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*More than 26,000 individuals have attended Rice Alliance events in the past nine years and over 24,000 individuals subscribe to the Rice Alliance Digest newsletter

Rice University has initiatives that form part of its industry collaboration. These include: '''The Virginia and L.E. Simmons Family Foundation Collaborative Research Fund'''. The foundation generously provided $3 million over five years for collaborative research among investigators at Rice University, Texas Children’s Hospital, and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute.

*The program is designed to promote truly excellent, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research among investigators at the three institutions

*The program focuses on junior investigators who have not yet established funding as well as experienced investigators who are new to collaboration among the three institutions

Rice's '''Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology''' has on-going research collaboration with '''nanoAlberta''', part of '''Alberta Advanced Education and Technology''' in Canada, to address issues surrounding the production of petrochemicals from Alberta's oil sands, one of the world's largest reserves of recoverable oil.