National articles about Rice University http://www.rice.edu The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today committed four years' worth of funding for an innovative biomedical training program between Rice University and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. 11/17/09 The Rice lab of physicist Tom Killian published a paper online this month demonstrating the long-sought creation of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of strontium atoms. BEC is a state of matter predicted by early 20th-century physicists Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein. Basically, at extremely cold temperatures, some types of atoms come to almost a complete standstill and enter a state in which they lose their individual identity. 11/17/09 Pediatricians and pediatric oncologists express differing views on religion and spirituality, largely based on the types of patients they treat, according to a survey that will appear in the current edition of the journal Social Problems. 11/11/09 In all the world, there are about 200 types of zeolite, a compound of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent, kitty litter and gasoline. But thanks to computations by Rice University professor Michael Deem and his colleagues, it appears there are -- or could be -- more types of zeolites than once thought. 11/02/09 Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy will provide an opportunity to interview four or five of the leading diplomats involved directly in the reunification of Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall via a live teleconference at 5 p.m. CDT Friday, Oct. 30. 10/23/09 Suppose you had a disease for which there's a proven cure, but nobody makes the drug. Where do you turn? That's a question many around the world face every day and one Rice University students hope to answer by reaching out through the Internet. 10/20/09 A new study from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business finds that Americans who believe in equality are more-impulsive shoppers. And it has implications for how to market products differently in countries where shoppers are more likely to buy on impulse. 10/20/09 New research from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business shows that the diversity of foreign invested firms’ national origin helps businesses in China benefit from foreign direct investment (FDI). 10/19/09 On July 20, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, NASA honored President John F. Kennedy with an Ambassador of Exploration Award for his vision and leadership in landing a man on the moon. The Kennedy family has selected Rice University to house and publicly display the award, a lunar sample, at Fondren Library. 10/07/09 During an already-scheduled speech at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy today, Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi commented on the deadly suicide attack that killed five people at the World Food Program headquarters in Islamabad this morning. Please credit Rice University’s Baker Institute when appropriate. 10/05/09 On the eve of the 45th anniversary of the executive order establishing the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, D. Michael Lindsay, Rice University sociology professor and Baker Institute for Public Policy scholar, today released the results from a yearlong study. 10/02/09 U.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion of California's famed San Andreas Fault. The results, which appear this week in the journal Nature, suggest that the Earth's largest earthquakes can weaken fault zones worldwide and may trigger periods of increased global seismic activity. 09/30/09 Cheaters may prosper in the short term, but over time they seem doomed to fail, at least in the microscopic world of amoebas where natural selection favors the noble. 09/30/09 Rice University President David Leebron and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Edmonton, Alberta, today that will lead to greener energy production through advances in nanotechnology. 09/21/09 Rice University has joined 35 other major research universities to launch www.futurity.org, a site dedicated to sharing research breakthroughs directly with the public in an era when the Internet and digital communications complement traditional news outlets. 09/17/09 A new Rice University study shows that the city of Houston’s SafeClear program to remove disabled vehicles reduces 120 fewer auto accidents per month and has resulted in monthly cost savings of $4 million to the driving public. 09/14/09 Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite’s potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could bring about a revolution in integrated circuit logic design. 09/09/09 As manufacturers work furiously to make a vaccine to protect against 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus, a Rice University bioengineer is trying to improve the process for future flu seasons. 09/08/09 A new policy paper by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy shows a clear increase in the size and influence of noncommercial traders, or "speculators," in the oil futures market since regulations were eased. 08/27/09 When the nose encounters two different scents simultaneously, the brain processes them separately through each nostril in an alternating fashion. 08/20/09 As California prepares to become the first state in the nation to offer free, open-source digital textbooks for high school students this fall, state officials today gave an A-plus to a North Carolina high school teacher's algebra II textbook, one of the first open-source texts submitted for the program. 08/11/09 In a paper published this month in Nano Research, Hauge's Rice University team describes a method for making “odako,” bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) named for the traditional Japanese kites they resemble. It may lead to a way to produce meter-long strands of nanotubes, which by themselves are no wider than a piece of DNA. 07/29/09 Rice University ranks No. 1 nationally for "best quality of life" in the newly released 2010 edition of Princeton Review’s popular guidebook "The Best 371 Colleges." 