Rice University

Students, scholars contribute to development in Africa

Sponsored by the Energy Forum of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice students and scholars are visiting Lesotho — a country in southern Africa — to create a cost-effective strategy to support sustainable development and energy. The students were selected from an independent study course and will be accompanied by faculty with an expertise in energy policy, environmental engineering, bioengineering and anthropology.

Rice graduate earns French connection

Thanks to a prestigious scholarship, Jonah Shaver ’08 is heading to France. The Rice graduate has been given a J. William Fulbright Scholarship to conduct nanotechnology research at the University of Bordeaux’s Centre de Physique Moleculaire Optique et Hertzienne. Shaver received his doctorate in applied physics from Rice.