Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution Scott Solomon (Yale University Press, 2016)
Modern humans aren’t an evolutionary end point, posits Scott Solomon, a professor in …
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Videographer Brandon Martin accompanied Rice Earth Science Professor André Droxler and graduate students to Belize’s coast to study coral reef health. The field trip was a part of a graduate level …
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Geoffrey Herd
GRADUATE STUDENT
SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Herd is a violinist and the founder and director of the Geneva Music Festival, who has performed throughout Asia and Latin America. …
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THIS IS GENIUS: SEPT. 22 WAS A RED-LETTER DAY ON CAMPUS. That’s when the news broke that Rice bioengineer and global health pioneer Rebecca Richards-Kortum had received a MacArthur …
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Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Part philosophical treatise, part historical account and part lyric essay, “Dark Ecology” offers …
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JAMES MATTHEWS Graduate Student Department of Physics
Matthews analyzes molecular structure using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to study protein misfolding and insertion into biological membranes in …
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THE ROSS ICE SHELF’S HISTORIC LESSONS
Texas Ranch Yields Ancient Reef
When you survey the cliffs overlooking the Llano River in Central Texas, it’s hard to imagine that they were underwater a half-billion years ago and …
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