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Beyond the Hedges

The Association of Rice Alumni

Rice University is home to an abundance of brilliant minds, game-changing research and unique stories. Now alumni and friends don’t have to be on campus — or even in Houston — to experience Rice’s vibrant intellectual life. Each month, we’re bringing Rice’s spirit of lifelong learning beyond the hedges, to you!

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00:41:57

Innovating the Future: Taking on Forever Chemicals...

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2025/12/10

We recorded a special episode of Beyond the Hedges live at Alumni Weekend where host David Mansouri got a chance to have a conversation with Rice alums and PhDs in material science and nanoengineering Alec Ajnsztajn and Jeremy Daum about their exciting new undertaking, complete with questions from the audience.Alec and Jeremy are co-founders of Coflux Purification, a company that grew out of the Rice Office of Innovation, and now does pioneering work with forever chemicals, or PFAS. They explain the

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00:41:47

Digital Futures: AI's Role at Rice University feat....

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2025/11/12

How do schools prepare for the changing landscape of both education and business with the pace of advancements in technology and specifically in artificial intelligence (AI)? What lessons were learned from the rapid shift to digital that happened during the pandemic and how can that knowledge improve the way higher education works today?Shawn Miller is the Associate Provost for Digital Learning and Strategy at Rice University. Shawn serves as the key steward of Rice’s digital strategy where he

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00:00:55

Season 4 Trailer

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2025/10/29

Welcome back to a brand new season of Beyond the Hedges!

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00:32:06

Leveraging Rice Research for Climate Tech Innovation...

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2025/03/12

Refining raw material into metals is both the core of many industries, and also a very tricky process to balance in an age where carbon neutrality is increasingly the goal. What are new ways that can affect this process to better both the environmental impacts and also align with the profit and growth goals of the companies doing the work themselves? Haotian Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice.Bryan Guido Hassin is an entrepreneur and the

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00:28:08

Navigating Climate Challenges and Solutions feat....

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2025/02/12

With climate, the present is connected to both the past and the future. Historical data from paleoclimatology holds insights that can inform our understanding of future risks, and using AI in climate modeling may be the key to linking the two. Sylvia Dee is an assistant professor and climate scientist at Rice University specializing in climate change and the past, present, and future of Earth’s hydrological cycle. Sylvia’s research focuses on how Earth’s modes of natural variability, like El Niño

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00:38:01

Exploring the World of Music feat. Emmy Award-Winning...

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2025/01/08

How does a young boy from Lima, Peru grow up to become a world-renowned conductor? What is the role of the conductor in the music their orchestra is performing? What new goals do the Shepherd School of Music have for the 2025-2026 school year?Miguel Harth-Bedoya is an Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated conductor, and also the Mary Franks Thompson Professor of Orchestral Studies at Baylor University and overseer of the Shepherd School’s preeminent orchestral programs in the 2025-26 season. Miguel and

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00:39:54

Live Recording - Urban Architecture for the Future...

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2024/12/11

How is the Rice Architecture department preparing its students for the difficult challenges of today and the unknown urban challenges of the future? What is a megalopolitan city and how should design choices shift when dealing with multiple city centers? How can architects affect car use in cities?Let us know you’re listening by filling out this form. We will be sending listeners Beyond the Hedges Swag every month.This episode was recorded live at Rice University's Alumni Weekend, and features host

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00:26:41

Innovations in Bioengineering and Education feat. Dr....

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2024/11/13

How is the Rice Bioengineering Capstone Design course integral in the development of students in the bioengineering department and across all engineering disciplines? How do Rice students benefit from being at an institution that prioritizes premier teaching and research?Dr. Sabia Zehra Abidi is an assistant teaching professor in bioengineering at Rice with expertise in stem cell research, microfluidics, and disease treatment. Dr. Abidi shares her journey through the field, from research to

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00:39:05

AI, Bias, and Ethics in Hiring feat. Fred Oswald

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2024/10/09

As AI grows and becomes more accessible, it's changing our lives in many ways—including the workforce. Our guest today is an expert in organization and workforce development who will tell us how AI is shaping the hiring process. Fred Oswald is a Professor at Rice and the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences. His Organization & Workforce Laboratory (OWL) at Rice focuses on selection and job performance models in organizational, educational, and military contexts, as predicted by individual

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00:00:55

Season 3 Trailer

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2024/10/02

The fall semester is in full swing, and we are thrilled to announce the return of Beyond The Hedges! It’s been a while, so let’s get reacquainted. Our new host is David Mansouri, Rice alum and president of the Association of Rice Alumni board. This season, we’ll be spotlighting incredible members of the Rice community who are making a lasting impact on our university, Houston, and the world.Join us starting October 9th, and every 2nd Wednesday of the month. While you wait, catch up on previous

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00:35:57

What is Hate?

