Systems librarian Sun honored with Fondren’s Shapiro Award Jul. 24, 2020
The award honors members of the Fondren staff who have developed innovative library services programs or shown exemplary service to the Rice community
Rice News Archive - 2020
How to stop the next pandemic: Reduce wildlife trafficking and forest loss Jul. 23, 2020
The ultimate global financial cost of COVID-19 could top $15 trillion, but governments might be able to prevent future pandemics by investing as little as $22 billion a year in programs to curb wildlife trafficking and stem the destruction of tropical forests, according to a new paper from an international team of scientists including Rice University's Ted Loch-Temzelides.
China’s energy infrastructure mapped by Baker Institute Jul. 23, 2020
HOUSTON – (July 23, 2020) – Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy has released its latest China Energy Map, an open-source, interactive chart of the country’s energy infrastructure.
Dateline Rice for July 23, 2020 Jul. 23, 2020
Architecture students win first place for pandemic-proof dormitory design Jul. 23, 2020
An elegantly imagined college dormitory designed for use during a pandemic has won top honors for a duo of Rice University students in the 2020 American Institute of Architects Houston (AIAH) Gulf Coast Green Student Competition.
HISD partners with Rice University to conduct districtwide study on educational equity Jul. 22, 2020
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) has partnered with Rice University’s Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), a program of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and School of Social Sciences, to conduct a comprehensive study on educational equity across the district.
Dateline Rice for July 22, 2020 Jul. 22, 2020
Contact-tracing software takes top prize at Rice Design-A-Thon Jul. 21, 2020
Top honors went to a team of Rice engineering students who created software to approximate COVID-19 contact tracing in schools.
Dateline Rice for July 20, 2020 (Weekend Edition) Jul. 20, 2020
Remembering John Lewis: Activist, Civil Rights Icon and Humanitarian Jul. 20, 2020
The Black Male Leadership Initiative (BMLI), with support from the Dean of Undergraduates and Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance, is honored to have serendipitously met John Lewis during our cultural excursion in May 2019 to Atlanta
Japanese students create online cookbook of cross-cultural recipes Jul. 20, 2020
Ahead of a typical study-abroad trip for Rice in Japan, professor Naoko Ozaki tells her second-year Japanese students to prepare a recipe they’ll be able to make using ingredients found in Tokyo or the countryside town of Fujieda, Ozaki’s hometown.
Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap Jul. 20, 2020
A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the free-floating genes in wastewater treatment plants.
Humanities debuts unique Department of Transnational Asian Studies Jul. 20, 2020
The ‘Asia’ this department will study is nearly global.
New Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures elevates language-based humanities at Rice Jul. 20, 2020
Historically and geographically, the new department reaches from ancient Greece to the contemporary Americas.
People, papers and presentations July 20,2020 Jul. 20, 2020
Kathy Ensor, the Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics at Rice, has been elected the 117th president of the American Statistical Association.
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