Releases since Jan. 1, 2008
5/6/2008 - Hispanic/Latino Summit to address pressing social issues
5/1/2008 - Gates Foundation has had positive impact on NIH's global health research, study at Rice U. finds
4/30/2008 - Rice biologists elected fellows of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
4/29/2008 - Annual study finds Houstonians' attitudes sour toward immigration
4/28/2008 - Holocaust awareness and remembrance event features art, lecture
4/24/2008 - Rice, Methodist and TFA receive $1.5 million NSF grant to study in-home health management and next-generation wireless networks
4/22/2008 - Rice breaks ground for a new multipurpose Recreation and Wellness Center
4/22/2008 - Rice, Lockheed Martin partner on nanotech research
4/18/2008 - Rice and UT Houston join DOD push for regenerative medicine
4/16/2008 - Are sacrificial bacteria altruistic or just unlucky?
4/11/2008 - April 11 forum to focus on cultural differences in global business
4/9/2008 - Rice Powwow offers free entertainment Friday night
4/9/2008 - CEO of Opportunity International to speak at Rice U. April 16
4/1/2008 - Rice MBA moves up eight places in the U.S. News & World Report Ranking
4/1/2008 - Continents loss to oceans boosts staying power
3/31/2008 - Anderson and Carlson named to Rice University Board of Trustees; Foshee and Oshman re-elected
3/20/2008 - Tiny buckyballs squeeze hydrogen like giant Jupiter
3/13/2008 - Rice ranked No. 5 best value by Kiplinger
3/12/2008 - Astronomers find grains of sand around distant stars
3/11/2008 - Microchip fingerprints used to lock out chip pirates
3/10/2008 - Chemistry's Zubarev named Sloan Research Fellow
3/10/2008 - World's top scholars come to Rice to discuss Judas
3/7/2008 - Biologists surprised to find parochial bacterial viruses
3/6/2008 - ConocoPhillips supports expansion of Rice University’s model science labs
2/26/2008 - BP selects Rice University to lead consortium of renowned universities to support its global technical learning program
2/20/2008 - Baker Institute discussion will examine the debate on patenting embryonic stem cells
2/19/2008 - Rice computer chip makes Technology Review's top 10
2/18/2008 - Rice University's Baker Institute offers briefing on the future of U.S. health-care policy
2/14/2008 - As graduation rates go down, school ratings go up
2/13/2008 - Microbial 'cheaters' help scientists ID 'social' genes
2/13/2008 - Rice University launches national media Web site
2/11/2008 - Rice bioengineer elected to National Academy of Engineering
2/7/2008 - Baker Institute experts cite shortcomings in U.S. energy bill
2/7/2008 - Sen. John Kerry available to media after keynote address at Rice University's Baker Institute conference on climate change
2/6/2008 - Rice scientists make breakthrough in single-molecule sensing
1/28/2008 - Rice experts available for comment on State of the Union Speech
1/28/2008 - Department of Energy selects Rice to build solar-powered home
1/28/2008 - Rice wins innovation award for international program
1/28/2008 - Houston mayor, Shell Oil Company president and a Nobel Prize winner to speak at Rice Thursday during national 'teach-in' on global warming solutions
1/28/2008 - Feds fund study of drug that may prevent radiation injury
1/25/2008 - Sen. John Kerry to keynote Rice University's Baker Institute conference on climate change
1/24/2008 - South Korea's U.N. ambassador to speak at Rice's Baker Institute
1/22/2008 - Nanotech yields darkest material ever measured
1/22/2008 - Scientists develop low-cost, 'green' antimicrobial paint
1/17/2008 - Deep-ocean researchers target tsunami zone near Japan
1/17/2008 - Rice helps provide Ethiopia's first planetarium
1/15/2008 - Advanced Energy Consortium Will Develop Micro and NanoSensors to Boost Energy Production
1/15/2008 - Rice student has been missing one month; clues still sought
1/11/2008 - Oshmans and National Instruments give major gifts to Rice for engineering design facility
1/10/2008 - Rice's West honored as one of Texas' best researchers
1/8/2008 - Baker Institute named among top think tanks in U.S.
