Rice News Archive - 2020

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Dateline Rice for March 2, 2020 (Weekend Edition) Mar. 2, 2020

Diana Strassmann is the director of Rice’s program in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities.

'A force of good': PJHC program at Rice turns 10 Mar. 2, 2020

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David Rhodes. Photo by Jeff Fitlow.

Ex-CBS News president talks future of news at Social Sciences anniversary lecture Mar. 2, 2020

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All in the Timing

It’s all in the timing at Rice Theatre Mar. 2, 2020

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Kavraki honored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Mar. 2, 2020

Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award for her fundamental contributions to robot design.

Low-salinity brine injected into crude oil forms nanoscale droplets that help separate oil from rock in reservoirs, according to Rice University engineers. The black ring around the droplets, seen in a cryogenic electron microscope image, is asphaltene. (Credit: Wenhua Guo/Rice University)

‘Smart water’ may aid oil recovery Mar. 2, 2020

Rice University engineers study the mechanism that would allow “smart water" to aid oil recovery from reservoirs.

Global Rice Empowers Academics and Training (GREAT) Project

International grad students host classes for young adults with special needs Mar. 2, 2020

A group of young adults was absorbing new words in Quechua, an Incan language native to Ecuador, in one corner of a spacious, sunny room in Herring Hall.

Kraft Hall street view

Social Sciences turns 40: A look back Mar. 2, 2020

More than a third of Rice undergraduates major in the social sciences, making it tough to imagine that Rice's School of Social Sciences didn't exist 40 years ago.

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Poultry in motion Mar. 2, 2020

Rice’s Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden has new residents: a flock of chickens.

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Heart nanofiber breakthrough awaits your STAT Madness vote Mar. 2, 2020

Joint Texas Heart Institute/Rice University research into using carbon nanotube fibers to bridge damaged areas of hearts is part of this year's STAT Madness, a competition to choose the year's best university-based bioscience project.

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Cole Derksen finds balance at Rice University Mar. 2, 2020

Judge Franklin Bynum, Judge Andrew Edison, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, ADA Mark Goldberg. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

Rice students tackle criminal justice reform at Houston Policy Challenge Mar. 2, 2020

One of the toughest public policy issues of our time was tackled by teams of Rice students who gathered to pitch their ideas on how to improve criminal justice policy in the Houston area.

Rice computer science graduate students Beidi Chen and Tharun Medini

Deep learning rethink overcomes major obstacle in AI industry Mar. 2, 2020

Rice University computer scientists have overcome a major obstacle in the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry.

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Dateline Rice for Feb. 28, 2020 Feb. 28, 2020

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Rice U. energy expert: Oil and gas industry's 'defensive' history influences approach to climate change Feb. 28, 2020

HOUSTON – (Feb. 28, 2020) – As the climate debate heats up ahead of the 2020 elections, the country's oil and gas companies want to get in front of the curve. But they may be hampered by a longstanding culture of playing defense, according to an energy industry expert at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business.