sunday Magazine in 1965. © Houston Chronicle

Jackie McCauley, first Black woman admitted to Rice as undergrad, dies at 73 Aug. 20, 2020

Jacqueline Elizabeth “Jackie” McCauley, the first Black woman admitted to Rice, died Aug. 9 in Canberra, Australia, at 73.

Join us to commemorate the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, during which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream' speech to be revisited in Aug. 28 lecture by Walter Earl Fluker Aug. 20, 2020

In commemoration of the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) will host an Aug. 28 lecture via Zoom by renowned speaker Walter Earl Fluker.