hschmidt 
Wednesday, 17th of September 2008 at 06:18:28 PM
Hurricane Ike has given us a massive object lesson on the importance of implementing the late Rick Smalley’s vision of the Store-Gen Grid (SGG; graphic courtesy Wade Adams at Rice’s Smalley Institute) – a highly distributed network of granular electric production and storage. One of the elements of the SGG concept is a [...]
hschmidt 
Thursday, 24th of July 2008 at 11:24:16 PM
Dr. Howard Schmidt is a native Texan, a long-time Houston resident and a serial entrepreneur. He grew up San Antonio and moved to Houston to attend Rice University, where he got a BS in electrical engineering in 1980, and then a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1986.  Since then he has been involved in [...]
kurt 
Thursday, 7th of February 2008 at 12:02:37 AM
The Rice Alliance has gone and outdone themselves again by nearly doubling the amount of funds that will be awarded at this year’s Business Plan Competition. They will be awarding over $600,000 dollars in funds for approximately 36 different graduate teams from around the world, which enables them to lay claim to hosting “the largest and [...]
Josh Tabin 
Tuesday, 11th of December 2007 at 12:43:56 PM
Updating a previous post…
7th Annual Rice Alliance Nanotechnology Venture Forum
Event Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008
Rice University, McNair Hall, Jones Graduate School of Management
9:00 am to 5:00 pm – Program
5:00 pm – Networking Reception & Company Showcase
To register and more Information: click here
Early Registration Deadline: Monday, January 21st at 5:00 pm
WHY ATTEND?
Hear renowned nanotechnology [...]
Josh Tabin 
Wednesday, 5th of December 2007 at 04:30:33 PM
The Rice Alliance has announced a date for the 2008 Nanotechnology Forum. It will be January 24, 2008 at the Jones School (McNair Hall) at Rice University (map here). Please mark your calendars for a mind blowing time.
I went last year and was thoroughly impressed with the nanotech growth we have seen here in Houston. [...]
Josh Tabin 
Saturday, 3rd of November 2007 at 07:36:42 PM
When I first met Walter Ulrich at a Houston Technology Center event, what I gathered most about him was that this guy was the real deal: a true “pocket protector” geek in the most admiring sense of the word. Ulrich has been a pioneer in the information technology sector for almost 40 years. In the [...]
Josh Tabin 
Tuesday, 14th of August 2007 at 09:49:44 PM
I had breakfast this morning with Stuart Page, CEO of Houston-based startup, GloriOil. I first noticed GloriOil after they announced an infusion of capital from their investors (see blog post from last week). Turns out that Stuart and I have some mutual friends so we met up today to chat.
GloriOil is very interesting to me [...]
kurt 
Friday, 22nd of December 2006 at 05:06:31 PM
The 6th Annual Rice Alliance Nanotechnolgy Venture Forum is just around the corner and will show off one of Houston’s key areas of strength. Last year, they had over 500 attendees and I hear that this year looks to be even bigger than last.
According to the site…
” You should attend the forum if you [...]
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