Skip to main content
Body
Shield
Rice University News and Media Relations Office of Public Affairs

Main Nav

Rachel Leeson

A group of students, including Black, white, and Muslim students stand circled around a tree, with their back to its bark. They are looking at each other or down at the ground.

Part of campus transforms into living laboratory for Rice and visiting Alief students

February 19, 2026

Rice students in TREEStem class teach visiting Alief students ecological techniques using the campus as a living laboratory.

Sylvia Dee

Multimodel isotope simulations reveal unified picture of Earth’s water cycle

February 16, 2026

An international research team, including scientists from Rice, the University of Tokyo and NASA, has completed the first fully standardized comparison of isotope-enabled climate models.

Six men, all in suits, are gathered around a cake. Each man is cutting a piece of a cake with a small plastic knife and smiling at the camera

Rice hosts inaugural Houston Space Galette in honor of Texas-France Space Hub’s first anniversary

February 13, 2026

The Texas-France Space hub's first annual Houston Space Galette, held Feb. 12, fostered dialogue within the Houston space community.

A lemur is standing in a tree in the Madagascar rainforest, staring directly at the camera.

Strawberry guava prevents natural forest generation in Madagascar

February 5, 2026

Rice researchers find that strawberry guava, an invasive plant, can prevent natural forest generation in areas of Madagascar's Ranomafana National Rainforest, even decades after deforestation has ended.

artemis II

Rice experts available to discuss NASA’s Artemis II

January 27, 2026

Experts from Rice are available to share insight on key aspects of NASA’s Artemis II mission.

José Onuchic wins the 2023 Founders Award presented by the Biophysical Society.

New data-driven 3D chromosome model reveals structural and dynamic features of DNA

January 23, 2026

Rice researchers develop a new and effective approach for creating 3D maps of chromosomes from real-world data.

An older white man, standing with arms crossed, is in front of a bookshelf.

Rice researchers replicating Edison’s 1879 light bulb experiments show graphene may have been unintentional by-product

January 22, 2026

Researchers at Rice produced graphene by replicating Edison's 1879 light bulb experiments.

An older white man, Peter Wolynes, smiles slightly in front of a sunny window. He is wearing glasses and a multicolored bowtie.

Newly identified protein dark energy provides insight into form vs function in protein structure

January 22, 2026

Rice researchers and collaborators recently published a paper describing the “dark energy” found in the structural protein universe.

Photo of Louis Brus, a smiling older white man with glasses

Brus, Rice alumnus and Nobel laureate, passes away at 82

January 12, 2026

Rice is mourning the loss of Louis Brus ’65, a visionary alumnus and Nobel Prize laureate who passed away peacefully Jan. 9.

Body
Current Featured Releases Alerts Dateline Contact BACK TO TOP

6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005-1827 |

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892 |

713-348-0000 | Privacy Policy | Campus Carry