#rice-university — Public Fediverse posts

Hype for the Future 162L: The Museums of Greater Houston

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/hype-for-the-future-162l-the-museums-of-greater-houston/

Fragmentation of the Narrative: Measuring Black Perspectives on American Race

Rice University study shows Black Americans have varied views on race, with 'racial realism' being a strong, long-term outlook. Learn how this affects their views.

#BlackPerspectives, #RacialRealism, #Sociology, #RiceUniversity, #USNews

https://newsletter.tf/rice-university-black-perspectives-on-race-study/

A new study shows that 80% of Black adults see racist portrayals in news media, showing a big difference between what news says and what people feel.

#BlackPerspectives, #RacialRealism, #Sociology, #RiceUniversity, #USNews
https://newsletter.tf/rice-university-black-perspectives-on-race-study/

💡💻 A #RiceUniversity graduate student realized that Thomas #Edison's original 1879 carbon-filament light bulbs were actually the perfect tools for making graphene.

By studying century-old patents, researchers found a way to reach the extreme temperatures needed to create this "miracle material" for #quantum #physics and next-gen computing.

👉 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70250188/miracle-computing-material-thomas-edison/

💁🏻‍♀️✨ Inside the West Orange lab of Thomas Edison https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/thomas-edison-lab-west-orange

#history #edison #science #innovation #engineering #tech #technology #discovery #future #research

Data visualization tool by kids at my Alma mater #RiceUniversity

#Ice Map #IceMap

#Houston Chronicle wrote about it:
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/rice-students-ice-map-21319887.php

Tool here:

https://www.icemap.dev/

Edison wyprzedził Noblistów o 130 lat? W jego żarówkach powstawał grafen, ale nikt go nie widział

Grafen. Supermateriał XXI wieku, za którego odkrycie przyznano Nagrodę Nobla w 2010 roku. Jest w prototypach baterii, filtrach i marzeniach o futurystycznej elektronice. Okazuje się, że Thomas Edison produkował go seryjnie już w 1879 roku. Tylko o tym nie wiedział.

Eksperyment z przeszłości

Naukowcy z Rice University postanowili zabawić się w „archeologów chemii”. Zamiast wymyślać nowe metody syntezy, sięgnęli po patent Thomasa Edisona numer 223898 z 1880 roku. Edison, szukając idealnego materiału na żarnik do swojej żarówki, eksperymentował ze wszystkim – od tektury po… bambus. I to właśnie zwęglony bambus okazał się strzałem w dziesiątkę, świecąc przez ponad 1200 godzin.

Lucas Eddy, doktorant z Rice, odtworzył ten proces w laboratorium. Kupił rzemieślnicze żarówki z bambusowym włóknem (tak, można takie dostać w Nowym Jorku) i potraktował je prądem, dokładnie tak jak robił to słynny wynalazca.

Srebrzysty ślad

Metoda, którą nieświadomie stosował Edison, to dziś tzw. „flash Joule heating”. Polega ona na błyskawicznym (rzędu kilkunastu sekund) podgrzaniu węgla do temperatury 3000 stopni Celsjusza.

Gdy Eddy spojrzał na wynik pod nowoczesnym mikroskopem elektronowym, zobaczył coś niezwykłego. Zwęglony bambus nie był tylko czarnym węglem. Miejscami pokrywał go „lustrzany, srebrzysty nalot”. Analiza spektroskopowa potwierdziła: to grafen turbostratyczny.

Dlaczego Edison przegapił Nobla?

Odpowiedź jest prosta: brak narzędzi. Grafen to warstwa węgla o grubości jednego atomu. W 1879 roku nikt nie dysponował mikroskopem, który pozwoliłby go dostrzec. Zresztą nie był też Nagród Nobla, Alfred Nobel swój testament spisał w 1895 roku, a pierwsze Noble trafiły do laureatów w 1901 roku. Wracając do Edisona, dla niego był to po prostu „efekt uboczny” procesu zwęglania. Co więcej, gdyby te żarówki świeciły dłużej, grafen i tak zamieniłby się z powrotem w zwykły grafit, bo w wysokiej temperaturze i przy długiej pracy warstwy węgla zaczynają się ponownie układać w strukturę objętościową.

