Funded Awards

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 (Fall 2024)

Building Brains: How to Create Brain Healthy Places that Unlock Hidden Potential
Juan-Jose Castellon, Architecture

Haiti and the World: Global Encounters of the Past, Present and Future
Jacqueline Couti, Humanities

Linsey Sainte- Claire, Humanities

Winter in Person Organic Symposium (WIPOS 2024)
Laszlo Kurti, Chemistry

13th Strategy Symposium on Emerging Markets
Haiyang Li, Business

Prashant Kale, Business

Next-generation Microelectronics and Interface Engineering for Integration
Lane Martin, Materials Science and Nanoengineering

Xuedan Ma, Materials Science and Nanoengineering

HaeYeon Lee, Materials Science and Nanoengineering

African American Literature and the Other Arts
Hayley O'Malley, Humanities

Global & International History Seminar Series
Nana Osei-Opare, Humanities

Whats cooking in the Pastoral Neolithic? New approaches to African foodways
Mary Prendergast, Social Sciences

Comics Sans Frontieres: Border Defiance in Graphic Narratives
Christopher Sperandio, Humanities

Ofra Amihay, Humanities

2025 Medicine and AI Workshop
Kirsten Matthews, Baker Institute

Moshe Vardi, Computer Science

Rodrigo Ferreira, Computer Science

Lydia Kavraki, Computer Science

Kirsten Ostherr, Medial Humanities Program

Robert J.Howell, Humanities

CEMA 2025​​​​​​​

Nicola Secomandi, Business

2025 Statistical Methods in Imaging Conference​​​​​​​

Marina Vannucci, Statistics

Scholarly and Creative Works Subvention Fund (Fall 2024)

Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial and Anglophone​​​​​​​

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

Comics Sans Frontieres, A conference and a Book​​​​​​​

Christopher Sperandio, Humanities

The Well Rounded Life​​​​​​​

Amy Berg, Humanities

Concerto for Saxophone, Winds and Percussion: A concert and recording with 26 students from the Shepher School of Music, Timothy McAllister, saxophone and Jerry Hou, conductor

Pierre Jalbert, Music

Music, Brain, Mind and Body​​​​​​​

Anthony Brandt, Music

Late Modern-Post-Modern Arquitectonica in Houston​​​​​​​

Reto Geiser, Architecture

Light Gauge

Nathan Friedman, Architecture