R-3 Repository

Rice University Research Repository

The Rice Research Repository (R-3) provides access to research produced at Rice University, including theses and dissertations, journal articles, research center publications, datasets, and academic journals. Managed by Fondren Library, R-3 is indexed by Google and Google Scholar, follows best practices for preservation, and provides DOIs to facilitate citation. Woodson Research Center collections, including Rice Images and Documents and the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation, and Racial Injustice, have moved here.

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Building an AI-Powered Archive for US Science Policy Documents

(Rice University, 2025) Xu, Yujie; Seaton, Alexa; Fondren Fellows

This project aims to develop an open-source, Django-based web application to support the automated processing of complex, born-digital documents—specifically PDFs released under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The application will serve as a digital repository within the White House Scientist and Science Policy Dynamic Digital Archive, hosted by the Woodson Research Center. Leveraging advanced AI technologies, including optical and layout recognition and integration with Large Language Models (LLMs), the tool will streamline data extraction, analysis, and searchability of irregularly formatted documents, enhancing accessibility and research capabilities.

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Tracking the Black Diaspora along the U.S. Gulf Coast during Slavery: Texas and New Orleans

(Rice University, 2025) Weeks, Sean; Fondren Fellows

The SlaveVoyages.org project has continued to make available records on the traffic of enslaved people to the Americas, especially in the intra-American traffic. Recently, we have focused on pairing images of manifests of the slave voyages with voyage IDs in our database so that the public will be able to easily access the images for their own research. We also aim to strengthen the credibility of our database entries by making our sources clearly available.

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Coffee & Quality Case Study #3: Wesley Community Center

(Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2025) Williams, Lee; Potter, Daniel; Dawson, Lauren; Davison, Jessica; Prucnal, Kelly

The Kinder Institute for Urban Research and United Way of Greater Houston created a program called Coffee & Quality Case Study that works with designated United Way organizations to 1) identify ways to build and bolster the organization's current data-collecting practices and 2) use data to understand and improve program outcomes. The third Coffee & Quality Case Study focused on Wesley Community Center, a social service agency that supports individuals in the Near Northside and broader Houston community across a number of domains, including basic needs, child development, education, senior support, and financial opportunity.

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Terahertz chiral photonic-crystal cavities for Dirac gap engineering in graphene

(Rice University, 2025-04-22) Tay, Fuyang; Alabastri, Alessandro; Kono, Junichiro; Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley–Curl Institute; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Rice Advanced Materials Institute; Department of Physics and Astronomy; Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering

A work proposed a scheme to realize terahertz chiral photonic-crystal cavities with broken time-reversal symmetry and investigated the Dirac gap opening in graphene when coupled to the chiral cavities.

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Center for Teaching Excellence Spring 2025 Newsletter

(Rice University, 2025) Center for Teaching Excellence; Center for Teaching Excellence

Inside this issue: Symposium -- University Awards Ceremony -- Reading Group -- Teaching Research & Partnerships -- AI Updates -- Featured Resources -- Graduate Workshops -- Faculty Fellows