07/28/09 A new study released by Rice University in Houston finds that California newspapers located closer to the border of Mexico routinely provide a more negative slant on immigration in general news reporting and on their opinion pages than the state’s newspapers located further away from the border. 07/28/09 Scientists at Rice University and North Carolina State University have found a method of attaching molecules to semiconducting silicon that may help manufacturers reach beyond the current limits of Moore's Law as they make microprocessors both smaller and more powerful. 07/23/09 Researchers at Rice University and their international colleagues have for the first time described the atomic structure of the protein shell that carries the genetic code of hepatitis E (HEV). Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could mean that new ways to stop the virus may come in the not-too-distant future. 07/21/09 Rice University today was awarded $11.1 million in federal stimulus funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for construction of the Brockman Hall for Physics, a new research facility. 07/21/09 No one knows exactly how much Earth's climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study this week suggests scientists' best predictions about global warming might be incorrect. 07/14/09 In a newly published paper, Dunham offers a new theory for one of primatology's long-standing mysteries: Why are male and female lemurs the same size? 07/14/09 Rice University team device could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of hand injuries and neurological disorders, specifically carpal tunnel syndrome. 07/07/09 Rice University has joined 32 other major research universities to launch www.futurity.org, a site dedicated to sharing research breakthroughs directly with the public in an era when traditional news outlets are rapidly shrinking. The site reports on discoveries in science, health, society and culture. 06/18/09 This week a group of Rice University students departed Houston to embark upon a month-long artistic and educational outreach trip to a small ghost town in the heart of Mexico. 06/18/09 Extending health insurance coverage to all children in the U.S. would be relatively inexpensive and would yield economic benefits that are greater than the costs, according to new research conducted at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. 06/16/09 Rice University scientists warned that the United States must be careful that the new emphasis on developing biofuels as an alternative to imported oil takes into account potential damage to the nation's water resources. 06/12/09 Rice University students are spreading warmth around the world as they bring their plans for the Hot Cot – a low-cost warming crib for neonatal care – to developing nations this summer. *contains B-roll 06/09/09 The Rice University-based International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) today introduced the GoodNanoGuide, an online, community-driven wiki for information about the safe handling of nanomaterials. 06/01/09 Rice University researchers today announced that the first field tests of "nanorust," the university's revolutionary, low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year in Guanajuato, Mexico. 05/27/09 Rice University's Andrew Barron and his group, working with labs in Italy, Germany and Greece, have identified specific molecules that could block the means by which the deadly virus spreads by taking away its ability to bind with other proteins. 05/19/09 A team of recent Rice University graduates has invented a device to accurately measure hand-muscle strength, and they hope it will win a major engineering prize next month. 05/19/09 Texans often think everything's bigger in the Lone Star State, but Rice University is challenging the notion. The elite private university this month won more than $9 million in research grants from the Department of Defense, or about 3.5 percent of the total funding awarded under the department's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program. 05/18/09 Rising shale gas production in the United States and Canada as well as potential natural gas supplies from Iraq could be pivotal in curbing Russia’s ability to organize an “energy weapon” against European consumers, according to a new study released today by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. 05/07/09 Five senior bioengineering students have designed a device to help astronauts keep their skeletons strong and healthy by measuring bone mineral density loss, literally on the fly. 04/23/09 In spite of a dramatic rise in concerns about the local economy, Houstonians are more positive about living in the region, according to the latest annual Houston Area Survey results from Rice University. 04/19/09 Scientists at Rice University have found a simple way to create basic elements for aircraft, flat-screen TVs, electronics and other products that incorporate sheets of tough, electrically conductive material. 04/15/09 Mike Massimino, a Rice University adjunct professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), will fly aboard NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis on May 12, and he’s using Twitter to tell the world about his final month of preparation for the flight. 04/08/09 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as part of its Architecture Aware Compiler Environment Program, has awarded Rice University $16 million to develop a new set of tools that can improve the performance of virtually any application running on any microprocessor. 04/07/09 Rice University students are giving professional investors a run for their money. Last fall, Owl Capital Management GP outperformed the market by 27 percent, with its portfolio gaining 14 percent while the Standard and Poor's 500 dropped by 13 percent. 