Let’s start with the name — Harvey. It sounds vaguely patrician or dutiful, definitely not threatening. For those of a certain age, the name also reminds us of a …
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FWIS 121 Time Travel Narratives: Fiction, Film, Science (Fall 2017)
DEPARTMENT First-Year Writing-Intensive Seminar
DESCRIPTION This course investigates the historical, aesthetic and scientific connections between the authorial …
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Michael Harris ’05, Morris Almond ’07 and Pat Krieger ’82, a trio of high-scoring basketball players, and Jim Bevan, head coach of the women’s cross-country and track and field …
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In one of the first studies of its kind, Rice scientists show that strong environmental “filters” — in this case, predatory fish — cause dragonfly and damselfly communities to …
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NEST360°, a visionary 10-year effort to save the lives of 500,000 African babies per year, is among four finalists for the MacArthur Foundation’s first 100&Change grant, the foundation announced …
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin Press, 2017)
“There are amazing things happening all over the place every …
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Shortly after Harvey dropped over 50 inches of rain on Houston, Rice’s Joshua Furman, a Jewish studies postdoc, and Melissa Kean ’00, Rice’s centennial historian, spearheaded an effort to …
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Rice scientists will research the short- and long-term impact of extreme flooding in and around Houston during Hurricane Harvey with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
A …
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For those who have unexpectedly flooded, realize that you have just been through trauma. You may have lost things that meant a lot to you. This is not the time …
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The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories
Glenn Blake ’79 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
In “The Old and the Lost,” the title of one of the stories …
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