HOUSTON, May 14, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Rice University and Université Paris
Sciences & Lettres (PSL), two of the world's leading urban
research and higher education institutions, have signed a strategic
partnership for research and innovation on major global challenges
and opportunities. The announcement was made May 13 in Paris.
Rice and
Université PSL collaboration aims to advance research on major
global challenges.
With this ambitious collaboration, the two universities aim to
advance research in the fields of energy and climate; quantum
computing and artificial intelligence; global health and medicine;
and urban futures.
Rice and Université PSL share a
multidisciplinary approach in the field of the humanities, arts and
sciences; the excellence of their undergraduate education; and,
with the Rice Global Paris Center, proximity to the center of
Paris and other international
hubs.
It is their common research priorities that led to the coming
together of these two institutions and their researchers, the
universities' presidents said. The partnership will spur
conferences on the four research priorities, the first of which
will take place May 14 at the Rice
Global Paris Center.
Subsequently, a biannual call for projects will select joint
research projects that will be financially supported by the two
institutions. The engagement between these two major universities
will allow new research and education topics to emerge to meet the
needs of the future.
"We are honored and excited to partner with Paris Sciences
and Lettres University and join forces to advance bold
innovation and find solutions to the biggest global challenges of
our time," Rice President Reginald DesRoches said. "The
unique strengths and ambitions of our faculty, students,
scholarship and research are what brings us together, and our
passion and hope to build a better future for all is what will
drive our partnership agenda. Representing two distinct geographic,
economic and cultural regions known for ingenuity and excellence,
Rice and PSL's efforts will know
no bounds."
"This is a global and cross-disciplinary partnership that will
benefit from both a bottom-up, research-driven dynamic and a
top-down commitment at the highest level," PSL
President Alain Fuchs said. "The quality and
complementarity of the researchers from PSL and Rice who mobilized for this event give us
reason to believe that this partnership will get off to a rapid and
productive start. It will offer a strong framework to all the PSL
schools for developing collaborations within their areas of
strength and their natural partners at Rice."
Université PSL, which combines 11 of the most elite research
institutes and universities in France into a single entity, brings a unique
community of 2,900 world-class researchers and 140 research
laboratories to the partnership, while Rice matches the same academic breadth and
excellence and adds to the mix distinct research opportunities
because of its location in Houston, leaders said. The coastal city,
considered the most diverse metropolis in the United States, is known as the energy
transition capital of the world, the home to the Texas Medical
Center, the globe's leading health care complex, and for its
pioneering history and leadership in space exploration and
industry.
Video of the May 13 event can be
viewed here.
About Rice
University
Located on a 300-acre forested campus
in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the
nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report.
Rice has highly respected schools
of architecture, business, continuing studies, engineering,
humanities, music, natural sciences and social sciences and is home
to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. With 4,574 undergraduates
and 3,982 graduate students, Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio
is just under 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds
close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason
why Rice is ranked No. 1 for lots
of race/class interaction, No. 2 for best-run colleges and No. 12
for quality of life by the Princeton Review. Rice is also rated as a best value among
private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. In 2022,
Rice opened a research campus in
Paris's Le Marais district, the
Rice Global Paris Center, where it hosts more than 50 research
conferences per year in the fields of the arts, humanities,
sciences and engineering.
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