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Audrey's coffee shop in Jones School of Business

Audrey’s coffee shop now open in Jones School Jan. 13, 2020

Audrey’s is the latest project from Houston coffee maven David Buehrer.

People, papers and presentations Jan 13, 2020 Jan. 13, 2020

George Abbey, senior fellow in space policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, was elected to the Lone Star Flight Museum's Texas Aviation Hall of Fame. He will be inducted at a luncheon May 8 at Houston's Ellington Airport.

Glasscock School will offer classes at Ion innovation hub Jan. 10, 2020

Rice and the Ion are collaborating to offer courses to the public in technology, entrepreneurship and more.

Dateline Rice for Jan. 10, 2020 Jan. 10, 2020

Rice University researchers boosted the stability of their low-energy, copper-ruthenium syngas photocatalysts by shrinking the active sites to single atoms of ruthenium (blue). (Image by John Mark Martirez/UCLA)

Gasification goes green Jan. 10, 2020

Rice University engineers have created a light-powered nanoparticle that could shrink the carbon footprint of syngas producers.

Dateline Rice for Jan. 9, 2020 Jan. 9, 2020

Rice University Interim Provost Seiichi Matsuda, center, and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Director Abhay Karandikar, right, hold the memorandum of understanding signed today at Kanpur to collaborate on research in the development of energy solutions, materials and sustainable technologies. Behind Matsuda is Reginald DesRoches, dean of Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering, who will become provost in July. (Credit: Courtesy of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)

Rice, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur sign memorandum Jan. 9, 2020

Rice University and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on investing resources and research in the development of energy solutions, materials and sustainable technologies.

Dateline Rice for Jan. 8, 2020 Jan. 8, 2020

A structural view of the light-sensing part of PixJ from the side and above captured through X-ray crystallography demonstrates changes in the signaling protein when excited by light. The protein, part of the phytochromes responsible for letting plants sense the presence of light, was one of the first analyzed by researchers at Rice and elsewhere at the upgraded laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. (Credit: Jonathan Clinger/Rice University)

X-rays show how light transforms photosynthesis ‘switch’ Jan. 7, 2020

Researchers at Rice and their colleagues get their first detailed look at how plant proteins reconfigure themselves when exposed to light.

Dateline Rice for Jan. 7, 2020 Jan. 7, 2020

Former Russian foreign minister Kozyrev to speak at Rice's Baker Institute Jan. 7, 2020

HOUSTON – (Jan. 7, 2020) – Andrei Kozyrev, who served as foreign minister of Russia from 1991 to 1996, will discuss his book, "The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy," and current developments in Russia at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy Jan. 14.

Treat nonviolent drug offenses as public health issue, Baker Institute paper recommends Jan. 6, 2020

Drug use among people arrested for nonviolent drug offenses should be treated primarily as a public health issue, according to drug policy experts at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition.

Dateline Rice for Jan. 6, 2020 (Weekend Edition) Jan. 6, 2020

US confrontation with Iran: Energy experts from Baker Institute available for interviews Jan. 3, 2020

HOUSTON -- (Jan. 3, 2020) -- As tensions between the United States and Iran reach perilous levels, three experts in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy are available to speak with media about the implications for the markets and geopolitics.

Dateline Rice for Jan. 3, 2020 Jan. 3, 2020