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Rate Artist Talk

Original at Rice University Events external link    Wed, Jan 27

Rice University Art Gallery Speaker: El Anatsui Friday, January 29, 2010 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM 352 Sewall Hall Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

Rate The 2010 Veritas Forum: Not For Sale

Original at Rice University Events external link    Wed, Jan 27

Student Clubs Student Activities Speaker: David Batstone Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM Shell Auditorium McNair Hall Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

Rate Rice Earth Science Seminar - Mississippi River Water Quality: Policy, Landscapes and Hypoxia

Original at Rice University Events external link    Wed, Jan 27

The appearance of the hypoxic zone off the Louisiana-Texas coast and then its variation in size reveals insights about its causes, the accumulation of carbon storage in sediments, and pelagic and sediment oxygen demand. Proxies for organic loading to sediments reveal that oxygen dema...

Rate Opening Reception for El Anatsui: Gli

Original at Rice University Events external link    Wed, Jan 27

Remarks by El Anatsui and Lisa Binder, Assistant Curator, Museum for African Art, New York at 6:00 pm. Music by Chris Spadone, host of KTRU FM's Africana Show, playing the music of Nigeria and Ghana. Free admission and paid parking nearby. On view January 28 – March 14, 2010. More information a...

Rate Scientia Institute: Complex Networks: The Key to Resilient Infrastructure Systems

Original at Rice University Events external link    Tue, Jan 26

Scientia Scientia Speaker: Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM McMurtry Auditorium Duncan Hall Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

Past Month

 

Rate Facebook Tech Talk/Resume Review

Original at Rice University Events external link    Tue, Jan 26

Facebook is coming to Rice! We're looking for undergraduate, graduate and PhD students for full-time positions and summer internships in engineering. If you're interested in learning more about job opportunities or just want to meet members of the Facebook team, you can catch us at the...

Rate Data, Models and Reality: A Noisy History of Statistics

Original at Rice University Events external link    Sat, Jan 23

Statistics Dean of Engineering Speaker: James Thompson Monday, January 25, 2010 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM McMurtry Auditorium Duncan Hall Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

Rate Digital Storytelling, a workshop

Original at Rice University Events external link    Thu, Jan 21

Digital Storytelling incorporates elements in various formats -- still photos, video, music, and narration -- to present a story of personal history or experience in a short video. It can be used to gather oral histories, narrate personal experiences, and craft stories that illuminat...

Rate The Reinvention of Tradition in Architecture in Postwar Japan

Original at Rice University Events external link    Thu, Jan 21

Yaufumi Nakamori, Assistant Curator of Photogrpahy, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will deliver a paper, focusing on the 1960 photographic publication Katsura:Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture,which was authored by the architects Tange Kenzo (1913–2005) and Wa...

Rate Opinion: Rice Earth Science Seminar - On the evolution of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets in a warming climate.

Original at Rice University Events external link    Tue, Jan 12

Earth Science Speaker: Eric Rignot Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 100 Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

December of 2009

 

Rate Texas population booms amid lean times

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Wed, Dec 23

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KATU “Growth has been the religion of Houston and Texas,” said Stephen Klineberg, a sociology professor at Rice University. “That's a measure of our virtue and ... Texas leads nation in population growthSan Antonio Express all 988 news articles »

Rate Rice Earth Science Seminar - "Slabs attached to unsubducted fragments of the Farallon plate"

Original at Rice University Events external link    Tue, Dec 22

Earth Science Speaker: Eric Rigno Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 100 Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

Rate Budget cuts likely on the horizon for Rice

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Sun, Dec 20

The residential colleges at Rice University — that's Rice-speak for dormitories — have gone dark for the holidays, closing over the winter ...

Rate Community colleges drawing top students

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Sun, Dec 20

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and Hirsch plans to transfer to the University of Houston. Other students are looking at Columbia University, Rice University and Oxford University. ...

Rate Houston Friends of Music

Original at Rice University Events external link    Sat, Dec 19

Program: Bartók - Quartet No. 2, Op. 17; Webern - Langsamer Satz; and Schumann - Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 41. 8:00 p.m., Stude Concert Hall Admission (reserved eating): $19-$65. For tickets call 713-348-5400. Limited number of complimentary tickets for Rice faculty, staff and students.

Rate Teach For America coming to San Antonio

Original at Bizjournals.com external link    Mon, Dec 14

They were selected from a record pool of 35000 applicants, including seniors from Ivy League schools, as well as Rice University and the University of Texas ... and more »

November of 2009

 

Rate TCU to increase annual tuition to $30000

Original at Star-Telegram.com external link    Mon, Nov 16

Other private, selective schools in Texas, such as Southern Methodist University in Dallas and Rice University in Houston have not set their tuition for ... and more »

Rate Presidents of UNT, UTA and UT-Dallas to push for Tier One status

Original at Star-Telegram.com external link    Sun, Nov 15

In Texas, the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University in College Station and Rice University in Houston are considered major research schools. ...

Rate People in business

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Sat, Nov 14

Wise is president of Rice Management Co. at Rice University. Zimmerman is CEO and chief investment officer at the University of Texas Investment Management ...

