Holocaust Testimonies Live for Students
The thousands of first-person testimonies of the Holocaust in the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive movingly illustrate the dangers of intolerance.

Hold the Mayo
What do mayonnaise and salad dressing have in common with the types of plastics used to make bulletproof vests? Rice scientists say it’s a little-understood attractive force called “negative normal stress.”

Religious Tolerance Focus of New Center at Rice
Given the tenets formally expressed by the world’s major religions, it might seem that religious tolerance is a precept spread uniformly across faiths. One only has to watch the evening news, however, to see that, in practice, this is not always the case. In an effort to shed light on the situation, a new center at Rice will strive to promote understanding through study of the sources of religious tolerance and intolerance.

Herring Hall Overhaul
The exterior of Herring Hall may look the same as it did when it housed the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, but work over the past two years has wrought many changes to the building’s interior—and purpose.

Flies in Space
Fruit flies are bug-eyed and spindly and they love rotten bananas.
Following orders from their pin-sized brains, they can lay hundreds of eggs every day. But in a genetic research lab, at least, they can be good substitutes for humans.

RICE: The Next Century Campaign Closes at 502.7 Million!
The largest comprehensive campaign in the history of Rice University has been a great success, closing $2.7 million beyond the $500 million goal. Nearly 24,000 alumni gave to Rice during the campaign—an impressive and strong statement of loyalty and pride.

Coming to a Dome Theater Near You
Fully immersive dome theaters—planetariums—are great venues for entertainment and education. But because of the complex technology such theaters employ, there are only about 40 planetariums nationwide. That makes access a problem for many people.

Surveying Surveys
Almost daily, we see news of major discoveries in medicine, the science of our planet and the stars, or the human genome.

Unearthing a More Complex Carbon Cycle
As humankind pumps more and more carbon into the atmosphere, those studying global climate change are becoming increasingly interested in the fate and consequences of all that extra carbon.

The Science of Teaching
CBEN and the Center for Education help urban teachers learn to engage students in scientific concepts.