Rice News Archive - 2022

Dateline Rice for Jan. 26, 2022 Jan. 26, 2022

Dateline Rice for Jan. 26, 2022

Dateline Rice for Jan. 25, 2022 Jan. 26, 2022

Dateline Rice for Jan. 25, 2022

Dateline Rice for Jan. 24, 2022 (Weekend Edition) Jan. 26, 2022

Dateline Rice for Jan. 24, 2022 (Weekend Edition)

'Cultures of Energy' podcast returns on Groundhog Day Jan. 26, 2022

The "Cultures of Energy" podcast, hosted by Rice University anthropologists Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe, returns Feb. 2 with the first of 10 new episodes after a more than two-year hiatus.

Dateline Rice for Jan. 21, 2022 Jan. 26, 2022

Dateline Rice for Jan. 21, 2022

Deep dive into juvenile justice data shows opportunity for targeted, early intervention Jan. 26, 2022

A Rice University Texas Policy Lab (TPL) analysis of juvenile justice data reveals most youths in the Harris County juvenile justice system are "one and done" — that is, they only have one interaction with it.

James Pomerantz named AAAS fellow Jan. 26, 2022

James Pomerantz has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Rice Founder’s Memorial statue to be relocated in Academic Quad Jan. 25, 2022

Rice University’s Academic Quadrangle will undergo a major redesign that will include moving the Founder’s Memorial statue of William Marsh Rice to a new location within the quadrangle.

Now you don’t see it … and now you do Jan. 25, 2022

Scientists and engineers from Rice University and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research discover fluorescence from silicon nanoparticles in cement and show how it can be used to reveal early signs of damage in concrete structures.

Acting like an expert even without experience can help secure venture capital funding, study finds Jan. 25, 2022

A report from Alessandro Piazza, assistant professor of strategic management at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business; Brian Chung, doctoral candidate at Rice Business; and Dortmund University’s Daniel Reese analyzed data on 4,190 new ventures and their founders. They found that “expertise signaling” by founders — self-presentation that might not align with reality when it comes to their experience, skills or background — played a significant role in their companies' success.

‘Lefty’ tightens control of embryonic development Jan. 25, 2022

A protein known as Lefty pumps the brakes as human embryos begin to differentiate into the bones, soft tissues and organs that make us.

James Tour available to comment on molecular electronics advance Jan. 24, 2022

More than 20 years ago, Wired featured Rice University chemist James Tour in a story about molecular electronics, then a focus of his lab. At the time, he said commercializing single molecules turned into circuits was perhaps three to five years away. “I was only off by an order of magnitude,” Tour says now after assisting a California company, Roswell Biotechnologies, in fabricating semiconducting sensors using single molecules as the key component.

New wing at Hanszen College making progress Jan. 24, 2022

The first timber column has been laid at Hanszen College’s new wing .

Antibody with engineered peptide targets bone metastasis Jan. 24, 2022

A moderate amount of a peptide-enhanced cancer drug goes a long way in treating breast cancers that metastasize to the bone.

Rice’s annual United Way campaign concludes, raising over $264,000 in 15 weeks Jan. 24, 2022

After 15 weeks of fundraising, the annual Rice United Way campaign ultimately brought in $264,720.