Universities Settle Financial-Aid Antitrust Lawsuit for $166M February 26, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Dartmouth, Northwestern, Rice and Vanderbilt universities have agreed to pay a combined $166 million to resolve claims that they favored...
Rice University Allocates $33M to Settle Antitrust Lawsuit Over Financial Aid Scheme January 24, 2024 By Ikram Mohamed, The Texas Tribune Rice University has set aside $33.75 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed against 17 prestigious private universities across the...
Researchers Create Extreme Weather Early Warning System from ‘Obsolete’ Tool February 6, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Rice University engineers have created a deep learning computer system that taught itself to accurately predict extreme weather events, like...
Rice U. Says Its Hurricane Plan for Houston Better Than $20B Coastal Barrier July 30, 2019 By Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune For about a decade, two of Texas’ top universities have pushed dueling plans to protect the Houston-Galveston region from hurricanes....
Researchers: FEMA’s Houston Flood Maps Outdated Long Before Harvey September 22, 2017 The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood plain maps for parts of southeastern Houston were woefully out-of-date long before Hurricane Harvey...