Dateline Rice for March 24, 2021 Mar. 31, 2021
Rice News Archive - 2021
Dateline Rice for March 31, 2021 Mar. 31, 2021
Serving size, satisfaction influence food waste on campus Mar. 30, 2021
Understanding what drives food choices can help high-volume food service operations like universities reduce waste, according to a new study.
Rice graduate school programs score high in US News rankings Mar. 30, 2021
Eight Rice graduate programs rank among the country’s top 25 in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
Kumon or Montessori? It may depend on your politics, study of 8,500 parents finds Mar. 30, 2021
Whether parents prefer a conformance-oriented or independence-oriented supplemental education program for their children depends on political ideology, according to a study of more than 8,500 American parents by a research team from Rice and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Rice University admits highest number of freshman students Mar. 30, 2021
Applications jump 26% over last year, setting new record
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Dateline Rice for March 30, 2021
Rutgers' Team Patho-ML wins Rice 360° design competition Mar. 29, 2021
Undergraduates from Rutgers University, Uganda's Makerere University and Rice University took top honors in the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health student design competition March 26.
New Big Questions courses: The botched pandemic response, and why religion matters more than you know Mar. 29, 2021
A recent study from Indiana University-Purdue University and the University of Oklahoma suggests Americans who “strongly embrace Christian nationalism” — which, the authors note, is nearly 25% of the U.S. population and growing — are also much more likely to refuse COVID-19 vaccination.
Akane Sano wins NSF CAREER Award Mar. 29, 2021
Forget the mood ring. Akane Sano has a far better idea.
Bright lights, big sound Mar. 29, 2021
Live concerts with in-person audiences have been practically nonexistent over the past year, but after months of planning and practice, Rice Shepherd School of Music composition students presented five unique works written during the COVID-19 pandemic at a March 21 concert.
Digital divide disproportionately affected education for Black and Hispanic children during pandemic Mar. 29, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced education online about a year ago, more than one in five families lacked internet access or digital devices for their students to learn online.
Not the last picture show Mar. 29, 2021
Lovetteers enjoy a superhero flick on the lawn outside Lovett College during one of the many outdoor movie nights organized for the students this semester by Lovett associate Travis Alexander, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Humanities
The sound of silence Mar. 29, 2021
A Sidizen makes use of the new soundproof study booth on the ground floor of the new Sid Richardson College tower. The acoustic pod, the size of a phone booth, completely dampens all external noise but still allows in plenty of light. (
Ultimate field trip will be out of this world Mar. 29, 2021
While it may be virtual, the Rice Space Institute (RSI) has organized the ultimate spring trip for grade school students.
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