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Rice Business professor named fellow of Strategic Management Society Sep. 15, 2021

Rice Business professor named fellow of Strategic Management Society

Shirazeh Houshiary's sculpture “Seif” was installed last week on the lawn outside the new Sid Richardson College. (Photos by Brandon Martin)

Rice’s latest piece of public art, 'Seif,' lights up campus Sep. 15, 2021

Shirazeh Houshiary’s glass helix sculpture draws attention day and night.

Dateline Rice for Sept. 14, 2021 Sep. 14, 2021

Everybody dance now Sep. 14, 2021

Will Rice junior Annie Xu leads one group of incoming Duncan College students in a dance-off while Duncan sophomore Pia Arana and Duncan senior Mei Leebron lead another across the commons. Learning your college’s line dances and rally cheers are as much a part of O-Week as learning your way around campus. (Photos by Jeff Fitlow and Tommy LaVergne)

Dateline Rice for Aug. 26, 2021 Sep. 14, 2021

Grace Forbes celebrates as she nears the finish line during the Rice Invitational (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)

Successful start to cross-country season Sep. 13, 2021

Grace Forbes (pictured) cruised to victory and the Owl men captured the team competition as the Rice Invitational kicked off the cross-country season Friday.

Message from provost on launch of Rice Quantum Initiative Sep. 13, 2021

For more than four decades, Rice University scientists and engineers have explored and expanded the boundaries of quantum science and created revolutionary computation, sensing and communication technologies based on the principles of quantum mechanics.

Bitcoin coins and a credit card on top of a computer

Rice U. expert available to discuss cryptocurrency taxes Sep. 13, 2021

HOUSTON – (Sept. 13, 2021) – Cryptocurrency — an estimated $2 trillion market — has created an estimated $1 trillion tax gap and become too big to avoid regulatory oversight, according to a new blog post from an expert at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Diamondback moth (This work, "Plutella.xylostella.7383," by of Olaf Leillinger is used and provided under CC BY SA 2.5 courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Crop-eating moths will flourish as climate warms Sep. 13, 2021

Climate change in this century will allow one of the world's costliest agricultural pests, the diamondback moth, to both thrive year-round and rapidly evolve resistance to pesticides in large parts of the United States, Europe and China where it previously died each winter, according to a study by U.S. and Chinese researchers.

Dateline Rice for Sept. 13, 2021 (Weekend Edition) Sep. 13, 2021

Experts will educate public at Sept. 20 teach-in on Texas abortion law, reproductive rights Sep. 13, 2021

Rice hosts Leah Litman, Melaney Linton, Wendy Davis and more in response to Texas abortion ban via Zoom webinar.

Rice Theatre presents 'On the Verge' Oct. 8-10 Sep. 13, 2021

Eric Overmyer’s magical play follows three Victorian explorers through place and time.

How can Uncle Sam tax cryptocurrency? Sep. 13, 2021

Cryptocurrency — an estimated $2 trillion market — has created an estimated $1 trillion tax gap and become too big to avoid regulatory oversight, according to a new blog post from Joyce Beebe, fellow in public finance at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Using computational models and atomic force microscope experiments, researchers at the University of Houston and Rice University have identified a possible “Achilles’ heel” in the frustration of amyloid beta peptides as they dock to the fibrils that form plaques in patients with Alzheimer’s. The frustrated steps could open a window for drugs able to cap the fibril ends, preventing further aggregation. (Credit: Illustration by Yuechuan Xu/Peter Vekilov/University of Houston)

Docking peptides, slow to lock, open possible path to treat Alzheimer’s Sep. 13, 2021

Researchers have identified a possible “Achilles’ heel” in the frustration of amyloid beta peptides as they dock to the fibrils that form plaques in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

The new Department of Transnational Asian Studies will be housed on the fifth floor of Lovett Hall. (Photo by Brandon Martin)

Rice among nation’s top 20 universities in US News rankings Sep. 13, 2021

HOUSTON – (Sept. 13, 2021) – Rice is named one of the nation’s top 20 universities in the 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook.