Rice student startups take the stage at Lilie’s Summer Venture Studio Preview Day
Seven student startups showcased their ventures at the Summer Venture Studio Preview Day hosted by Rice University’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The three-month intensive program is meant to provide equity-free funding and individualized support.
Global energy demand hits record high, raising new questions for energy policy
Global energy use reached an unprecedented milestone in 2025, highlighting both advances in clean energy and the continued dominance of fossil fuels, according to the 75th annual Statistical Review of World Energy. Experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a conversation the Review’s producer, the Energy Institute, July 29 to provide context and discuss the projected future of energy consumption.
To build lifelong AI, teach it to forget
A new monograph published in Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, Yueyang Liu, assistant professor of operations management at Rice Business, and co-authors at Stanford University argue that forgetting is not simply a bug for AI. In real-world settings, these systems face hard constraints on memory and computing power. They cannot, and should not, try to remember everything.
Uncertainty and the future of North American trade discussed by international experts
The Claudio X. González Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy convened leading trade experts to examine the implications of the U.S. decision not to renew the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on July 1, and what the prolonged negotiations could mean for North American businesses.
The secret to continuous creativity with gen AI
Published in the journal Information Systems Research and co-authored by Jing Zhou, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management at Rice Business, the paper explores “augmented learning,” a process in which people and AI actively adjust to each other across creative tasks, gradually improving what they can produce together.
New research shows the hidden challenges facing religious scientists
A recent study from Rice’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance titled “Religious Representation in Science: How Scientists in the United States, Mexico and South Africa Respond” explores the aspect of religious representation in science.
Rice entrepreneurship’s Summer Venture Studio selects nine ventures for 2026 cohort
Rice’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has selected nine student-led ventures for the 2026 Summer Venture Studio, its flagship venture-building experience designed to help ambitious founders transform breakthrough ideas into venture-scale companies. The selected teams represent industries ranging from health care and artificial intelligence to advanced manufacturing, robotics, agriculture and defense technology.
Rice Business launches early career track within MBA@Rice Online Program
Rice Business today announced the launch of a new Early Career Track within its MBA@Rice Online MBA program. The new track gives high-potential professionals with less than three years of work experience a path to earn their MBA earlier in their careers. The program will launch with the October cohort and applications are open now.
‘Timely and urgent’: Conference studies pathways to religious pluralism
The Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance at Rice held the third annual Convening on Religious Violence and Religious Pluralism, a creative conference that brings together emerging and established academic experts from around the world to energize the intellectual climate around issues of religious pluralism and to spur interdisciplinary research on the conditions that foster and inhibit religious pluralism and religious conflict and violence.
Rice’s Baker Institute launches Eastern Mediterranean Energy Center with U.S. Department of Energy
Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy welcomed dignitaries from the United States, Cyprus, Greece and Israel on June 11 to mark the launch of the Eastern Mediterranean Energy Center (EMEC), a new initiative focused on advancing energy security, regional stability and international collaboration.
Hot temps, cold treats at annual Ice Cream Social
Rice staff enjoyed a sweet afternoon of appreciation at the June 4 Ice Cream Social, hosted by Staff Council and served by university leadership.
Rice Business has partnered with Service to School (S2S), a national nonprofit that helps veterans and service members access higher education, adding a new admissions and outreach partner to the school’s growing ecosystem of support for military-affiliated students.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright will be at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy June 11 to participate in a signing ceremony with the institute’s Center for Energy Studies. The signing commemorates the establishment of a global partnership in line with U.S. commitment to energy security.
Rapid changes in federal health policy result in uninsured Americans, Baker Institute report shows
A new health policy research brief from the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice is drawing attention to the sweeping pace of health care policy changes implemented during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second administration.
Rice students modernizing dental clinics with AI
A student-founded health care startup is fixing the busiest and most overlooked part of a dental clinic: the front desk. For co-founder and Rice University junior Adhira Tippur, it all started at her mother’s clinic in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