03/31/09 The United States and the People's Republic of China established full diplomatic relations 30 years ago. To mark the event, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy will hold a daylong conference April 3 featuring senior statesmen and distinguished scholars from both countries 03/31/09 Two lasers may be better than one when attacking cancer cells, according to a paper by Rice University scientists. 03/26/09 Forty-two teams selected to compete in the world’s richest and largest business plan competition April 16-18. 03/20/09 A new computerized method of testing could help world health officials better identify flu vaccines that are effective against multiple strains of the disease. Rice University scientists who created the method say tests of data from bird flu and seasonal flu outbreaks suggest their method can better gauge the efficacy of proposed vaccines than can tests used today. 03/17/09 Hanan Ashrawi, the noted Palestinian legislator, activist and scholar, will speak on "Peace in the Middle East: Lessons Learned and New Directions" at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy March 24. 03/17/09 New research suggests that a person’s appearance may play a role in whether they are deemed trustworthy by financial lenders. The study is summarized in a working paper by Jefferson Duarte at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management. 03/12/09 An educational initiative between Rice University computer scientists and Indian educators will enable schools in rural India to be some of the first to benefit from Rice's revolutionary, low-energy computer chips. 03/11/09 When threatened, many animals release chemicals as a warning signal to members of their own species, who in turn react to the signals and take action. Research by Rice University psychologist Denise Chen suggests a similar phenomenon occurs in humans. 03/06/09 The Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, but it's the small details that Rice University professors Patrick McGovern and Julia Morgan are looking at in thinking about whether the Red Planet ever had – or still supports – life. 03/04/09 On Thursday, 20 students from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management will depart to spend their entire spring break in Rwanda for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apply their business skills in a developing country. 02/21/09 Two Rice University students will be among those asking movie stars burning questions at Sunday's Academy Awards, having won a spot on the red carpet through mtvU's "Oscar Correspondent Contest." 02/20/09 Rice University’s Office of News and Media Relations is now reaching out to members of the news media who utilize the social networking tool Twitter. 02/10/09 In the first real-world test of a revolutionary type of computing that thrives on random errors, scientists have created a microchip that uses 30 times less electricity while running seven times faster than today's best technology. 02/08/09 A team of Rice researchers has been working to discover the health risks of quantum dots, molecule-sized semiconducting nanocrystals that are generally composed of heavy metals surrounded by an organic shell. 02/02/09 The drivers of Rice University's nanocars were surprised to find modified versions of their creation have the ability to roll at room temperature. While practical applications for the tiny machines may be years away, the breakthrough suggests they'll be easier to adapt to a wider range of uses than the originals, which had to be heated to 200 degrees Celsius before they could move across a surface. 02/02/09 Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has issued a series of focused policy recommendations for the Obama administration. The recommendations reflect the institute’s mission to build a bridge between the world of ideas and the world of action. 01/29/09 The Rice Owls baseball team has been ranked third in preseason polls by USA Today/ESPN coaches, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) and Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and seventh by Baseball America. 01/29/09 In less than two years, WARP -- an open-source wireless research platform developed by Rice University's Center for Multimedia Communication -- has found its way into laboratories at Nokia, MIT, Toyota, NASA, Ericsson and dozens of other organizations. 01/29/09 States that dropped regulations overseeing the performance of two common heart procedures showed no increase in death rates, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Rice University and Duke University Medical Center. 01/27/09 Rice University researchers have created a sophisticated new computer program that rapidly scans large databases of news reports to determine which terrorists groups might be responsible for new attacks. 01/12/09 Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine and the Princeton Review "Best Value Colleges for 2009" both included Rice among their top five private schools. The lists spotlight colleges and universities that offer both an exceptional education and an outstanding economic value. 01/09/09 A new Rice University study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that socioemotional meanings, including sexual ones, are conveyed in human sweat. 01/08/09 Edward Djerejian, the director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and author of “Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador’s Journey Through the Middle East,” is available to discuss the many foreign policy challenges that the Obama administration will face. 01/06/09 New research by a Rice University psychologist clearly identifies the parts of the brain involved in the process of choosing appropriate words during speech. 