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More than 700 Owls will walk across the stage at Tudor Fieldhouse to receive their degrees Dec. 5 during Rice University’s 2023 December commencement ceremony. Making up these graduates is a flock of talented students who will soon go on to become leaders and innovators across the country and the globe, using the knowledge and […]
Contact:APHISPress@usda.gov On October 5, Ecuador opened its domestic market for U.S.-origin rough rice, allowing for a potential $155 million annual market for American rice producers. This decision followed consultations with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and industry officials. Ecuador’s national plant protection organization, Agencia . . .
Alexander X. Byrd, the vice provost for the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Rice University, poses for a portrait on campus. Credit: Callaghan O’Hare for The Texas Tribune HOUSTON — It’s 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning in September and Alexander X. Byrd’s daylong, meeting-packed marathon across Rice University’s lush grounds is just […]
Sherwin K. Bryant, a leading scholar of slavery, race and the early modern African diaspora, will join Rice University Jan. 1 as director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) and an associate professor in the Department of History. Sherwin K. Bryant. Photo credit: Naiyah C. Bryant. “I am honored to join […]
Harayana, India CNN — Satish Kumar sits in front of his submerged rice paddy in India’s Haryana state, looking despairingly at his ruined crops. “I’ve suffered a tremendous loss,” said the third generation farmer, who relies solely on growing the grain to feed his young family. “I will not be able to . . .
Rice prices surged to their highest in almost 12 years, after supplies in Asia’s primary staple food were limited by India’s rice export ban and adverse weather conditions. Elevated global food stocks, particularly in Asia, help insulate production volatility and minimize the economic impact from a consumer standpoint, Morgan Stanley said in a report. Nomura […]
Last month, three days after Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal, India imposed a ban on July 20 on the export of non-basmati white rice. The move followed a ban on the export of broken rice, which was announced in September last year and is still in place. India’s reasons were domestic […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Chatter on one of Prabha Rao’s WhatsApp groups exploded last week when India announced that it was severely curtailing some rice exports to the rest of the world, triggering worry among the Indian diaspora in the United States that access to a food staple from home might soon be cut off. […]
India’s ban on rice export triggers panic buying across the U.S. NBC News Source link
At the Association of Rice Alumni’s 2023 Laureates Awards ceremony May 4, the group will bestow its highest honor — the Gold Medal Award — to Kathleen Shive Matthews and Scott W. Wise ’71. The annual ceremony will also honor several prominent alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award and several members of the Rice community […]