R-3 Repository

Rice University Research Repository

The Rice Research Repository (R-3) provides access to research produced at Rice University, including theses and dissertations, journal articles, research center publications, datasets, and academic journals. Managed by Fondren Library, R-3 is indexed by Google and Google Scholar, follows best practices for preservation, and provides DOIs to facilitate citation. Woodson Research Center collections, including Rice Images and Documents and the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation, and Racial Injustice, have moved here.

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Promoting Materials in a Digital World

(Rice University, 2025) Xiong, Anna; Moody, Kaitlyn; Hall, Lauren; Pritchard, Lisa; Caro, Susanne; Fondren Library

How do you promote government publications in a digital world? Hear from a panel of librarians as they share examples of displays, guides, and other tools to promote electronic materials. Learn about what works well and the resources available and tools to help you judge the effectiveness of your efforts.

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Data for Lattice-induced spin dynamics in Dirac magnet CoTiO3

(Rice University, 2025) Zhu, Hanyu; Baydin, Andrey; Materials Science and NanoEngineering

Raw data for the figure plots in the journal article doi: 10.1063/5.0282888

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Hurricane Beryl: Recovery One Year Later

(Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2025) DeLisi, Anna G.; Potter, Daniel; Kinder Institute for Urban Research

On July 8, 2024, Hurricane Beryl made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 80 mph. Across the Houston area, millions of households were left without power for days as the heat index climbed above 100, wind damages were estimated to cost between $2.5 billion and $4.5 billion, and 42 deaths were attributed to the storm. Prior research has described the recovery that took place within the first several weeks following the storm, as well as nearly 6 months after Beryl made landfall, finding that in the more immediate aftermath of the storm, more than 2 in 10 residents in Houston and Harris County said their lives were still either somewhat or very disrupted, and about 4 to 6 months after the storm, just over 1 in 10 residents reported the same. This survey snapshot uses recently collected data from the Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s Greater Houston Community Panel to follow up on earlier work and explore what recovery from Hurricane Beryl looks like 1 year later.

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What’s Important to Workers and Changing Careers in the Greater Houston Area

(Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2025) Potter, Daniel; Kinder Institute for Urban Research

According to Randstad’s Workmonitor 2025, more workers worldwide value a work-life balance over job security or even a well-paying job. A December 2024 report from Pew Research Center also reported 1 in 4 U.S. workers said they were likely to look for a new job in the next 6 months. The continued development and evolution of the Greater Houston economy benefits from understanding its workforce, including what workers value in a job and steps people are taking toward changing careers. To this end, members of the Greater Houston Community Panel—a longitudinal panel study of nearly 10,000 adults in Fort Bend, Harris, and Montgomery counties— were asked to report on their job priorities, current work, and intentions to change careers. This report provides a snapshot of the findings.

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Building the Data and Evaluation Capacity of Nonprofits in the Greater Houston Area: Examining the Role of United Way of Greater Houston’s Coffee & Quality Initiative

(Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2025) Potter, Daniel; Williams, Lee; Davison, Jessica; Kinder Institute for Urban Research

In order to help broaden the skills, abilities, and application of data and evaluation among nonprofit organizations in the Greater Houston region, United Way of Greater Houston launched its Coffee & Quality initiative in fall of 2019. With a commitment to continuously improving its offerings and services, the United Way team in charge of Coffee & Quality, in partnership with the Houston Population Research Center at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, has administered open-access surveys to nonprofits around the Greater Houston area for the past 2 years. The goals of the surveys were to gather feedback on the Coffee & Quality initiative, and better understand the data and evaluation practices of individuals working in the nonprofit sector and the organizations where they worked. This research brief is a summary of what has been learned from these first two surveys