Releases since Jan. 1, 2007
12/21/2007 - Rice sociologist named U.S. Census director
12/18/2007 - Rice keeps tuition below $30,000 for the 2008-09 school year and doubles no-loan threshold
12/17/2007 - New property found in ancient mineral lodestone
12/13/2007 - Bioengineering's Jianpeng Ma elected APS fellow
12/13/2007 - 'Intellectual Salon' engages Rice students in discussions with religious leaders
12/7/2007 - U.S. Gen. Eikenberry to speak at Baker Institute on role of NATO
12/4/2007 - Rice University joins Education Policy Alliance
12/4/2007 - Robotics lab helps TIRR stroke patients with recovery
12/3/2007 - Study: Re-engineered Gleevec™ reduces heart risks
11/27/2007 - Commerce secretary to address Baker Institute conference on free trade
11/16/2007 - Rice U. mathematician named Texas Professor of the Year
11/13/2007 - Changing environment organizes genetic structure
11/12/2007 - Proteins pack tighter in crowded native state
11/9/2007 - Rice alum funds new program to study political campaigns
11/5/2007 - Rensselaer Polytechnic president to speak at Baker Institute
11/5/2007 - Rice's Baker Institute launches Mexico series with lecture on development policy
11/1/2007 -
Radio waves fire up nanotubes embedded in tumors, destroy liver cancer
10/30/2007 - Could 'hairy roots' become biofactories?
10/26/2007 - Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping'
10/26/2007 - Astronaut to discuss Antarctic meteorite search at Rice's Baker Institute
10/25/2007 - Rice scientists, engineer elected AAAS fellows
10/25/2007 - Astronaut to discuss Antarctic meteorite search at Rice's Baker Institute
10/25/2007 - Palestinian to discuss Middle East negotiations at Baker Institute lecture
10/24/2007 - Economist to discuss poverty, gender at Rice's Baker Institute
10/23/2007 - Baker Institute conference calls for new emphasis on science, math education in Texas
10/16/2007 - Wong makes Smithsonian magazine's prestigious '37 under 36' list
10/15/2007 - BCM, Rice scientists map flu's chemical key
10/10/2007 - Rice partnership receives National Leadership Grant
10/10/2007 - Students use designer virus to attack bacterial drug resistance
10/9/2007 - Rice University economist proposes immigration policy overhaul
10/8/2007 - Former president of India to discuss space science and technology Oct. 18 at Rice
10/4/2007 - Baker Institute conference looks at science, math education
9/28/2007 - Rice Sociologist Lindsay to discuss book on power of U.S. evangelicals
9/28/2007 - Rice unveils $100 million initiative for world health technology
9/26/2007 - U.S. ambassador to Russia to speak at Rice's Baker Institute
9/24/2007 - Scientists get first look at nanotubes inside living animals
9/24/2007 -
Research at Rice may help explain aspects of synesthesia
9/18/2007 - Chao Foundation pledges $15 million to Rice for Asian studies
9/12/2007 - Taxol® bristle ball: a wrench in the works for cancer
9/6/2007 - Embryonic stem cells used to grow cartilage
9/4/2007 - Rice, Nanyang Tech collaborate on sustainable nanoelectronics
8/23/2007 - New cancer weapon: nuclear nanocapsules
8/21/2007 - Rice announces $30M gift, plans for 'greenest' building yet
8/16/2007 - Special journal issue examines gender consequences of China's market reform
8/13/2007 - Which came first, the moth or the cactus?