12/24/08 A Rice University research project recently funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is making use of Nintendo's popular video game technology to codify learning systems in ways that can be used in a range of human endeavors, from sports to surgery. 12/09/08 Rice University researchers have found a potential clue to the roots of epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia and other neurological disorders. 12/09/08 For the second time in three seasons, the Rice football team is going bowling after accepting an invitation Wednesday to the Texas Bowl. It will be the first time that the Owls have played a bowl game in their hometown since 1961. 12/05/08 The technology of government surveillance has changed dramatically, and the rules governing surveillance should be changed accordingly. 12/02/08 A team at Rice University has determined that a strip of graphite only 10 atoms thick can serve as the basic element in a new type of memory, making massive amounts of storage available for computers, handheld media players, cell phones and cameras. 11/21/08 Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), will speak at 6 p.m. Dec. 2 at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. 11/21/08 Houston-based Rice University and Cape Town, South Africa-based Shuttleworth Foundation today announced plans to jointly develop one of the world's largest, most comprehensive sets of free online teaching materials for primary and secondary school children. 11/10/08 Rice University today launched its largest fundraising campaign ever -- $1 billion -- to train more student leaders, boost its research program and expand its community and international outreach during the university's next century 11/07/08 Two Rice University alumni with engineering degrees – he a famed venture capitalist, she an environmental activist – have given their alma mater $15 million to transform the way engineers are educated. 11/07/08 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will speak on future foreign policy challenges Nov. 13 at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. 11/06/08 Edward Djerejian, the director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and author of “Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador’s Journey Through the Middle East,” is available to discuss the many foreign policy challenges that the next president of the United States will encounter. 10/28/08 College students often spend their free time thinking about beer, but a group of Rice University students are taking it to the next level. They're using genetic engineering to create beer that contains resveratrol, a chemical in wine that's been shown to reduce cancer and heart disease in lab animals. 10/16/08 A terahertz version of the single-pixel camera developed by Rice University researchers could lead to breakthrough technologies in security, telecom, signal processing and medicine. 10/14/08 Thousands of people from various faith communities are expected to join together in dining rooms across the nation to break bread and discuss religious beliefs during the 2008 Amazing Faiths Dinner Dialogues 6:30-9:30 p.m. Nov. 13. 10/13/08 This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today’s voting machines. 10/09/08 Rice University has leapt to the forefront of American research universities for the impact on industry of its accumulated patents, according to a company that analyzes intellectual property. 10/09/08 Rice University has established a National Corrosion Center where researchers will develop better technology for preventing corrosion -- a problem that is estimated to cost $276 billion a year in the U.S. 10/09/08 The way the evangelical movement is defined has profound implications for where evangelicals fit into the political spectrum, according to a study by sociologists at Rice University and the University of Texas-Austin. 09/23/08 Is America's red-blue divide based on voters' physiology? A new paper in the journal Science, titled "Political Attitudes Are Predicted by Physiological Traits," explores the link. 09/18/08 Rice University reopened for classes Tuesday after spending the weekend and Monday cleaning up tree limbs and debris and repairing damage caused by Hurricane Ike. About 75 percent of faculty and staff were on campus Tuesday, and most classes scheduled for the afternoon were held. 09/17/08 Due to Hurricane Ike, Rice University will be closed Friday through Sunday. Updates will be posted at www.rice.edu. 09/11/08 A new report co-authored by Rice political scientists Mark Jones and William Reed with colleagues at the University of Houston finds patterns and/or aberrations in the use of Tasers related to ethnicity, gender, race and geography. 09/09/08 Rice University structural engineering researchers are leading a new $1.6 million research program funded by the National Science Foundation to help design a new generation of adaptive, "smart" shock absorbers for buildings and bridges in earthquake-prone areas. 09/09/08 Rice's ambitious $22 million upgrade of information technology paid off when the university was named one of the nation’s top 20 wired colleges in a survey by PC Magazine and The Princeton Review. 09/09/08 Rice University attracted more than $100 million in fiscal 2008 for sponsored research and educational initiatives –- a milestone in its 96-year history. 09/09/08 Shortly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the U.S., Rice University civil and mechanical engineering professor Satish Nagarajaiah studied damage done to offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. 08/29/08 The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research (NEESR) program of the National Science Foundation has awarded to the Rice University a $1.6 million grant to develop the next generation of adaptive seismic protection systems. 09/09/08 Americans are better at saving money when they set goals in the near future -- such as next month -- rather than the more distant future, according to a new study by researchers at Rice University and Old Dominion University. 