The Office of Research at Rice is committed to supporting and amplifying creative research and scholarship. The following projects were awarded for the 2023-24 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 2025)

The Global Game: The 2026 FIFA World Cup and ITs Global Impact
Jacqueline Couti, Humanities
Caroline Fache, Humanities

Rice Undergraduate Neuroscience Symposium
Jon Flynn, Natural Sciences

2025 Meeting of the Universities Studying Slavery Consortium at Rice
Caleb McDaniel, Humanities

Health Innovations in the Rice/TMC Ecosystem
Michael King, Engineering

Jewish-Esotericism in the Information Age
Brian Ogren, Humanities

Art in Context: Art, Architecture and the Middle Landscape
Troy Schaum, Architecture

Young Research Leaders in Topological Materials and Beyond
Yonglong Xie, Natural Sciences
Ming Yi, Natural Sciences

Scholarly and Creative Works Subvention Fund (Spring 2025)

Seed
Natasha Bowdoin, Humanities

The Artful Naturalis: Artifacts fro an Entangled World
Judith Brunton, Humanities

Freud and Augustine in Dialogue: Psychoanalysis, Mysticism and the Culture of Modern Spirituality
William Parsons, Humanities

OF the Soil: An Arkansas Anthology
Geoff Winningham, Humanities

Reproductive Justice, Queerly
Carly Thomsen, Humanities

A House with One Room
Goergina Baronian, Architecture

Time Space Existence
Juan Jose Castellon, Architecture

Garden Ecologies
Maggie Tsang, Architecture

Weaving Ecologies in the Plantationocene
Xu Zhicheng, Architecture