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Rivals remember 9/11 Sep. 13, 2021

Rice MOB and UH marching band on field, Sep. 11, 2021

Clean Energy Accelerator startups to pitch investors and community on Demo Day Sep. 13, 2021

HOUSTON – (Sept. 13, 2021) – A dozen startups will pitch their clean energy technologies to investors and industry leaders this week as a virtual Demo Day concludes the inaugural class of the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator.

Dateline Rice for Sept. 10, 2021 Sep. 10, 2021

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Chengzu Ou was the first grad student to borrow the new "starter kits" from the loan closet this year.

Graduate Student Loan Closet reopens, restocked and revamped Sep. 8, 2021

The ‘incredible resource’ for three decades of Owls had to shut down during the pandemic.

Skylines of San Antonio, Dallas and Houston

Deep in the heart of the 'Texas Triangle,' a global powerhouse emerges Sep. 8, 2021

Simmons: Confront legacies of slavery 'unflinchingly' Sep. 8, 2021

When she was president of an Ivy League university, Ruth Simmons learned the importance of confronting an institution’s complicated and controversial history head-on. Now, as a Rice trustee emerita and president of Prairie View A&M University, she has some thoughts and advice.

An illustration shows how optical trapping could be used to investigate collective, force-generating properties in a complex of motor molecules. A National Science Foundation grant to Rice University to acquire an optical tweezer will advance researchers’ investigation of biological and inorganic molecules. (Credit: Diehl Lab/Rice University)

Tweezer grant pleases Rice researchers Sep. 8, 2021

Rice researchers have won an NSF grant to acquire a sophisticated optical tweezer microscope to manipulate, measure and monitor micron-scale particles.

Climate progress requires competition, not cooperation, with China Sep. 8, 2021

HOUSTON – (Sept. 8, 2021) – Global climate progress requires fundamentally altering the economic bottom line that’s the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party’s power– and it will come through competition, not cooperation, according to experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the U.S. Naval War College.

Dateline Rice for Sept. 7, 2021 (Weekend Edition) Sep. 7, 2021

Rice among most acclaimed universities in Princeton Review history Sep. 7, 2021

Rice University ranks among the most lauded institutions in the history of the Princeton Review’s annual survey on the nation’s best colleges, according to a newly published report analyzing three decades of reviews on America’s institutions of higher education.

Resumayhem returns Sep. 7, 2021

The Center for Career Development's annual fall picnic and Resumayhem returned Aug. 27

Dashboard displays troubling trend of unexplained deaths Sep. 7, 2021

‘Slow-burning background crisis’ revealed in new work by Rice humanities researcher John Mulligan.

The North Atlantic network of sites that preserve records of hurricanes stretches along the coast from Canada to Central America, but with significant gaps. A new study led by scientists at Rice University shows filling those gaps with data from the mid-Atlantic states will help improve the historical record of storms over the past several thousand years and could aid in predictions of future storms in a time of climate change. Illustration by Elizabeth Wallace

Nature’s archive reveals Atlantic tempests through time Sep. 7, 2021

Rice scientists uncover how natural archives can record Atlantic hurricane frequency over the past 1,000 years. SUMMARY: Rice University scientists uncover how natural archives can record Atlantic hurricane frequency over the past 1,000 years. More data is needed to help model how climate change will affect storms in the future.