Rice cracks top 10 for first time on Forbes’ top colleges list Aug. 30, 2024
This achievement marks the first time the university has landed in a top 10 spot on the list.
Rice News Archive - 2024
Dateline Rice for Aug. 30, 2024 Aug. 30, 2024
Dateline Rice for Aug. 30, 2024
New Rice research center takes on challenge to break down, replace ‘forever chemicals’ Aug. 30, 2024
Rice inaugurated a new research center dedicated to ‘forever chemicals’ on Wednesday during a visit to campus by representatives of the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center.
Dateline Rice for Aug. 30, 2024 Aug. 30, 2024
Dateline Rice for Aug. 30, 2024
‘An institutional investment’: Evolution and impact of Rice’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality Aug. 30, 2024
At a time when some states and public universities are eliminating gender, sexuality and related studies, Rice’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality stands strong as an example of interdisciplinary scholarship and advocacy.
Dateline Rice for Aug. 29, 2024 Aug. 29, 2024
Dateline Rice for Aug. 29, 2024
‘Brilliant and brave’: Rice remembers, mourns student Andrea Rodriguez Avila Aug. 29, 2024
The Rice community is mourning the tragic, violent loss of Andrea Rodriguez Avila, a Jones College junior remembered as a bright and dedicated young scholar with a promising future.
Interdisciplinary Rice graduate program earns $3M NSF grant Aug. 29, 2024
A research traineeship program developed by a team of Rice faculty led by Junichiro Kono has received an award of $3 million over five years from the National Science Foundation to equip a new generation of scientists and engineers with the skills needed to serve as leaders in quantum technology innovation.
Annual Rice event explores AI innovation in health care Aug. 29, 2024
Rice’s Ken Kennedy Institute is hosting the third annual AI in Health Conference Sept. 9-12 with themes this year including foundation models in medicine, LLM applications, AI in neuroscience and neurotechnology, digital twins in health care and patient engagement and equity in health AI.
Rice graduate students awarded NSF INTERN grants for real-world research opportunities Aug. 29, 2024
Rice graduate students Eric Wuesthoff and Esther Jimenez are the recipients of the National Science Foundation’s INTERN awards.
The Medical Humanities Research Institute at Rice aims to answer pressing questions through the Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, “Reimagining Technologies of Care: Racial Health Equity and Data Justice.”
OpenStax partners with Google’s Gemini Apps Aug. 29, 2024
OpenStax, the world’s largest nonprofit publisher of open educational resources (OER) based at Rice, announces a partnership with Google to expand access to relevant, trustworthy educational content. This partnership will enable the OpenStax library of more than 70 openly licensed, peer-reviewed textbooks to be discovered, searched and referenced within Google Gemini. These materials will be available to Gemini users 18 and older in the United States starting in August 2024.
Rice Owls teach international students about American football Aug. 28, 2024
The Rice Owls introduced international students and scholars to American football during an international football clinic Aug. 24.
Dateline Rice for Aug. 28, 2024 Aug. 28, 2024
Dateline Rice for Aug. 28, 2024
Owls to open year with three local opponents beginning with Sam Houston Aug. 31 at home Aug. 28, 2024
The Rice Owl football team will look to once again sweep games against local opponents in the 2024 season, opening the year against three straight foes from Houston and nearby Huntsville, Texas.
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