As a researcher of student mental health and well-being, Keith Herman has found that, in general, offering students more positive encouragement rather than negative reprimands not only reduces disruptive student classroom behavior but can also improve students’ academic and social outcomes.
Rice lab leads development of light-activated hemithioindigo molecules to kill infectious bacteria
Walking feeds pressure to pneumatic robots that could help those with disabilities
New tool lets Rice synthetic biologists ‘see’ signal processing in real time
Recreating 130,000 years of mammal food webs shows scope of biodiversity crisis
Rice technique shows creating films on lithium anodes gives them longer life
Rice, Baylor study highlights potential treatment for aggressive lung cancer
Rice lab leads effort to generate thickness-independent piezoelectricity in atom-thick materials
Computations yield new insights about how motor proteins split double strands
Sanding powder into a material provides the right properties for superhydrophobicity
Rice University survey suggests some aren’t considering dangerous conditions to come
Rice bioscientists use mixed-reality headset, custom software to measure vegetation in the field
Rice study: Bottom-up construction with a 2D twist could yield novel materials
Researchers publish scenario that explains 2016 discovery by NASA’s Curiosity rover
Lab manipulates dead spiders’ legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers
For school-age students and their parents, school choice programs can be complicated and stressful. Research from Rice University economist YingHua
Restrictive immigration policies and aggressive law enforcement are harmful to the mental health of immigrants living in the United States illegally, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice lab uses customized Cas9 editors to dissect how genetic elements communicate
The shared genetic ancestry is the result of multiple hybridization events between North American bison and cattle over the last 200 years, which followed a population crash of bison in the 1800s.
Rice University bioscientists adapt CRISPR to trigger ‘silent’ genes in bacteria