Rate Rice-Baylor merger would help Houston and Texas

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Thu, Nov 12

This article was written by Rice University professors Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering; John McDevitt, Brown-Wiess ... Editorial: Proposition Four is great addition to research, stateBaylor University The Lariat Online all 2 news articles »

Rate Q&A with $1 billion lawyer Harry Reasoner

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Sun, Nov 8

Q&A with $1 billion lawyer Harry Reasoner Attended Rice University, where he majored in philosophy. • 1962: Graduated first in his class at the University of Texas Law School, then went on to study ...

Rate Rice Earth Science Seminar- "Thermal and Chemical Evolution of Earth's Deep Interior: The New Paradigm"

Original at Rice University Events external link    Thu, Nov 5

Earth Science Speaker: Dr. John Hernlund Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 AM Room 100 Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

October of 2009

 

Rate Opinion: Abdo S. Yazbeck, Lead Health Economist and Program Leader of the Health and AIDS Program at the World Bank Institute, to discuss a new landmark report on health disparities at Rice University

Original at Rice University Events external link    Tue, Oct 27

Robin Sickles Economics Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Speaker: Abdo S. Yazbeck Friday, October 30, 2009 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM 116 Baker Hall Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

Rate Rice Earth Science Thursday Seminar - "Glaciers Limit the Height of Mountains: Clues about this 'snow buzzsaw' from glaciers that touch the sea"

Original at Rice University Events external link    Thu, Oct 8

Earth Science Speaker: Dr. Bernard Hallet Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room 100 Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

Rate Opinion: STORMS IN SPACE: Insights from Numerical Simulations

Original at Rice University Events external link    Tue, Oct 6

The Earth’s magnetosphere is a highly dynamic, coupled nonlinear system that is essentially a large plasma physics laboratory. The primary energy source of the magnetosphere is the Sun through its interaction with the solar wind, but it also interacts with, and in many ways is controll...

Year 2009

 

Rate What was here? 7575 Kirby edition

Original at Houstonist external link    Mon, Jun 29

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By Lauren Glennlee You may have noticed the condominiums on the northeast corner of Kirby at North Braeswood - 7575 Kirby and the Brentwood directly behind it - or if you're like us, you probably noticed the smell more than anything. Anyhow, this corner of prime real estate used to be really prime wat...

Rate Texas thinks big about adding casino gambling - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Thu, Apr 9

Texas Tech University, Baylor University and Healthcare System, Rice University, Texas Christian University, University of Houston System, SMU, University of North Texas, Trinity College, and many smaller accredited colleges and universities. ...

Rate Opinion: FDA to speed nanomedical product creation

Original at United Press International external link    Tue, Mar 10

The alliance's eight academic institutions are the Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Texas' MD Anderson Cancer Center, Rice University, the University of Houston, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas A & M Health ...

Rate Unconstrained Networking Research

Original at Rice University Events external link    Thu, Feb 26

Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice Networks Group Dean of Engineering Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology Speaker: Supranamaya Ranjan Monday, March 9, 2009 12:00 to 13:00 1049 Duncan Hall Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

Rate QUANTUM RIGIDITY : What Is It and How Is It Lost - Application to High Temperature Superconductivity

Original at Rice University Events external link    Wed, Feb 18

Physics & Astronomy Speaker: Vivek Aji Wednesday, February 25, 2009 16:00 to 17:00 210 Herzstein Hall (Physics Lab) Rice University 6100 Main St Houston,Texas,USA

Rate Podcast: 24 Oct 2008: A Molecular View of Model Membranes

Original at Rice University Webcasts external link    Wed, Jan 28

Manolis Doxastakis Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Houston Keck Seminar Friday, October 24, 2008 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 102 Keck Hall Rice University 6100 Main St Houston, Texas, USA

Rate Podcast: 22 Jan 2009: Bridge 2 Rwanda: Creating Tomorrow's Leaders to Transform a Nation

Original at Rice University Webcasts external link    Fri, Jan 23

The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Beyond Traditional Borders, Rice 360�, and the World Affairs Council of Houston is hosting Dale Dawson, the founder and CEO of Dallas-based relief agency Bridge2Rwanda. He will deliver a talk at Rice University titled �Creating Tomorro...

Rate Podcast: 21 Jan 2009: The Language of God: Intellectual Reflections of a Christian Geneticist

Original at Rice University Webcasts external link    Thu, Jan 22

The Veritas Forum at Rice Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Shell Auditorium Jones School Rice University 6100 Main St Houston, Texas, USA Join us as Dr. Francis Collins, world-renown geneticist, physician, and Former Director of the National Human Genome Research Institu...

Rate Campus and Community Blood Drive

Original at Rice University Events external link    Tue, Jan 20

The next campus blood drives are tomorrow and Thursday (January 21 and 22) in the Rice Memorial Center (RMC) Grand Hall. Rice University participates with the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center as a "Commit For Life" partner. Through this relationship, Rice University sponsors 4 blood dri...

