Rice has partnered with the Houston Health Department to provide first and second doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to members of the university community
Consumers perceive diverse organizations to be moral organizations, new research indicates, and the perception can affect consumer behavior. When people see diversity in a corporate
HOUSTON – (Oct. 7, 2021) – Dr. Rola El-Serag will join Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy Oct. 18 as the L.E. and Virginia Simmons Senior Fellow in Health Policy and director of the institute’s Center for Health and…
OpenStax, Rice University’s educational technology initiative offering free and flexible texbooks and other resources, has added nine new technology partners to its OpenStax Ally program.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL Technological leap for ‘urban mining’ could recover precious metals from electronic waste in seconds An article features Rice research on using flash Joule heating,
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL What happened to Texas’ tilt from red to blue? That’s a gray area Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies,
After more than a year of Zoom concerts and recitals taking the place of public performances in person, Rice University's Stude Concert Hall once again came alive with the sounds of the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra this past weekend…
The NSF awards nearly $3 million to the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics to continue its leadership role in the Physics of Living Systems graduate research network.
Yunmi Kong, an assistant professor of economics at Rice University, is the recipient of a Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA) Young Scholar Award.
The former glacier Okjökull made international headlines in the summer of 2019 when Rice anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer organized the first memorial service for a glacier lost to climate change.
Baker College associate and director of the Principles of Economics program James DeNicco grilled links upon links of venison sausage Oct. 2 for Baker’s annual
HOUSTON – (Oct. 4, 2021) – The transition to renewable energy will make the U.S. energy supply significantly more secure not only by decreasing the mining and materials required to build fossil fuel systems, but also by avoiding the…
Flash Joule heating recovers valuable and toxic metals from electronic waste. The process allows for “urban mining” of resources that could be a win for the environment as well as for manufacturers.
Vice President for Global and Digital Strategy Caroline Levander has been elected vice chair of the Fulbright Association, effective Jan. 1, 2022. Her term lasts
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL Serendipity and foresight prepared the world to fight the coronavirus An article features alumnus Barney Graham, deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center at the
Ambassador Edward Djerejian, director of Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, this week announced his retirement effective at the conclusion of his 28th year, on June 30, 2022.
Miah Im, Rice's dynamic director of opera studies who was celebrated in the opera world for her depth of experience, commitment to developing young artists and generous and supportive nature toward peers and performers alike, passed away…
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL The plot against democracy: How Texas Republicans plan to steal power from minority voters Stephen Klineberg, founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL The plot against democracy: How Texas Republicans plan to steal power from minority voters Stephen Klineberg, founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban