Rice Business online MBA program earns high marks in its first year Dec. 8, 2020
Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business placed in the top 10 of five categories in The Princeton Review's latest rankings of the Best Business Schools for 2021, including the No. 6 spot for its newest program, MBA@Rice.
Vitamin boosts essential synthetic chemistry Dec. 8, 2020
Inspired by light-sensing bacteria that thrive near hot oceanic vents, synthetic chemists use vitamin B12 to catalyze valuable hydrocarbons known as olefins, or alkenes, useful precursor molecules for the manufacture of drugs and agrochemicals.
'Pink tax' hurts female consumers, but electing more women combats it Dec. 8, 2020
HOUSTON – (Dec. 8, 2020) – The wage gap between men and women is no secret, but another form of gender discrimination directly and disproportionately affects women worldwide: the "pink tax" imposed by import tariffs that target female products.
Dateline Rice for Dec. 8, 2020 Dec. 8, 2020
Forget the deficit for now. We have to spend our way out of this pandemic Two articles about federal spending during the pandemic cite recent research by Jorge Barro, fellow in public finance at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Can gender inequality kill? Paper looks at impact among older Indian women Dec. 7, 2020
HOUSTON – (Dec. 7, 2020) – Indian women past childbearing age are dying at a higher rate than those in other countries because of poverty and limited access to resources such as food and health care, according to a study from Rice University.
Task Force hosts conversation with Rice’s first Black student, Raymond Johnson Dec. 7, 2020
Johnson’s discussion was the third “Black at Rice” webinar convened this semester to offer dialogue on the Black student experience.
Rice learns from its history in weekly podcast from Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice Dec. 7, 2020
“Doc Talks” podcast sheds light on new research and other behind-the-scenes work done by Rice historians and students alike.
Owls claim first football victory over ranked foe since 1997 Dec. 7, 2020
Naeem Smith's 36-yard touchdown return on one of Rice's five interceptions helped the Owls defeat 15th-ranked Marshall University 20-0 Saturday for the football program's first victory over a Top 25 opponent in more than two decades.
Scientists get the lowdown on sun’s super-hot atmosphere Dec. 7, 2020
Images of the sun captured by the IRIS mission show new details of how low-lying loops of plasma are energized, and may also reveal how the hot corona is created.
People, papers and presentations Dec 7,2020 Dec. 7, 2020
Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of computer science, is co-author of the introduction to “The Science of Deep Learning,” a special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
House vote to decriminalize marijuana reflects the will of the American public, says Baker Institute expert Dec. 4, 2020
HOUSTON – (Dec. 4, 2020) – The U.S. House of Representatives today approved legislation that would decriminalize marijuana and seek to "address the devastating injustices caused by the war on drugs." Katharine Neill Harris, the Alfred C. Glassell III Fellow in Drug Policy at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, is available to discuss the so-called MORE Act with the news media.
Hidden structure found in essential metabolic machinery Dec. 4, 2020
Rice University biochemists have discovered membrane-divided subcompartments within organelles called peroxisomes, essential pieces of metabolic machinery for all higher order life from yeast to humans. The research appears this week in Nature Communications.
Dateline Rice for Dec. 4, 2020 Dec. 4, 2020
US women in combat: Will equality affect national security? An article cites collaborative Rice research into how women in combat may have broader implications for women’s equality. Co-author Connor Huff, assistant professor of political science, is quoted.
Rice physicist shares grant to advance imaging Dec. 3, 2020
The lab of physicist Junichiro Kono will share in a $1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve imaging of proteins, cells and tissues.
Chemists get peek at novel fluorescence Dec. 3, 2020
Rice chemists find a second level of fluorescence in single-walled carbon nanotubes. The phenomenon may be useful in solar energy and optoelectronic applications.
