Rice News Archive - 2021

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Dateline Rice for March 5, 2021 Mar. 5, 2021

Phsyics Girls

Physics camp has proven benefits for high school girls Mar. 5, 2021

HOUSTON – (March 5, 2021) – Even a small effort up front can boost the abilities and confidence of girls as they anticipate taking challenging science courses.

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Dateline Rice for March 4, 2021 Mar. 4, 2021

Elephant

Camera traps reveal newly discovered biodiversity relationship Mar. 3, 2021

In one of the first studies of its kind, an analysis of camera-trap data from 15 wildlife preserves in tropical rainforests revealed a previously unknown relationship between the biodiversity of mammals and the forests in which they live.

Thai Chi in the Quad

Spring breaks Mar. 3, 2021

This semester, Rice’s traditional spring break has been broken up into five separate “sprinkle days” due to coronavirus restrictions.

Ilinca Stanciulescu

Rice mourns death of Ilinca Stanciulescu, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering Mar. 3, 2021

Ilinca Stanciulescu, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice, died Sunday after battling cancer. She was 49.

Making Sense

New sensation: Grad student symposium hosts international experts on five senses Mar. 2, 2021

‘Making Sense’ draws scholars from diverse array of disciplines March 12-13 for an international conference on humanistic research.

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Dateline Rice for March 2, 2021 Mar. 2, 2021

CERAWeek

Rice University experts to be featured at CERAWeek Mar. 1, 2021

Rice is an academic partner of CERAWeek, with the university's Energy and Natural Resources Initiative spearheading its involvement. The annual conference, which usually takes place in Houston, will be held online this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

JIBA

Rice earns Tree Campus USA recognition for ninth straight year Mar. 1, 2021

Rice received the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA designation for the ninth consecutive year in 2020.

Student Working

Rice offering undergraduate major in business starting this fall Mar. 1, 2021

HOUSTON – (March 1, 2021) – Rice University will offer an undergraduate major in business beginning this fall.

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Dateline Rice for March 1, 2021 (Weekend Edition) Mar. 1, 2021

Dateline Rice for March 1, 2021 (Weekend Edition)

Bottle

Bottling the world's coldest plasma Feb. 28, 2021

Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the world's coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle, a technological achievement that could advance research into clean energy, space weather and astrophysics.

Rice University theoretical physicists Hsin-Hua Lai, Qimiao Si and Sarah Grefe.

Quantum quirk yields giant magnetic effect, where none should exist Feb. 26, 2021

In a twist befitting the strange nature of quantum mechanics, physicists have discovered the Hall effect — a characteristic change in the way electricity is conducted in the presence of a magnetic field — in a nonmagnetic quantum material to which no magnetic field was applied.

Utah FORGE has completed drilling of its first deviated well, a critical step in the enhanced geothermal project backed by the Department of Energy. Rice University scientists have been tapped to join the project to accelerate breakthroughs in geothermal systems that could someday provide unlimited, inexpensive energy. (Credit: Eric Larson)

Rice team forges path toward geothermal future Feb. 26, 2021

Rice scientists have joined a federal project to accelerate breakthroughs in geothermal systems for unlimited, inexpensive energy.