Features
Driving
Us Crazy
The computer age promised access
to all sorts of information at the touch of a button. Instead, it’s
left us with records and tapes we can’t play, computer disks
we can’t read, and data that’s inaccessible.
by Christopher Dow
HOOTS
A grassroots scholarship program created by staffers
in Facilities & Engineering and Housing & Dining helps
their children afford a Rice education.
by David D. Medina
Rethinking
the Dismal Science
Challenging economic stereotypes is just part
of the mission of Feminist Economics, an academic journal housed
at Rice.
by Christopher Dow
Low
Society
The humble slime mold promises to provide scientists
with a new window into the evolutionary rules of cooperation—and
the molecular machinery that built us all.
by Bryant Furlow
Studying
Social Evolution in Microcosm
What are the causes, mechanisms, and
effects of social
evolution? Rice evolutionary biologists David Queller and Joan
Strassmann believe that the single-celled social amoeba Dictyostelium
discoideum might provide some of the answers.
by Jade Boyd
Rice: The
Next Century Campaign
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