Wnioski na przyszłość

Odkrycie z Rice University to coś więcej niż ciekawostka historyczna. Pokazuje, że w starych technologiach – lampach łukowych, pierwszych lampach rentgenowskich czy telegrafach – mogą kryć się odpowiedzi na współczesne problemy inżynierii materiałowej. Czasem wystarczy po prostu spojrzeć na stare patenty przez nowe mikroskopy.

Grawitacja (a raczej jej brak) zmienia położenie mózgu. Nowe badania ostrzeżeniem przed misją na Marsa

🎉 Breaking news: Scientists have finally discovered that physics can actually improve things! Who knew? 🤯 Meanwhile, Rice University continues its unparalleled streak of creating headlines that sound like the opening crawl from a sci-fi film. 🚀
https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/sharper-mri-scans-may-be-horizon-thanks-new-physics-based-model #BreakingNews #SciencePhysics #Innovation #RiceUniversity #SciFiHeadlines #HackerNews #ngated

Dean Connors spent the last three football seasons at Rice University. Now he plays for the University of Houston. That will add a twist to Saturday's Bayou Bucket game, which could be the rivals' last meeting for a while.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/sports/2025/09/05/530151/bayou-bucket-university-of-houston-running-back-to-face-former-teammates-at-rice-in-rivalry-game/

#Houston #Local #News #Sports #BayouBucket #DeanConnors #RiceStadium #RiceUniversity #UHAthletics #UniversityOfHoustonFootball

Rice University political scientist Robert M. “Bob” Stein died Friday, July 18, at the age of 75.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/obituary/2025/07/21/526856/rice-university-political-scientist-robert-m-bob-stein-dies-at-75/

#Education #EducationNews #Elections #News #Obituary #Politics #Voting #BakerInstituteForPublicPolicy #LeadershipEducation #RiceUniversity #UrbanPolitics

The cost of housing in the Houston area has continued to grow for both renters and homeowners, while income levels struggle to keep up, according to a new study by Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2025/06/18/524353/houston-housing-costs-are-increasing-kinder-institute-study-finds/

#Economy #Finances #HarrisCounty #Housing #Houston #Local #News #HoustonHousing #HoustonIncome #HoustonRealEstateMarket #HoustonRentals #KinderInstituteForUrbanResearch #RiceUniversity

A recently released survey shows that about 45% of Harris County residents could not come up with $400 for an unexpected emergency, signaling a significant level of financial insecurity in the Houston region.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/finances/2025/06/09/523502/45-of-harris-county-residents-say-they-couldnt-pay-for-a-400-emergency-study-finds/

#Economy #Finances #FortBend #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #FinancialSecurity #FinancialStruggle #HoustonFinances #KinderHoustonAreaSurvey #KinderInstituteForUrbanResearch #RiceUniversity

A Rice University political science professor recently expressed concerns about the forthcoming Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office -- also known as the state's version of "DOGE."

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/05/12/521091/texas-version-of-doge-could-increase-governors-power-rice-university-professor-says/

#Business #HoustonMatters #News #Politics #Texas #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #DOGE #GovernorGregAbbott #RiceUniversity #TexasDOGE #TexasRegulatoryEfficiencyOffice

The Trump administration is reinstating student visa records for an undisclosed number of international students whose legal status was changed over the last few weeks. Among those to have their visas restored are students at Rice and UH.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/04/28/519989/rice-university-of-houston-confirm-reinstatements-as-trump-admin-restores-student-visa-records/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Immigration #Local #News #Texas #Deportation #Government #HigherEducation #RiceUniversity #UniversityOfHouston #Visas

New DFloat11 Technique Offers 30% Lossless Compression for LLMs, Easing Hardware Demands

#AI #AIResearch #DFloat11 #LLMs #LLMcompression #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #BF16 #Inference #RiceUniversity #xMADai

