MEDIA ADVISORY

NOTE: ***Media must RSVP and all times are in CDT***

HOUSTON – (June 7, 2023) – Tomorrow, June 8, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Director Evelyn N. Wang will visit Rice University to make a commercialization announcement and host “ARPA-E on the Road: Houston,” an event from 1-5 p.m. to spotlight local ARPA-E awardees and share information about work underway at ARPA-E.

Wang will be joined by Rice University President Reginald DesRoches (virtual address), Rice Vice President for Research Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Quaise Co-Founder and CEO Carlos Araque, Quidnet CEO Joe Zhou and Onboard Dynamics CEO Rita Hansen. The event will also feature presentations from ARPA-E program directors, fellows and technology-to-market advisers.

WHAT: Commercialization announcement and “ARPA-E on the Road: Houston.”

WHERE: Rice University.

WHEN: 1-5 p.m. Thursday, June 8. Press check-in at 12:45 p.m. Event begins at 1 p.m.

To RSVP, contact Molly Morrissey at [email protected] or 608-385-6799.

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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 4,240 undergraduates and 3,972 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 and No. 4 for quality of life by the Princeton Review. Rice is also rated as a best value among private universities by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.