The Office of Research at Rice is committed to supporting and amplifying creative research and scholarship. Since its creation in 2016, the Creative Ventures Funds has awarded more than $4 million. The following projects were awarded for Spring and Fall 2021.
Funded projects for the Provost's TMC Collaborator Fund can be found here.
Funded projects for the Race and Anti-Racism Research Fund can be found here.
Funded projects for the COVID-19 Research Fund can be found here.
Conference and Workshop Development Fund (Fall 2021)
Post-Harvey Climate & Flood Impacts on the Built Environment
Philip Bedient, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Spillover
Joseph Campana, Center for Environmental Studies
Randall Hall, History
Thanks for the Ride: Biotic Vectors of Dispersal
Adrienne Correa, BioSciences
Tom Miller, BioSciences
Biennial Symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association
Farshid Emami, Art History
SoWEPS - Southern Workshop in Empirical Political Science
Jonathan Homola, Political Science
Connor Huff, Political Science
Michelle Torres, Political Science
The Science and Engineering of Everything Quantum
Alberto Pimpinelli, Smalley-Curl Institute
Junichiro Kono, Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Sixth Sphere
Albert Pope, Architecture
Brittany Utting, Architecture
Digital Health Research Cluster
Ashutosh Sabharwal, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lydia Kavraki, Computer Science
Todd Treangen, Computer Science
Angela Wilkins, Ken Kennedy Institute
Workforce Development Incubator Summit
Eduardo Salas, Psychological Sciences
2022 Joint Rice Center for Quantum Materials and Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Conference
Qimiao Si, Rice Center for Quantum Materials
Scholarly and Creative Works Subvention Fund (Fall 2021)
Wild Eyed
Natasha Bowdoin, Visual and Dramatic Arts
Kassandra and The Leader Recording
Anthony Brandt, Shepherd School of Music
Karim Al-Zand, Shepherd School of Music
Drawing the Curtain
Esther Fernandez, Modern and Classical Literatures
(Im)material Matters II
Liz Galvez, Architecture
Happiness
Uriah Kriegel, Philosophy
Soundscape Houston
Ian Schimmel, English
Red, White and You Blew It All 2 Hell!
Christopher Sperandio, Visual and Dramatic Arts
Mow-Town
Maggie Tsang, Architecture
Texas Forests and the CCC
Brittany Utting, Architecture
Scholarly and Creative Works Subvention Fund (Spring 2021)
The Places of Modernity in Mexican American Literature and Culture, 1848-1948
Jose Aranda, English
TECHNOLOGY SEQUENCE (ARCH 207/507 & 309/509): Experimental Models of Space and Structure
Juan Jose Castellon Gonzalez, Architecture
Foucault's Christianities
Niki Clements, Religion
The Unsafe Stage: Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian Theatre
Esther Fernandez, Modern and Classical Literatures
System of Novelties
Dawn Finley, Architecture
Poetry Book Translation: El cero móvil de su boca / Le zéro mobile de sa bouche
Gisella Heffes, Modern and Classical Literatures
Won Buddhism of Houston
Carlos Jimenez, Architecture
Drunk Hawing Catalogue
Lisa Lapinski, Visual and Dramatic Arts
Let Me Count the Ways: a Memoir
Tomas Morin, English
Greenie Josephinie
Christopher Sperandio, Visual and Dramatic Arts
Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in Mexico
Jesus Vassallo, Architecture
Lifelines: Paul Celan's Poetry and Poetics
Klaus Weissenberger, Modern and Classical Literatures
A Trail of Marvels: Mexico and the Day of the Dead
Geoff Winningham, Visual and Dramatic Arts