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Rice United Way Campaign surpasses 90% of goal Nov. 16, 2020

At the end of the sixth week, Rice’s annual United Way campaign has raised $226,544 of the $250,000 goal.

Americans' attitudes about guns influenced by owners’ race and gender Nov. 16, 2020

HOUSTON – (Nov. 16, 2020) – A new study from researchers at Rice University found that Americans' attitudes about gun ownership are impacted by the gender and race of firearms' potential owners.

Dateline Rice for Nov. 16, 2020 (Weekend Edition) Nov. 16, 2020

SpaceX flying ex-football players, flight controller, Scout An article features astronaut and alumna Shannon Walker '87, who is a member of the first crew rotation flight to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, which launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Nov. 15. Luis Duno-Gottberg, department chair and associate professor of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, is interviewed by KRIV following a watch party at Rice. McMurtry College senior Ryan Udell, president of Rice's chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, and graduate student Feni Pandya, vice president of SEDS Rice, are featured in a C-SPAN broadcast. The Associated Press (This article also appeared in the more than 100 other media outlets.)

People, papers and presentations Nov 16, 2020 Nov. 16, 2020

Ryan Udell, a senior mechanical engineering major, has received honorable mention in the 2020 Distinguished Undergraduate Awards presented by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA).

Image from a seismic study in northeastern China that shows both the top and bottom boundaries of a tectonic plate that formerly sat at bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged deep beneath China Nov. 16, 2020

In a study that gives new meaning to the term "rock bottom," seismic researchers have discovered the underside of a rocky slab of Earth's lithosphere that has been pulled more than 400 miles beneath northeastern China by the process of tectonic subduction.

What comes next? Rice experts to discuss 2020 election's impact in Nov. 18 webinar Nov. 16, 2020

HOUSTON – (Nov. 16, 2020) – The 2020 election is now one for the history books, and Rice University political scientists will discuss the results, President Donald Trump's reaction and the incoming Joe Biden administration’s likely domestic and foreign policy in a Nov. 18 webinar.

Have you thanked a Rice colleague lately? (Photo by Jeff Fitlow)

Thank You Rice campaign posts words of gratitude, encouragement for all to see Nov. 13, 2020

'Tis the season for giving thanks.

Dateline Rice for Nov. 13, 2020 Nov. 13, 2020

An article features Rice's plans to prevent the spread of COVID-19, which has included conducting over 60,000 tests since August, requiring face masks, holding some classes outdoors in tents and establishing the student-run COVID Community Court to adjudicate public health violations on campus. Rice community members quoted or mentioned include: President David Leebron; Bridget Gorman, dean of undergraduates; McMurtry College junior Mel Xiao; Jones College sophomore Jackson Jeffcoat; Duncan College junior Julian Braxton; Wiess College junior Abigail King; and Emily Garza, director of student judicial programs.

Flags of China and USA on Grunge Texture

Biden must avoid cold war with China, says Rice U. expert Nov. 12, 2020

With U.S.-China relations at their lowest point since the Cold War, President-elect Joe Biden’s expected approach to the world’s most populous country will likely exacerbate tensions, according to an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

An illustration shows a major histocompatibility (grey) protein encompassing a peptide drawn from a SARS-CoV virus (pink). The complex helps trigger the activation of T cells that are part of the immune system. Rice University researchers discovered a non-anchor binding residue in the peptide that could both contribute to binding and to the T-cell activation needed to defeat the virus. (Credit: Kavraki Lab/Rice University)

Once-discounted binding mechanism may be key to targeting viruses Nov. 12, 2020

Researchers detail subtle stabilizing effects in cells’ ability to recognize coronaviruses that compromise the immune system. The discovery could lead to new targets to prevent disease.

Virtual undergraduate research symposium draws students from around world Nov. 12, 2020

More than 250 students from 23 countries presented at the 12th annual Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS).

Dateline Rice for Nov. 12, 2020 Nov. 12, 2020

Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, is quoted.

Parents pick children’s pre-K based on location and program quality Nov. 12, 2020

HOUSTON – (Nov. 12, 2020) – Houston-area parents decide where to send their children for prekindergarten based largely on quality and location, according to a new research brief from Rice University's Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC).

The painless defibrillation project co-led by Texas Heart Institute and Rice won the Medical division of the Create the Future contest. Courtesy of Texas Heart Institute

Rice researchers top two categories in ‘Create the Future’ contest Nov. 11, 2020

Rice University was a double winner in the annual Create the Future Design Contest, an international competition in its 19th year.

Dateline Rice for Nov. 11, 2020 Nov. 11, 2020

Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, is quoted. CNN (This article also appeared in more than 30 other media outlets.)