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 the 2021-22 academic year.
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 2022)
What do Monuments do? Why do (or don’t) we need them? How might they be rethought and re-made?
Graham Bader, Art History
Ignite Entrepreneurship Silicon Valley Conference
Brad Burke, Rice Alliance
Paul Cherukuri, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Kaz Karwowski, Rice Center for Engineering Leadership
Workshop on Secure Programmable Next-Generation Networks
Ang Chen, Computer Science
The Gnostic Renaissance in Modernity Conference
April DeConick, Religion
Rice Workshop on Improving Mobility with Low Vision
Patricia DeLucia, Psychological Sciences
Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, June 2023
Jeffrey Fleisher, Anthropology
Susan McIntosh, Anthropology
Mary Prendergast, Anthropology
Economic Sociology Conference
Minjae Kim, Jones Graduate School of Business
James Elliott, Sociology
Alessandro Piazza, Jones Graduate School of Business
Scott Sonenshein, Jones Graduate School of Business
Fall 2022 Texas Branch American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Meeting
Natasha Kirienko, BioSciences
International Conference on Quantum Vacuum in Matter
Junichiro Kono, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Quantum Computing Workshop
Anastasios Kyrillidis, Computer Science
Kaden Hazzard, Physics and Astronomy
Guido Pagano, Physics and Astronomy
Leonardo Duenas-Osorio, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Workshop on Automated AI Tools for Computing and Communication
Yingyan Lin, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kinder-HERC Research Gallery Walk
Ruth Turley, Kinder Institute, Houston Education Research Consortium
QuarkMatter 2023
Frank Geurts, Physics and Astronomy
Scholarly and Creative Works Subvention Fund (Spring 2022)
The New Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran
Farshid Emami, Art History
Companion to Tirso de Molina
Esther Fernandez, Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
Public Work: Designing Mexico’s Fourth Transformation
Nathan Friedman, Architecture
Poetry Book Translation to Swedish: El cero móvil de su boca
Gisela Heffes, Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
Life-making: In the Company of Radical Women Writers from the 1930s
Rosemary Hennessy, English
Solo Exhibition: "Themesong Variation Re-mix"
John Sparagana, Visual and Dramatic Arts
Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common
Brittany Utting, Architecture
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