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Dateline Rice for Feb. 20, 2024 Feb. 20, 2024

Dateline Rice for Feb. 20, 2024

Photo of Sherwin Bryant in walkway outside Rice University's Sewall Hall.

New CAAAS director Sherwin Bryant talks Black History Month, vision for center’s future Feb. 20, 2024

Sherwin Bryant is approaching his new role as director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) with energy, enthusiasm and a vision that he said reflects the capacious and thoughtful energy that went into creating the center.

"Sites of Impermanence," a National Academy of Design (NAD) exhibition opening in New York City on February 8, 2024, showcases art and architectural works by the recently elected 2023 National Academicians, including Rice University School of Architecture Professor Carlos Jiménez.

Rice Architecture professor Carlos Jiménez’s exhibited at National Academy of Design Feb. 20, 2024

“Sites of Impermanence,” a National Academy of Design (NAD) exhibition opening in New York City on Feb. 8, 2024, showcases art and architectural works by the recently elected 2023 National Academicians, including Rice University School of Architecture Professor Carlos Jiménez.

Moody Center flings into spring with genre-defying concert and free exhibition access March 2 Feb. 20, 2024

Providing a dynamic venue to showcase regional bands and offering free-access art exhibitions, Spring Fling at Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts is back for a fifth year.

Rice’s Moody Center kicks off Women’s History Month with reception for new campus art installation Feb. 20, 2024

Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts will kick off Women’s History Month with an opening reception for multidisciplinary artist Martha Tuttle’s site-specific public installation “the bear that longs to touch the ocean.”

Dateline Rice for Feb. 19, 2024 (Weekend Edition) Feb. 19, 2024

Dateline Rice for Feb. 19, 2024 (Weekend Edition)

Rice keeps rolling with Houston BCycle Feb. 19, 2024

Rice University is welcoming a familiar service back to campus: Houston BCycle. In addition, by signing up with their rice.edu email addresses, Rice Owls are able to purchase discounted $14 monthly subscriptions.

Mitzvah Marathon churns out good deeds from Owls Feb. 19, 2024

Mitzvah, the Hebrew word for good deed, was in full celebration Feb. 14 at Rice University. Chabad at Rice welcomed faculty, staff and students to the central quad to participate by donating blood, making sandwiches for the undomiciled population, creating cards for young hospital patients and entering a bone marrow registry.

Rice to host groundbreaking for new visual arts building Sarofim Hall Feb. 19, 2024

Rice University will host a groundbreaking ceremony for the Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall, a new home for the Department of Art, at 3 p.m. Feb. 29. The building will be named for Susan and Fayez Sarofim, the lead donors for the project.

Are American voters really as polarized as they seem? Rice research suggests yes Feb. 19, 2024

A new study of American voters by researchers at Rice University and Stanford University shows that while response rates to political surveys are on the decline, people are more polarized than ever.

Rice joins federal consortium on AI safety Feb. 19, 2024

Rice has joined the nation’s leading artificial intelligence stakeholders to participate in a Department of Commerce initiative to support the development and deployment of trustworthy and safe AI.

Rice architect Juan Jose Castellon’s installation project named finalist for 2024 Forge Prize Feb. 16, 2024

A sustainable shade system installation created by Rice Architecture’s Juan José Castellón has been selected one of the three finalists for the 2024 Forge Prize by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).

Rice’s De Lange Conference traverses futures of synthetic biology, data technology and climate change Feb. 16, 2024

Rice University’s 2024 biennial De Lange Conference featured an array of distinguished speakers, artists and researchers who engaged in thought-provoking discussions regarding timely technological and environmental topics Feb. 9-10 at the Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Rice at Rice: Former Sec. of State discusses free speech, global leadership Feb. 16, 2024

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy Director David Satterfield at an event in the Brockman Hall for Opera’s Morrison Theater Feb. 15.

Art history scholar links Sunni and Shi’i architectural heritage in fifth annual Kazimi Lecture Feb. 16, 2024

Stephennie Mulder, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, presented her research during the Rice School of Humanities' fifth annual Kazimi Lecture in Shi'i Studies.