Lobbying Filing Details

Total Spending

$80,000

Activities

3

Lobbyists

1

Gov't Entities

6

Filing Information
Filing UUID:
f51de462-751c-4b62-bec0-b0f88b101c32
Type:
Q1 - 1st Quarter - Report
Period:
2026 - 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
Date Posted:
April 20, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Income:
$0
Expenses:
$80,000
Expense Method:
A
Document URL:
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Quick Info
  • Document Type: text/html
  • Posted By: Nathan Cook
Registrant
RICE UNIVERSITY

Private institution of higher education

Houston, Texas
Client
RICE UNIVERSITY
Texas, United States of America
Lobbying Activities (3)
Activity 1
Budget/Appropriations

Defense Appropriations, Air Force RDTE, programmatic increase of $10 million to PE 0602102F, Materials, for South Dakota-Texas Research, Innovation, and Defense Endeavor Defense Appropriations, Army RDTE, programmatic increase of $10 million to PE 0601102A, Defense Research Sciences, for Advanced X-comm Integrated Sensing & Security Defense Appropriations, Army RDTE, programmatic increase of $10 million to PE0602146A, Network C3I Technology, for Versatile Incursion-Sensing and Tamper-Adaptive Systems Defense Appropriations, Army RDTE, programmatic increase of $6 million to PE 0602144A, Ground Technology, for Flash joule heating manufacturing of MXenes Defense Appropriations, Navy RDTE, programmatic increase of $10 million to PE 0601153N, Defense Research Sciences, for Multi-functional Advanced Composites for Extreme Environments Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, in the NASA - Safety, Security and Mission Services account, support FY27 community project funding request on behalf of Alief ISD and Rice University, jointly requesting $2.2 million at NASA for a Planetary Science Partnership STEM education program.

Lobbyists (1)
  • NATHAN COOK
Government Entities (2)
  • SENATE
  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Activity 2
Science/Technology

Issues pertaining an applied energy and industrial technology laboratory for U.S. competitiveness and addressing the gap between applied research and full commercial deployment for large-scale energy and industrial technologies. Issues pertaining to funding for NSF MSRI project MSRI-2, Safe Insights, national research infrastructure for large-scale learning science and engineering. Issues pertaining to the establishment of a NIST public-private partnership, authorizing a "Primary Standards Calibration Facility" and graduate program in metrology. Support S. 3971 Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act and issues pertaining to reauthorization for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

Lobbyists (1)
  • NATHAN COOK
Government Entities (2)
  • SENATE
  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Activity 3
Sports/Athletics

Support H.R. 4312, the SCORE Act, to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of student athletes and to promote fair competition with respect to intercollegiate athletics, and federal standards for name-image-likeness, hard caps on universities, enforcement for NIL rule violations, collegiate agents and transfer portal reforms.

Lobbyists (1)
  • NATHAN COOK
Government Entities (2)
  • SENATE
  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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