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 $5 million. The following projects were awarded for the 2022-23 academic year.
Funded projects for the Sustainable Futures Fund can be found here.
Funded projects for the ARPA-H Strategic Initiative Seed Fund can be found here.
Funded projects for the Technology Development Fund can be found here.
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 (Spring 2023)
International Society for the Study of Surrealism
Graham Bader, Art History
US National Academies Workshop on Engineering Innovation for Health
Gang Bao, Bioengineering
The Abolitionist’s Tea Party and Apothecary
Natasha Bowdoin, Visual and Dramatic Arts
2023 Ignite Entrepreneurship Silicon Valley Conference
Brad Burke, Rice Alliance
Paul Cherukuri, Innovation
Kaz Karwowski, Rice Center for Engineering Leadership
Who Decides? Advancing Research, Assessing Risk, and Sharing Responsibility
Luis Campos, History
Kirstin Matthews, Baker Institute
Foucault 2024: Power, Knowledge, Ethics
Niki Clements, Religion
Promoting Ludwig Hilberseimer
Scott Colman, Rice Architecture
The Annual Texas Triangle International Relations Conference 2024
Songying Fang, Political Science
7th Annual Texas Medical Center Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship Conference
Natasha Kirienko, BioSciences
Dzogchen Texts & Contexts
Anne Klein, Religion
Climate change impacts on biodiversity
Tom Miller, BioSciences
InterfaceRice
Jacob Robinson, Bioengineering
Jerzy Szablowski, Bioengineering
Marcie O'Malley, Mechanical Engineering
Behnaam Aazhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
NAE Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Omid Veiseh, Bioengineering
Scholarly and Creative Works Subvention Fund (Spring 2023)
Recording and Release of Compositions for Young Audiences
Karim Al-Zand, Shepherd School of Music
Michael Webster, Shepherd School of Music
Rachel Buchman, Shepherd School of Music
Meeting of Minds
Anthony Brandt, Shepherd School of Music
sisila ila ila: saying goodbye
Shih-Hui Chen, Shepherd School of Music
Living West as Feminists: Conversations about the Where of Us
Krista Comer, English
Shaping Identity on Republican Temples: Architectural Terracottas in Central Italy, 3rd-1st Cent. BCE
Sophie Crawford-Brown, Art History
Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century
Esther Fernandez, Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
Poetry Book Translation to German
Gisela Heffes, Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture: Mapping Buddhist Book Roads in China and its Neighbors
Shih-shan Huang, Transnational Asian Studies
Works, Writings and Drawings
Carlos Jimenez, Rice Architecture
“El cuerpo como espejo de la desigualdad en México durante la segunda mitad del siglo veinte” (The Body as a Mirror of Inequality in Mexico during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century)
Moramay Lopez Alonso, History
Familia e fronteira no Brasil colonial
Alida Metcalf, History
Where Are You From
Tomas Morin, English
Inverse Utopia
Albert Pope, Rice Architecture
This Year Is Next Year's Last Year
Christopher Sperandio, Visual and Dramatic Arts
What is 'We'?
Ragini Srinivasan, English
Fountain
Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, Visual and Dramatic Arts
Ghosts of Modernity / Ghosts of the past: The Architecture of Guadalajara
Jesus Vassallo, Rice Architecture
Conference and Workshop Development Fund (Fall 2022)
Urban Flooding Resilience and Climate Challenges
Philip Bedient, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Xia Ben Hu, Computer Science
Aftermaths of Slavery and Dancing Bodies in the Americas: Workshop and Symposium with Dancer and Scholar LénaBlou
Jacqueline Couti, Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AT RICE: A SOLUTIONS-FOCUSED CURRICULUM
Sylvia Dee, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Joseph Campana, English
Mary Prendergast, Anthropology
Dominic Boyer, Anthropology
Arlei Lopes da Silva, Computer Science
James Doss-Gollin, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carrie Masiello, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Bargaining: Experiments, Empirics, and Theory (BEET)
Hulya Eraslan, Economics
Expanding the Rice Undergraduate Neuroscience Symposium
Jon Flynn, BioSciences
SPP10: an International Conference in Nanophotonics to be held at Rice University May 2023
Naomi Halas, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Peter Nordlander, Physics and Astronomy
Christy Landes, Chemistry
Aditya Mohite, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
FLSML Workshop
Chris Jermaine, Computer Science
Anshumali Shrivastava, Computer Science
Vladimir Braverman, Computer Science
2nd Winter In-Person Organic Symposium (WIPOS 2022)
Laszlo Kurti, Chemistry
Future-proof Distributed/Federated ML Computing
Anastasios Kyrillidis, Computer Science
Yingyan Lin, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cesar Uribe, Electrical and Computer Engineering
The 11th Strategy Symposium on Emerging Markets
Haiyang Li, Jones Graduate School of Business
Prashant Kale, Jones Graduate School of Business
1st Workshop on the Muon-Ion Collider
Wei Li, Physics and Astronomy
Darin Acosta, Physics and Astronomy
Texas Astrophysics and Cosmology Symposium (TACOS)
Andrew Long, Physics and Astronomy
Mustafa Amin, Physics and Astronomy
DRAWING IN THE MARGINS
Christopher Sperandio, Visual and Dramatic Arts
Garden Ecologies Symposium
Maggie Tsang, Rice Architecture
Developing a Statewide Research-Practice-Policy Partnership ("RP3")
Ruth Turley, Kinder Institute
Erin Baumgartner, Kinder Institute
Texas Regional Robotics Symposium 2023
Vaibhav Unhelkar, Computer Science
Daniel Preston, Mechanical Engineering
Kaiyu Hang, Computer Science
Synthetic Innovations towards a Cure for Cancer (SICC)
Han Xiao, Chemistry
Antonios Mikos, Bioengineering
Scholarly and Creative Works Subvention Fund (Fall 2022)
Music for Strings
Anthony Brandt, Shepherd School of Music
Speculations on Sovereignty: Shakespeare’s Once and Future Child
Joseph Campana, English
Comparing Christianities: An Introduction to the New Testament and the First Christians
April DeConick, Religion
Títeres de lo imposible
Esther Fernandez, Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
Four Generations - Music for Cello and Piano
Arthur Gottschalk, Shepherd School of Music
COMPARING RELIGIONS
Jeffrey Kripal, Religion
"American Landscapes" and "Current and Flow"
Kurt Stallmann, Shepherd School of Music
Big, Hot, and Sticky: Designing Houston's Urban Ecosystem
Maggie Tsang, Rice Architecture
MESO-COSM: Architectures of Planetary Care
Brittany Utting, Rice Architecture
Speculative: Black Art Practices of the West
Olivia Young, Art History