08/21/08 Using a combination of computer simulations and cutting-edge lab experiments, physical biochemists at Rice University have discovered how a small genetic mutation -- which is known to cause Wilson disease -- subtly changes the structure of a large, complex protein that the body uses to keep copper from building up to toxic levels. 08/21/08 Farinaz Koushanfar, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named to MIT Technology Review magazine's coveted 2008 list of the world's 35 Top Young Innovators. 08/21/08 A campus police officer found former Rice student Matthew Wilson Wednesday (8/13) night in an academic building at the University of California, Berkeley. Click the headline for the complete release. 08/14/08 Rice University's Connexions, one of the most-visited online sites for open-educational resources, today announced it is making a popular textbook available free this fall for one of the country's most-attended transfer-level community college courses -- elementary statistics. 08/13/08 A new policy report released by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy suggests strategies to deal with the current turmoil in the global energy markets, including the role of petrodollars in the U.S. credit bubble. 07/31/08 Rice University ranks No. 2 nationally for best quality of life and for plenty of interaction among students of different races and class in the 2009 edition of the Princeton Review's "Best 368 Colleges." Based on a survey of 120,000 students attending the 368 colleges in the book, Rice also ranks No. 15 for "happiest students." 07/31/08 Rice National Story Tips is a weekly compilation of Rice University news, research and experts sent to higher-education reporters. 07/23/08 Using remarkably sensitive new instruments, seismologists have detected minute geological changes that preceded small earthquakes along California's famed San Andreas Fault by as much as 10 hours. If follow-up tests show that the preseismic signal is pervasive, researchers say the method could form the basis of a robust early warning system for impending quakes. The research appears this week in the journal Nature. 07/14/08 In a move that promises to change the economics of biodiesel refining, chemical engineers at Rice University have unveiled a set of techniques for cleanly converting problematic biofuels waste into chemicals that fetch a profit. 07/01/08 Nearly a century after Danish physicist Niels Bohr offered his planet-like model of the hydrogen atom, a Rice University-led team of physicists has created giant, millimeter-sized atoms that resemble it more closely than any other experimental realization yet achieved. 07/01/08 Work resumed Monday on the construction site where one worker was killed and seven others injured during a severe thunderstorm last Thursday. A safety meeting was conducted before crews continued their work. 06/23/08 A new study conducted by Paul Dholakia at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management shows that online peer-to-peer lending Web sites may be more attractive to Americans than traditional financial institutions. 06/19/08 In the first study of its kind, bioengineers and bioscientists at Rice University and Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, have shown they can grow denser bone tissue by sprinkling stick-like nanoparticles throughout the porous material used to pattern the bone. 06/013/08 Rice University computer engineers have created a way to design integrated circuits that contain many individual selves. The chips can assume different identities, depending on the user’s needs. The research debuts at today's Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, Calif. 06/11/08 Rice University’s Amy Jaffe will testify before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming at a hearing on "The Future of Oil" at 9:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 11, in Room 1300 of the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, D.C. 06/06/08 An increasing number of CEOs are exiting their positions prematurely, according to a study by Yan Zhang at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management. Of the 204 company leaders Zhang studied from 1993 to 1998, 55 (27 percent) left their job within three years. 06/03/08 Michael Chertoff, the U.S. secretary of homeland security, will speak at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy June 5. The lecture, titled "Addressing 21st Century Threats: The U.S. Prevention Strategy," begins at 2:30 p.m. 05/31/08 The Rice Owls will play in their 14th consecutive NCAA baseball tournament this weekend, hosting teams from the University of Texas, St. John’s and Sam Houston State, May 30 to June 1 at Rice's Reckling Park. The Owls, 42-13 overall and Conference USA regular season champions, hold the fourth-longest tournament active streak in the nation. 05/29/08 In recent years, a growing scarcity of energy commodities worldwide has heightened concerns about key geopolitical risks and threats, such as conflict in the Middle East, terrorism and resource nationalism. However, a study released this week suggests that, taken individually, many of the risks driving the oil price premium may be less catastrophic than they seem at first glance. 05/21/08 With the price of a barrel of oil hovering around $120, U.S. drivers can expect to pay more at the pump in the near future, according to a new study by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. 05/21/08 Rice National Story Tips is a weekly compilation of Rice University news, research and experts. It is sent weekly to national higher education reporters. 05/19/08 A world-renowned team of experts in biomechanics and physiology from six universities, led by Professor Hugh Herr of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, refute scientific claims that the prostheses worn by Oscar Pistorius, a 21-year-old South African bilateral amputee track athlete, provide him with an unfair advantage in the 400-meter race. Their conclusions were based on data collected at the Rice University Locomotion Laboratory, under the direction of Professor Peter Weyand. 