7/30/2007 - Zebrafish research points way to answers about human development
7/19/2007 - Protein pulling: Learning how proteins fold by pulling them apart
7/17/2007 - Renovation of Autry Court begins
7/5/2007 - Amoebae control cheating by keeping it in the family
6/29/2007 - Rice's institute attracts teachers from around the globe
6/28/2007 - Rice will establish Institute for Chinese Language Teaching
6/26/2007 - Biotech breakthrough could end biodiesel's glycerin glut
6/22/2007 - Rice to welcome Owls back home from World Series at 2 p.m. at Reckling Park
6/22/2007 - Former Jones School dean Gil Whitaker dies at age 75
6/20/2007 - Texas establishes severe storm research center
6/7/2007 - Nanotube flickering reveals single-molecule rendezvous
6/7/2007 - President of Rice University to speak in Kerrville June 15
6/6/2007 - Rice receives $10 million to establish Houston's only art history doctoral program
6/4/2007 - Rice students chronicling Africa trip online
5/30/2007 - XO-3b: Supersized planet or oasis in the 'brown dwarf desert'?
5/25/2007 - Rice's new high-tech utility plant casts 'green' shadow
5/23/2007 - Quasicrystals: somewhere between order and disorder
5/17/2007 - Author, historian Douglas Brinkley to join Rice faculty
5/17/2007 - Torch Run for Special Olympics in Texas begins at Rice U. at 7:30 a.m. May 22
5/14/2007 - Peterson named director of alumni affairs and university events at Rice
5/11/2007 - Rice co-hosts premier physics conference
5/11/2007 - Making plasmas in the deepest of deep freezes
5/2/2007 - Quantum dot recipe may lead to cheaper solar panels
5/1/2007 - Study: 'wrapping' Gleevec® fights drug-resistant cancer
4/30/2007 - BCM, Rice make major advance in structural biology
4/24/2007 - Rice tops Princeton Review’s best-value list of private colleges
4/23/2007 - Bucky's brother: the boron buckyball makes its debut
4/18/2007 - Twenty-six Rice Owls earn C-USA Commissioner’s Medal
4/18/2007 - C-USA Commissioner's honor roll includes 182 Rice Owls
4/5/2007 - Rice mourns loss of student
4/3/2007 - Farmer’s Market moving to Rice University campus April 3
4/3/2007 - Rice student simplifies search for 'ice that burns'
3/30/2007 - Three graduate specialties at Rice University rank among top 10 nationally
3/30/2007 - Annual study finds Houstonians more anxious about crime, immigration and inequality – but more ready to address them
3/29/2007 - Zeidenstein appointed VP for resource development at Rice University
3/28/2007 - Eighty-four Rice students elected future Phi Beta Kappa members
3/23/2007 - Simulated populations used to probe gene mapping
3/22/2007 - Nano coalition launches virtual journal on risk research
3/22/2007 - Houston National College Fair planned for April 15
3/15/2007 - Presidents of Chinese universities to attend leadership forum at Rice University
3/13/2007 - Rice University is fourth on Kiplinger’s list of best values among private universities
3/9/2007 - Legacy of the hacienda and the plantation on history, politics and culture in the Americas will be discussed March 23-24 at Rice
3/9/2007 - Finding by Rice University chemists could aid development of new nanodevices
3/9/2007 - Ancient philosophy on science and medicine to be discussed
3/6/2007 - Gilroy to lecture on ‘Race and the Right to be Human’ March 28 at Rice
2/20/2007 - Rice sets tuition rates for 2007-08
2/15/2007 - Nanotube, heal thyself
2/15/2007 - Quantum effects writ large
2/12/2007 - Keck gives Rice $1.4M to probe quantum matter
2/7/2007 - $7 million gift from Tudors jump-starts renovation of gymnasium at Rice University
2/7/2007 - Rice mourns the loss of Ken Kennedy
1/30/2007 - Asian and Asian-American film festival at Rice to feature four movies
1/29/2007 - Does evolution select for faster evolvers?
1/18/2007 - Rice breakthrough could prevent multiple fibrotic diseases
1/18/2007 - Buckyballs used as 'passkey' into cancer cells
1/18/2007 - Rice biochemists find genetic flaw starts biochemical domino effect
1/10/2007 - Rice University to build child-care center
1/10/2007 - Two national business leaders join Rice board
1/8/2007 - Rice's Drezek wins $3M grant for breast cancer research
1/5/2007 - Rice's Mikos honored as one of Texas' best researchers
1/4/2007 - Study: Repetitive motion speeds nanoparticle uptake
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