Rice Design Alliance - Focuses on the advancement of architecture, urban design, and the built environment in the Houston region through educational programs, the publication of Cite, and active programs to initiate physical improvements. Rice Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning - Addresses the ways in which information technology can expand and enrich education on the Rice campus as well as in other settings. Rice University Media Center - Research in film and photography, video production, media studies, and the digital arts. Rice University Programming Languages Team - Conducts research on the principles of program design, programming languages, and programming environments. It also disseminates an innovative introductory curriculum on computing. The Journal of Southern History - Sponsored by Rice University. Published quarterly by The Southern Historical Association. Printed by the Sheridan Press, Hanover, Pennsylvania. Site has table of contents for past issues back to 1995. The Papers of Jefferson Davis - A documentary editing project providing selections of letters, speeches, family and personal information, and photographs. Rice Quantum Institute - RQI performs research in molecular physics. Programs include clusters and nanostructures, surface and materials science, physics of ultracold atoms, electronic materials and devices, and laser development and applications. Center for Multimedia Communication - Performs research in many facets of telecommunications, from multimedia networking to communications systems and signal processing. Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology - Performs applied interdisciplinary research in the areas of computer and information technology. Atomcool - The research group of Dr. Randall G. Hulet in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. Investigating atoms at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy - Develops teaching and research programs that address the moral, legal, and public policy questions raised by health care and the biomedical sciences. James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy - A non-partisan organization focusing on the study, formulation, execution, and criticism of public policy. Center for Education - Research and teacher development programs to reduce teacher isolation, reorganize schools to make students more involved in learning, and rethink ways to evaluate students' learning. Scalar Compiler Group - Works to improve the quality of optimization and code generation for microprocessor-based, uniprocessor systems. Overview, personnel, alumni and software. Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering - Promotes cross-disciplinary research and education. History, educational programs, research areas, events and news. Texas Center for Crystallography at Rice University - Serves as a multi-institution resource in Texas for small molecule crystallographic research and education. Rice University Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Group - Site has the department's history, alumni, faculty, research and publications, software tools and DSP teaching tools. Rice Space Institute - Specializes in interdisciplinary research and education. Calendar of meetings and lectures and a list of projects. Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies - News, programs, facilities, post docs, technology transfer, and sponsored research. Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling - An inter-institutional group of researchers focusing on development of advanced computational methods and tools for flow simulation and modeling. Gulf Coast Consortia - Computational, physical and biological scientists work to incorporate theory, simulation, and experiment to expand understanding of modern biological problems.