05/16/08 A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet's crust to become locked in place. 05/12/08 Rice National Story Tips is a weekly compilation of Rice University news, research and experts. 05/06/08 Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy will host the Houston premiere of the HBO movie "Recount" May 20. Following the screening, former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III will participate in a discussion about the U.S. federal election system. 05/05/08 Houstonians are increasingly concerned about immigration and its effects on the region, according to the latest annual Houston-Area Survey. This finding comes, however, as the same survey finds Latino immigrants are quickly assimilating into U.S. society. 04/29/08 Rice National Story Tips is a weekly compilation of Rice University news, research and experts. 04/23/08 Lockheed Martin and Rice University today announced the creation of an innovative, strategic partnership to develop new technologies for a broad range of applications in electronics, energy and security. 04/21/08 Reacting to the current economic downturn, U.S. voters now rate the economy as the single most important issue in the presidential campaign. As part of its series "Campaign 2008: The Issues Considered," Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy will present a conference April 24 titled "Economic Policies of the Candidates: Beyond the Sound Bites." 04/18/08 The Department of Defense (DOD) today announced that Rice University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will spearhead the search for innovative ways to quickly grow large volumes of bone tissue for craniofacial reconstruction for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. 04/17/08 Ben Braun, who guided the University of California at Berkley to more postseason appearances and postseason wins than any other basketball coach in school history, was introduced on Monday as the 23rd head men's basketball coach at Rice University. The announcement was made by Rice Athletics Director Chris Del Conte. 04/07/08 Listen to Ben Braun being introduced as Rice's 23rd head men's basketball coach. The news conference took place at Fox Gym, next door to the Autry Court which is currently being renovated. 04/07/08 Rice National Story Tips is a weekly compilation of Rice University news, research and experts. 03/27/08 A series of novel techniques developed at Rice University over the past year could stop pirates by allowing chip designers to lock and remotely activate chips with a unique ID tag. When a chip is locked with the new technology, only the patent-holder can decipher the key and activate the chip -- meaning knockoffs and stolen chips are worthless. 03/12/08 Rice University will host 30 world-renowned international religious studies experts as they examine the newly found Tchacos Codex that contains the Gospel of Judas, the Apocalypse of James, the Letter of Peter to Philip and a fragment of Allogenes and Satan. 03/10/08 Rice University's Baker Institute is making photos and sound bites available to news media for free use. Click in to download! 02/28/08 Rice University's Baker Institute town hall forum Thursday morning with Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain will be streamed online live. The event is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. CST Thursday and will run one hour. 02/27/08 Walter Chapman, director of Rice's Energy and Environmental Systems Institute, will testify Feb. 29 at a field hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. The hearing, to be held at the Baker Institute at 10:30 a.m. 02/25/08 Rice University and the Baker Institute for Public Policy will host an hour-long town hall meeting with Republican presidential candidate John McCain starting at 8:30 a.m. CST Feb. 28. The forum at Baker Hall is being held for Rice students, faculty, staff, alumni and other guests... 02/22/08 Rice University's technology for a "gambling" computer chip, which could boost battery life as much as tenfold on cell phones and laptops while slashing development costs for chipmakers, has been named to MIT Technology Review's coveted annual top 10 list. 02/19/08 A new study by researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas-Austin finds that Texas' public school accountability system, the model for the national No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), directly contributes to lower graduation rates. 02/14/08 The first genome-wide search for genes governing social behavior has found that even the simplest social creatures -- the amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum -- have more than 100 genes that help regulate their cooperative behavior. 02/13/08 Rice University today launched a Web site specifically designed to meet the needs of print and broadcast reporters, writers, producers, editors and hosts. 02/13/08 Research by Rice University professor of political science John Alford indicates that what is on one's mind about politics may be influenced by how people are wired genetically. 02/11/08 Energy experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy argue that while new fuel economy standards set by the 2007 energy bill are a step in the right direction, they won't be sufficient to cut U.S. oil imports. 02/10/08 The Department of Defense has commissioned a nine-month study from Rice University chemists to determine whether a new drug based on carbon nanotubes can help prevent people from dying of acute radiation. 02/09/08 Researchers from Rice University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created the darkest material ever measured -- a thin carpet of carbon nanotubes that's four times darker than the previous record-holder. 02/04/08