9 Research Items Found
August 24, 2018
This paper reviews the membership, activities, and impact of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in …
June 05, 2015
In March 2013, Houston was awarded one of five inaugural Mayor’s Challenge Prizes from Bloomberg Philanthropies for its innovative proposal …
March 08, 2013
The United States should assign a particularly high priority on science and technology over the next four years, especially for …
October 12, 2010
A Civic Scientist Précis on Robert F. Curl Jr., Ph.D., Sir Harold Kroto, Ph.D., and the late Richard Smalley, Ph.D.
Reginald DesRoches is Rice University’s provost and serves as a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and mechanical engineering. As the university’s chief academic officer, DesRoches works closely with the president to advance Rice’s teaching, research and service mission. The …
Ronald L. Sass, Ph.D., is the fellow in global climate change at the Baker Institute and the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Natural Sciences emeritus at Rice University. Now retired, he joined the Rice faculty in 1958 …