Year 2008

 

Rate Opinion: Pitt beats Penn State in home town affordability

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Sat, Nov 29

 PA - Nov 29, 2008 Others in the top 10 are the University of Houston, $158412; Rice University, also in Houston, $158412; the University of Louisiana Monroe, Monroe, $166109; ...

Rate Podcast: 01 Dec 2008: Rice Faculty Members Talk About Audience Response Systems

Original at Rice University Webcasts external link    Wed, Nov 19

As Rice University continues to evaluate solutions for a campus wide deployment of audience response systems, we set out to talk with faculty members and students that currently use ARS in the classroom. This video shows Dr. Paul Padley (Physics and Astronomy), and Dr. Rachel Kimbro (Soci...

Rate Podcast: 18 Oct 2008: 2008 Sally Ride Festival: Reach for the Stars!

Original at Rice University Webcasts external link    Mon, Oct 20

Reach for the Stars! Sally Ride Science Festival Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM Engineering Quadrangle Rice University 6100 Main St Houston, Texas, USA Sally Ride Science Festival returns to Rice with a street fair, keynote speaker, and workshops. Designed for middle-s...

Rate Opinion: Rice professor named top innovator

Original at Bizjournals.com external link    Wed, Aug 20

 NC - Farinaz Koushanfar, Rice University assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named to MIT Technology Review magazine’s list of ...

Rate Princeton Review recognizes Rice University

Original at KHOU external link    Thu, Jul 31

 TX - Rice ranks second in the nation for best quality of life and interaction among students of different race and class. The publication also ranked rice 15 th ...

Rate Opinion: Crews Tear Down Dozens of Trees on Kirby Drive

Original at MyFox Houston external link    Tue, Jul 29

 TX - Jul 29, 2008 But on the campus of Rice University, architectural historian Stephen Fox disagrees. He sees the project as an example of what he calls Houston's poor ... Princeton Review recognizes Rice University KHOU all 42 news articles

Rate Opinion: 10 Great Colleges and Universities for Under $25000

Original at Edu in Review external link    Tue, Jul 22

By Naomi 3. Rice University, Houston, Texas. All right, this is cheating a little bit, a year of tuition at Rice will run you $25606 a year. But since The Princeton Review calls Rice the #1 Best Value Private College in the United States, ...

Rate Tips for getting new ID linked to missing Rice student

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Tue, Jul 1

 United States - By DANE SCHILLER California police found books and notes on how to assume a new identity when they searched the abandoned car of a Rice University student ...

Rate How To: OWL-Space Best Practice Lunch and Learn

Original at Rice University Events external link    Wed, Jan 9

Rice University 6100 Main St Houston, Texas, USA A look at how to get the most out of your OWL-Space for course management and collaborations. Find out what students want to see in OWL-Space course sites; collect tips and tricks, ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Opinion: More on the revived Rice University Press

Original at Open Access News external link    Tue, Jul 31

By Peter Suber Some of the books Rice will publish, after they went through peer review elsewhere, will be grouped together as “The Long Tail Press.” In addition, Rice University Press and Stanford University Press are planning an unusual collaboration in which Rice will be publishing a series of book...

Rate Author Douglas Brinkley leaving New Orleans to teach at Rice - Houston Chronicle

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Wed, May 16

Author Douglas Brinkley leaving New Orleans to teach at Rice  TX - critical look at the government response to Hurricane Katrina, is leaving Tulane University to become a tenured professor at Rice University in Houston. ...

Rate Catching up with Vincent Sinisi

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Tue, May 15

By Brian McTaggart(brian.mctaggart@chron.com) Vincent Sinisi, the former The Woodlands High and Rice University star, has returned to Texas, if only for a few days. Sinisi is the right fielder of the Portland Beavers, the Class AAA affiliate of the San Diego Padres. The... Vincent Sinisi, the former The Woodlands High and Rice University s...

Rate World's Longest Nanotubes

Original at Medgadget.com external link    Tue, May 1

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By Michael Years of effort by UC researchers Vesselin Shanov and Mark Schulz, co-directors of the University of Cincinnati Smart Materials Nanotechnology Laboratory, along with Yun YeoHeung and students, led to the invention of the method for growing long nanotube arrays. Employing this inven...

Rate BYU falls from Princeton Review's list of best-value colleges

Original at Salt Lake Tribune external link    Tue, Apr 24

By webmaster@sltrib.com (The Salt Lake Tribune wire services) Posted: 12:22 PM- By Brian K. Sullivan Bloomberg News     Rice University and New College of Florida topped the lists of the Princeton Review Inc.

Rate Princeton Review Names America's 'Best Value' Colleges in Annual Book:

Original at PR Inside (Pressemitteilung) external link    Tue, Apr 24

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK, April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewsire/ -- According to The Princeton Review, Rice University is the nation's 'best value' private college, while New College of Florida is (for the second consecutive year) the 'best value' public college. The schools hold #1 spots on...

Year 2005

 

Rate (BW) Energy Solutions Enhances Sales & Marketing Teams

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Mon, Dec 12

BW) Energy Solutions Enhances Sales & Marketing Teams  United States - undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Houston and holds a Masters of Business Administration from Rice University. ...

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