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Illustration by Darren Booth
The Experimentalist

Yousif Shamoo in his own words...

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Illustration by Thumy Phan
A Prototyping Year Pays Off

A COVID-19 saliva test invented by Rice bioengineers paves the way for testing in low-resource settings....

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Rice Coffeehouse
Back at It

Rice Coffeehouse adapts to life in the pandemic....

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The No. 25 ranked soccer team celebrates its C-USA Championship win April 17, 2021, earning a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Photo by Tommy LaVergne
They Persisted

Female student athletes pivot to safely compete, win and set school records....

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Rice Public Art
Art Aptitude

Students design a campus art-finding app....

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Ice Caps
Syllabus: A Climate Change Toolbox

Through the study of Earth’s climate variations and how they affected human evolution and history, this course helps students judge the anomalous character of recent climate change...

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To Thine Online Self Be True

“Hello, Hamlet!” continues its quadrennial run with an entirely prerecorded rendition available to stream....

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Sid Richardson College. Photo by Brandon Martin
New Sid on the Block

Under construction since 2019, the new residential college building welcomed Sidizens under continued pandemic protocols....

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Reader Response: Winter 2021

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Rice students playing volleyball on campus
An Engine of Opportunity

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Maria Failla with leaf over face
Rooting For You

For Maria Failla, the plant show must go on....

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Spain’s Camino de Santiago
Alumni Books: Q&A with Julie Gianelloni Connor

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Mars landscape illustration
We Don't Know - What Mars May Reveal About Earth's Beginnings

Planetary geologist Kirsten Siebach is part of the team operating the Perseverance rover on Mars....

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Merinda Watkins-Martin ’91
Serving Up Success

Kindness is always on the menu at Lemond Kitchen....

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Powerlines during winter 2021 freeze
The Explainer: The Big Freeze

We asked Daniel Cohan, who studies air, climate and energy at Rice, to explain what factors led to February’s cascading power failures in the wake of extreme winter cold....

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Faculty Books
Now Reading: Faculty Books

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greenhouse gas
Catalyzing Change

Researchers transform a greenhouse gas into valuable acetic acid....

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Climate change toolbox
Syllabus: A Climate Change Toolbox

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Landscape photo at Big Bend
Books, Big Bend, Van Life and a Wedding

Excerpts from Owlmanac...

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Campus Scene: On the Way

A moment in time on campus...

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Photo by Tommy LaVergne
Planted in Place

From a seed of an idea, a major new addition to the Houston landscape has blossomed along Sims Bayou, turning an underutilized golf course into 132 acres of ecosystems, horticultur...

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Illustration by Israel Vargas
Imagined Worlds Made Real

An author and bioengineer explores real-life biomedical advances first imagined in the realm of science fiction....

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Douglas Brinkley
Today's Lesson

Whether in a Rice classroom or via his work as a public scholar, U.S. presidential historian Douglas Brinkley draws from America’s past to illuminate the crises of the moment....

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Photo by Jeff Fitlow
Remembering Rothko

The Moody Center for the Arts celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel....

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