Jacob Beckham was announced a Schmidt Science Fellow, marking the third consecutive year a Rice graduate has won one of the prestigious awards. The award will help support his research on gut bacteria’s influence on mental health. bit.ly/3QiYIjC

Rice University physicists have discovered a phase-changing quantum material that could potentially be used to create flash like memory capable of storing quantum bits of information, or qubits, even when a quantum computer is powered down. bit.ly/3UyFTeK

Moshe Vardi, University Professor at Rice and an expert in computational logic, artificial intelligence and databases, has been awarded an honorary title by the University of Calabria, Italy. bit.ly/3WpymAa

Rice’s Emerging Scholars Program has received a five-year, $2.5M grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The funding aims to bolster achievements in STEM among students from under-resourced families and communities. bit.ly/4dfQ2V6

Melissa Cohen-Nickels, an experienced educator with a passion for history, was recently named the new curator of Rice University’s Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives. bit.ly/3UBQSEs

Rice trustee and alum Vinay Pai ’88, ’91 shares how community is a core component of tech advancement, but his most enduring contribution to the technology field may be his work leveraging cloud-based services to benefit underserved communities. bit.ly/49QzwYM

Rice University's OpenStax has been awarded a $90 million grant by the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish SafeInsights, a pioneering research hub aimed at transforming educational practices and outcomes at a national level.

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Rice University will jointly host a first-of-its-kind national workshop to examine the burgeoning field of research on research security to inform future laws, policies and guidelines aimed at enhancing research security around the world. bit.ly/3Wlt2y5

Rice University has landed its largest-ever federal grant for education research. bizjournals.com/houston/news/2…

At Rice University, OpenStax’s SafeInsights will enable extensive, long-term research on effective learning while protecting student privacy. This 5-year, $90M project represents the U.S. National Science Foundation’s largest single investment in R&D infrastructure for education.

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The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Rice University $90 million to build the country’s largest education research hub, aiming to advance teachers’ knowledge of student learning strategies and boost outcomes for people from diverse backgrounds.
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Thank you, Houston Chronicle and Samantha Ketterer, for highlighting Rice's OpenStax and the new record-setting grant for their research hub, SafeInsights, which will provide transformational inclusive education research. We are excited for this incredible opportunity!

OpenStax, Rice University has been awarded a historic grant from U.S. National Science Foundation enabling us to build and lead an innovative education research and development hub called SafeInsights! Thank you, NSF! Visit safeinsights.org for more information.

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At an event at the Ion, OpenStax and Rice University announced a $90 million NSF-backed initiative. houston.innovationmap.com/edtech-rice-un…

The Kinder Institute for Urban Research works to understand the Houston region’s biggest challenges. Directed by Ruth N. López Turley, the institute develops solutions to help all Houstonians prosper. bit.ly/44hkWbv

Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders, led by Bernard 'Bernie' Banks, is committed to elevating the leadership abilities of all Rice students — undergraduate and graduate — regardless of age or experience, and at no cost. bit.ly/3We84RC

Today we announced Rice University’s OpenStax has secured the largest federal research grant in Rice’s history to lead SafeInights, a multi-institutional initiative for education research. bit.ly/49M4WiY

The SafeInsights initiative, led by Rice’s OpenStax and Rice University professor Rich Baraniuk, the project will accelerate student learning through safe studies that result in more innovative, evidence-based tools and practices. bit.ly/49M4WiY

Rice's OpenStax was awarded $90M from the U.S. National Science Foundation to build and lead SafeInsights, a groundbreaking research and development hub for inclusive learning and education research to benefit students and their instructors across all educational levels. bit.ly/4baYPpy

The Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance focuses on religious pluralism and tolerance. Elaine Howard Ecklund leads the institute to foster religious literacy through research and education. bit.ly/3w2Z1s0