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/27/new-dfloat11-technique-offers-30-lossless-compression-for-llms-easing-hardware-demands-xcxwbn/

Rice University has announced a strategic plan to expand its student population by nearly 30% by 2028.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/04/22/519389/rice-university-announces-strategic-plan-to-expand-student-population-by-nearly-30-percent/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #News #HigherEducation #HoustonUniversities #RiceUniversity #RiceUniversityGrowth

Harvard Gazette: SlaveVoyages finds new home at Harvard. “SlaveVoyages was the result of nearly four decades of scholarly contributions, with researchers from multiple institutions working painstakingly to digitize handwritten records from archives worldwide. Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/18/harvard-gazette-slavevoyages-finds-new-home-at-harvard/

More Houston-area residents than not are against using state funds to pay for Texas students’ private school tuition, according to a study released this week by Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/04/03/517739/slight-majority-of-houstonians-against-school-vouchers-kinder-institute-study-finds/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #News #Politics #GovGregAbbott #KinderInstitute #PrivateSchoolVouchers #RiceUniversity #TexasLegislature #TexasSchoolVouchers

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into Houston's Rice University and 44 other U.S. institutions surrounding claims they discriminate against students by using racial preferences and stereotypes.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/03/14/516034/rice-university-under-federal-investigation-for-alleged-race-exclusionary-practices/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #National #News #DEI #EducationInvestigation #RiceUniversity #TexasUniversities #USDepartmentOfEducation

About one-third of Harris County residents said they could “sustain themselves on savings alone for 3 months or more,” according to a new study by Rice University's Kinder Institute.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/finances/2025/01/13/510692/study-two-thirds-of-houstonians-considered-not-financially-secure/

#Finances #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #FinancialSecurity #HoustonIncome #KinderInstituteForUrbanResearch #RiceUniversity #UnitedWayOfGreaterHouston

A Rice University student was named one of 32 U.S. recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship— and the only Texas student to receive the award this year.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2024/11/18/506443/rice-university-student-awarded-prestigious-rhodes-scholarship/

#Education #EducationNews #News #HoustonStudents #RhodesScholarship #RiceStudents #RiceUniversity

Several years after the state legislature revamped pre-K programs across Texas, research shows pre-K can help prepare Houston-area children for elementary school.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2024/11/12/505838/houston-area-pre-k-programs-benefit-students-studies-find/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #News #HoustonPreK #HoustonPreKindergarten #KinderInstituteForUrbanResearch #RiceUniversity #TexasHouseBill3

Ominous messages from the past. #Houston #riceuniversity

A Rice University study has found that victims of a hate crime in Harris County are not likely to tell police because they believe nothing will be done.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2024/10/02/501710/hate-crimes-harris-county-police-report/

#Crime #HarrisCounty #Local #News #FederalHateCrimeLaws #HateCrimesInTexas #HoustonPoliceDepartment #HoustonPopulationResearchCenter #RiceUniversity #RiceUniversityKinderInstituteForUrbanResearch

In their first game of the season, Rice University Owls on Saturday will sport helmet decals in honor of Andrea Rodriguez Avila, a pre-law student who was murdered in her dorm room earlier this week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2024/08/30/498332/rice-university-owls-to-sport-helmet-decals-saturday-in-honor-of-slain-student/

#Education #News #Sports #CollegeFootball #Rice #RiceOwls #RiceUniversity

Rice University apparent murder-suicide highlights deadly link between guns and domestic violence

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2024/08/28/498003/rice-university-apparent-murder-suicide-highlights-deadly-link-between-guns-and-domestic-violence/

#Crime #Houston #Local #News #PublicSafety #DomesticViolence #HoustonAreaWomenSCenter #RiceUniversity #SuspectedMurderSuicide

[Video] #Female #student #murdered at #RiceUniversity in #Texas.

A #female #student the #Texas #University was #shot and #killed on #Monday by a #man #authorities said she had been in a "#dating #relationship" with.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #HigherEducation #Femicide #Hate #Bigotry #Misogyny #GunViolence #DomesticViolence

https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/female-student-rice-university-killed-113174181