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
Next-generation Microelectronics and Interface Engineering for Integration
Lane Martin, Materials Science and Nanoengineering
Xuedan Ma, 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
2025 Medicine and AI Workshop
Kirsten Matthews, Baker Institute
Moshe Vardi, 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