Dateline Rice for Feb. 9, 2022 Feb. 17, 2022
Dateline Rice for Feb. 9, 2022
Rice News Archive - 2022
Inaugural class of Rice Innovation Fellows announced Feb. 17, 2022
The Provost’s Office and the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Lilie) have announced the inaugural class of Rice Innovation Fellows, a program that will provide educational and financial support to the next generation of scientist- and engineer-led spinout ventures.
Rice Cinema screening Blue’s ‘Olive Trees of Justice’ over two nights Feb. 17, 2022
Algerian-set drama was legendary film professor’s only non-documentary film
CPRIT supports work on combo cancer therapy Feb. 17, 2022
Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao is developing a three-pronged attack on solid cancer tumors. The research now has the support of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Environmental champions win Rice grants Feb. 16, 2022
The Rice University Sustainable Futures Fund backs six projects to help bolster the planet’s environmental health.
As time goes on, Americans are moving less often Feb. 16, 2022
Migration in the United States has been on a downward trend since the 1960s, according to new research from Rice University.
Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, announced as Rice’s 2022 commencement speaker Feb. 16, 2022
Sonia Nazario, an award-winning journalist whose work has tackled some of the United States’ most intractable problems — hunger, drug addiction and immigration — will deliver the 2022 commencement address at Rice University.
Rice Theatre presents ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ Feb. 15, 2022
Acclaimed musical comedy comes to Hamman Hall Feb. 25-26, March 3-5
Strong magnets put new twist on phonons Feb. 15, 2022
Phonons, quasiparticles in a crystal lattice that are usually hard to control by external fields, can be manipulated by a magnetic field -- but it takes a very strong magnet.
February freeze analyzed one year later Feb. 15, 2022
Last February’s severe winter storm caused sustained peaks in demand for electricity across Texas, triggering tremendous stress on the state’s power grid and widespread outages lasting days. Now a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy examines why the winter storm caused this deadly electricity supply crisis and how it could have been avoided.
Senior Jasmine Manansala talks ‘Jeopardy!’ lessons learned, friendships forged after game show appearance Feb. 14, 2022
Trivia-lovers the world over got to know Brown College senior Jasmine Manansala last week when she competed in the “Jeopardy!” National College Championship Feb. 8.
Kate Shepherd’s first permanent wall painting on public view installed at Rice Feb. 14, 2022
The piece joins the university’s growing collection of public art
A GREAT arts walk across campus Feb. 14, 2022
“It is amazing to see how Rice graduate international students give back to our local community”
Bacterial ‘bully’ could improve food production Feb. 14, 2022
Lactic acid bacteria that thrive in many organisms, including humans, employ a hybrid metabolism that combines respiration and fermentation to give it an advantage over competitors. Researchers say the discovery could lead to enhanced techniques for food and chemical production.
Kolditz, director of Rice's Doerr Institute, announces departure Feb. 14, 2022
Tom Kolditz, director of Rice University's Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders, has announced his departure from Rice effective June 30, 2022. He will remain with the institute as a member of its external advisory board.
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