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2022/04/19

“Hate is not something you can be indifferent about and just find middle ground. You have to denounce it whenever you find it,” says Luis Duno-Gottberg. In this episode, the Professor of Caribbean and Film Studies discusses his experience teaching one of the Humanities Department’s “Big Question Courses.” The question he and his students contend with is “what is hate?” Duno-Gottberg’s cross-discipline approach to the course and this conversation leaves a lot the think about both within ourselves

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00:33:20

Workplace Allyship

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2022/03/01

How do unconscious, embedded stereotypes shape our behavior towards each other? And how do these behaviors subtlety affect a person’s self-confidence? Eden King, Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Psychology, does research that seeks to guide the equitable and effective management of diverse organizations. Listen in as she discusses her eye-opening findings on women in the workplace, parenting during lockdown and how to be an ally to your colleagues.

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00:36:35

Disability is a Diversity Issue

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2021/09/23

“Am I disabled because of my impairment or am I disabled because of attitudes in society?” This thought-provoking question is posed by this episode’s guest, the Director of the Disability Resource Center here at Rice University, Alan Russell. Whether visible or invisible, disabilities affect so many different people, but they are still stigmatized by society. Russell discusses barrier free accessibility, making sure to practice compassion instead of pity, and the importance of intersectional work

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01:04:14

The Docs

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2021/02/10

Every Friday at noon during the fall and spring semesters, you can find Byrd and McDaniel leading a live webinar on Zoom for the Rice community, examining and discussing old documents and photographs from Rice’s past. Through a series of weekly webinars called Doc Talks, the history professors illuminate important research from historians and students with regards to racism and racial injustice. The webinars are then turned into podcast episodes and feature an added analysis by Beyond the Hedges

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00:56:39

Houston Part Three: It's Up to Us

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2021/02/08

In the final episode of our three part series with Stephen Klineberg, we grapple with how to make Houston successful in the 21st century given the deep class divides, inaccessibility to quality education, and exploitation of immigrant workers. Steve says “the story of America is the story of immigrants, and we need to get back to that… I tell people all the time that if Houston’s African American and Latino young people are unprepared to succeed, it is impossible to envision a prosperous future for

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00:39:58

Houston Part Two: Unequal Opportunity in a...

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2020/12/07

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00:48:22

Houston Part One: Oil Boom to Bust

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2020/10/27

In the first episode of this three-part series, Stephen Klineberg discusses the research found in his book “Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America,” covering the early days of Houston up until the oil bust in 1982. Klineberg is a professor emeritus of sociology at Rice and the founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. His surveys of Houston over the last 40 years have captured the city’s transformation, and why Houston, as he puts it, “is where, for better or

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00:54:19

Voting in 2020

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2020/09/29

With the huge political divide in the United States, fears around how to vote safely during a pandemic and the recent passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the upcoming presidential election is unlike anything we’ve seen before. What will it take for Americans to feel safe while voting in the wake of COVID-19? What are the concerns around mail-in voting, and are they valid? In this episode, Robert Stein, the fellow in urban politics at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Lena

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00:35:40

The Fallacy of Racial Colorblindness

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2020/08/25

When people say they don’t see color when it comes to race, is this actually a dangerous social lie that means people don’t have to be held accountable? Colorblindness is “premised upon problematic thinking that has framed race relations in the United States… [and is] based upon the assumption difference is a problem to solve, but in wiping out difference we allow whiteness to remain normative,” says Anthony B. Pinn, the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities, professor of religion and director

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01:05:10

Racial Trauma

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2020/08/11

The killing of George Floyd has caused global protests around racial injustice and white supremacy. How does the stress of racial trauma play out in the lives of people in Black and Brown communities? What can we do as a global Rice community to fight racial injustice? Join guest host Vanity Hill, assistant director of alumni regional outreach, as she explores these topics with Tony Brown, sociology professor, race and racism scholar and director of the Racism and Racial Experiences Workgroup.

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