Reducing newborn deaths across Africa enters Phase 2 with $65M Jan. 23, 2024
The Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360) international alliance launches Phase 2 of its mission to reduce newborn mortality in sub-Saharan Africa with $65 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, The ELMA Foundation, and generous individual contributions.
Dateline Rice for Jan. 23, 2024 Jan. 23, 2024
Dateline Rice for Jan. 23, 2024
Dateline Rice for Jan. 22, 2024 (Weekend Edition) Jan. 22, 2024
Dateline Rice for Jan. 22, 2024 (Weekend Edition)
Rice Staff Council announces the Rice Staff Excellence Award; nominations due Feb. 9 Jan. 22, 2024
In recognition of the outstanding contributions of Rice staff members, the Rice University Staff Council has created the Rice Staff Excellence Award.
Rice women’s basketball hits ground running in AAC Jan. 22, 2024
Following back-to-back conference road wins last week against East Carolina University and Tulane University, the Rice women’s basketball team is now tied for first place in its first year in the American Athletic Conference.
Engineering professor remembered as ‘brilliant and thoughtful scientist’ Jan. 22, 2024
Calvin “Herb” Ward, an Air Force veteran whose career at Rice spanned more than half a century, died Dec. 28 at the age of 90.
Friends of Fondren event celebrates Rice authors, artists Jan. 22, 2024
Friends of Fondren Library honored Rice University authors, editors, composers and artists of works published in 2023 during its annual celebration event Jan. 17.
Crises create opportunities for organizations to get ‘jazzy,’ Rice research shows Jan. 22, 2024
Organizational leaders may benefit from operating more like a jazz ensemble during crises in order to utilize their resources in unconventional ways, according to new research from Rice University.
Fast-rising star conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya, music director of the Chicago Opera Theater and founder of the Refugee Orchestra Project, will lead the Rice University Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra in a Feb. 2 performance with works exploring different shades of the human experience.
Dateline Rice for Jan. 19, 2024 Jan. 19, 2024
Dateline Rice for Jan. 19, 2024
Rice’s Amanda Marciel wins NSF CAREER Award Jan. 19, 2024
Rice’s Amanda Marciel has won an NSF CAREER Award for her research on materials useful in applications such as stretchable electronics and biomimetic tissues.
Rice to hold winter clothing drive Jan. 22-31 Jan. 18, 2024
Rice University’s Emergency Medical Services and Housing and Dining departments have teamed up for a winter clothing drive set for Jan. 22-31.
Global health initiative targeting newborn mortality to announce next phase Jan. 23 with new, 8-figure funding Jan. 18, 2024
A major initiative to improve newborn care and survival across sub-Saharan Africa will announce the next phase of activities supported by new, eight-figure funding during a press conference held at Rice University’s Biosciences Research Collaborative Jan. 23.
Dateline Rice for Jan. 18, 2024 Jan. 18, 2024
Dateline Rice for Jan. 18, 2024
Rice research opens new arena to study quantum interactions Jan. 18, 2024
Rice scientists along with collaborators at Durham University prolonged quantum behavior in an experimental system nearly 30-fold by using ultracold temperatures and special laser wavelengths to generate a “magic trap” that delays the onset of quantum decoherence.
