The winning entry for the Scientia Conference video competition was submitted by Zach Bielak (Creator, Director) and Jarvis Miller (Narrator)

The winning video will be posted on this page soon.

Video footage of the Scientia conference on Space Exploration and Human Imagination, containing all presentations, is now available here.

As a senior Nasa official, George Abbey (pictured center) was the man responsible for selecting astronauts for shuttle missions during the height of American space exploration. But it was his love for Wales that led to a more unusual spaceflight–sending the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas into orbit.

Read the full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22299909

Abbey is is now the Baker Botts Senior Fellow in Space Policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

It’s hard to get a perfect cup of coffee in space. But Rice University freshmen are trying to fix that. 

The engineering students charged with the task of making a better coffee condiment system for the International Space Station (ISS) have come up with a solution they believe will please the astronauts. 

http://news.rice.edu/2013/04/24/space-coffee-gets-an-upgrade-2/

The annual Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium enables Rice undergraduate students in all disciplines to share their research and design projects with the broader Rice and Houston community. More than 250 undergraduate students from across the disciplines competed for monetary prizes in the annual Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium held on April 12 at Tudor Fieldhouse.
http://ofur.rice.edu/content.aspx?id=4294967413

Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, the following prizes were awarded at RURS 2013. http://ofur.rice.edu/content.aspx?id=4294967621

The 2013 International Space Apps Challenge has announced the 20 challenges that will feature in this year’s event.

Details can be found at http://spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/.

The Rice Space Institute is bringing this year’s event to Rice University and Houston as the 80 participating locations around this world.

More information on the International Space Apps Challenge can be found at http://spaceappschallenge.org/

Alan Bean, astronaut and artist, enthralled an overflow crowd at Duncan Hall on March 21 in the final Space Frontiers Lecture of the year where he told stories and imparted philosophy about how the human race got to the moon and what it all meant.

In the last of this season’s Space Frontiers Lectures, Apollo astronaut Alan Bean entertains at Rice.

See article by Mike Williams for details.

Accelerating Innovation: How organizations target breakthroughs in Human Health and Performance   Dr. Jeff Davis,   Director Human Health and Performance, NASA Johnson Space Center

March 15, 2013
12:00 p.m.
Herman Brown Hall 227

Click here for more information.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science presents Graduate Seminar Series Speaker

Lee Morin
NASA Johnson Space Center

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mechanical Engineering Building – Room 128
Rice University

Abstract: Dr. Morin will discuss concepts for applying telepresence robotics on the surface of the Moon to bootstrap in-situ industrial capability. He will also give highlights of his flight on Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-110 mission to the International Space Station.