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(09/18/09 12:00am)
Decathlons, it seems, are not solely for athletes. In December 2007, the United States Department of Energy selected Rice as one of 20 teams, including international competitors, to compete in the Solar Decathlon, a competition that is designed to prove that solar technology is a viable solution for homes in the future. Rice's entry, the 15-by-50-foot ZEROW House finished last week by a team of students and professors, will be judged by professionals in architecture and engineering during the main event, held Oct. 8-21 at The National Mall in Washington D.C.
(09/11/09 12:00am)
With Houston as their backdrop, a team of Rice and University of Houston researchers will put Mother Nature to the test by evaluating the city's sustainability. After being awarded a $40,000 grant from the Shell Center for Sustainability, which is based out of the School of Social Sciences, the researchers will team up to craft a set of measurements to determine whether or not Houston's progress is feasibly sustainable.The areas of specialty for the three researchers - Jim Blackburn, professor in the practice of environmental law; Stephen Klineberg, sociology professor and director of the Urban Research Center of Houston; and Barton Smith, economics professor and director of the Institute for Regional Forecasting at the University of Houston - represent three key areas to test Houston's sustainability.
(09/04/09 12:00am)
Some West University residents may be complaining that their streets are overflowing with Rice-affiliated cars, but a recent survey concluded that Rice vehicles only account for 4 percent of the parking traffic on residential streets surrounding campus.The survey, which was conducted by the Office of Public Affairs with Facilities, Engineering and Planning, the Texas Medical Center, the Rice Village and Desman Associates, a consulting firm, monitored approximately 1,700 vehicles from April 15 to May 5 in 2008, and again Feb. 19 to March 2 this year, by logging license plates.
