Omar Veiseh:
Yesterday, Eli Lilly announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sigilon Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company that seeks to develop functional cures for patients with a broad range of acute and chronic diseases. Sigilon Therapeutics was co-founded by Omar Veiseh, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research at Rice. Read more.
Ion Innovation on Tap Lecture Series (Thanks, Michelle Smith '79!):
Next up in the Ion Innovation on Tap lecture series is Rice Engineering Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Marcia O’Malley today at 4 pm. Read more.
Bryan Washington:
Juneteenth:
Rice honors Juneteenth (Rice News)
Rice HIstory Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean's latest blog entry entitled "Looking Down at Campus, 2023 and 1957"
Anatoly Kolomeisky:
NSF award backs research on quantifying heterogeneity (Rice News)
Baker Institute:
Report: Russia-Ukraine provides policy issues (Rice News)
Glasscock School:
Glasscock School kicking off summer with a bevy of educational programs (Rice News)
2023 AIA Houston Design Awards (Thanks, Kathleen Boyd '80!):
Rebecca Richards-Kortum:
DNA test could broad access to cervical cancer screening (Rice News)
Yimo Han:
Yimo Han wins NSF CAREER Award (Rice News)
2023 AIA Houston Design Awards (Thanks, Kathleen Boyd '80!):
Rice Alliance:
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator announces Class 3 ventures (Rice News)
Arun Natarajan:
Rice names AP for institutional research and effectiveness (Rice News)
Steve Kean:
Annette Gordon-Reed Lecture, June 20:
You are invited to a “On Juneteenth” lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard professor Annette Gordon-Reed at the Hudspeth Auditorium, Anderson-Clarke Center at 7 pm CT, June 20. A book signing will follow. The lecture is free and open to the public. Read more and/or register here.
Rice Architecture:
Ilana Gershon:
New fiction book edited by Rice anthropologist explores living with monsters (Rice News)
The Ion:
Ion Welcomes Three New Corporate Partners (Rice News)
Kinder Institute:
Rising flood insurance costs may be another blow to Houston's affordability (Houston Chronicle)
Hannah Ballard:
Douglas Brinkley:
Rice historian Douglas Brinkley will be a featured author at the Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Washington DC Convention Center on August 12. Read more.
Karrie '92 and Tim League '92:
Bobby Tudor '82:
Houston’s role in energy transition relies on innovators, funders (Houston Chronicle)
Society of Africanist Archaeologists:
Rice hosts world’s largest conference for African archaeology (Rice News)