Weekly Roundup is a McNair Center series compiling and summarizing the week’s most important Entrepreneurship and Innovation news. Here is what you need to know about innovation this week: Silicon Valley Reels in Wake of Trump’s Presidential Victory Joshua Brustein and… Continue Reading
Economists around the world emphasize the benefits of integrating more women into the workforce. While we are seeing slow growth in women’s presence in many sectors, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields at the core of innovation seem… Continue Reading
The results on Tuesday are a sign that marijuana prohibition’s days are numbered, leaving only the question of when it will end completely. Chipping away at marijuana prohibition is also crucial to ending the war on drugs, which has had devastating consequences, not least of which are the racial disparities it has created in the criminal justice system. Continue Reading
Increasing vaccination rates throughout the state will help prevent future outbreaks of preventable diseases, which require millions of dollars for emergency response measures and compromise public and personal health. Reforming school-entry vaccination exemption policies will maximize public health benefits, cut health care costs and uphold personal liberties through increased informed consent. Continue Reading
Outside of Texas, Tuesday night and Wednesday morning were full of surprises, with Donald Trump running most of the table among the major toss-up states and crashing through large portions of Hillary Clinton’s blue firewall. In Texas, however, the surprises were relatively few and far between. Continue Reading
This month the McNair Center is spotlighting Rice entrepreneurs to celebrate National Entrepreneurship Month. To kick off our series, we sat down with Andrew Maust, operations manager for East-West Tea. East-West Tea East-West Tea began in the spring of 2016 as a… Continue Reading
While President Daniel Ortega has successfully revitalized Nicaragua’s economy, his third consecutive reelection signals a turn toward a consolidated power structure that dismantles democracy and silences dissent in the country. Continue Reading