Rice bioengineers develop biochemical halo to cloak insulin-producing cells from body defenses
Rice researchers engineered a living factory.
Rice welcomes record field of athletes for Genuine Cup, advancing global inclusion through sport
Rice once again served as host institution and title sponsor for the Genuine Cup, welcoming a record number of neurodiverse athletes from around the world for the 2026 tournament and reinforcing its commitment to inclusion, accessibility and community engagement.
Rice remembers trustee emeritus Doyle Arnold, champion of economics education and public discourse
Rice trustee emeritus, whose generosity helped shape generations of Rice students, remembered.
Rice Emerging Scholars Program gives incoming STEM students a head start — and a community
Before their first semester at Rice begins, 38 incoming students are already getting a taste of what it means to be a Rice student: tackling demanding STEM courses, learning how to study collaboratively, meeting faculty and building a community they can rely on when classes begin in the fall.
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.
Rice to lead $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications
Rice will lead a $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications.
This summer, Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies expanded horizons and sparked personal expression through Lifelong University, an innovative education initiative custom-designed by the school’s Center for Community Learning and Engagement for retirement community residents.
Rice researcher honored for advancing science behind AI and human assessment
Rice psychological scientist recognized with early career award for distinguished contributions to research methods research, practice, education and service.
Students tackle real-world engineering challenges through SEED summer internship
Undergraduate students from Rice and Kenyatta University in Kenya gathered at Rice’s Bioscience Research Collaborative to showcase the results of seven weeks spent designing solutions to real-world engineering challenges.
Rice has announced a major expansion of the Rice Investment, its signature financial aid program, offering free tuition to students from families earning up to $200,000 annually.
New controls allow researchers to incorporate thermal effects in quantum simulation
Rice physicist Guido Pagano unveiled a new, two-knob control for a trapped-ion quantum simulator that allows individual control of temperature and dissipation.
Bun B is back on campus: Trill Burgers coming to Rice University
Trill Burgers, the award-winning smashed burger concept from legendary rapper and entrepreneur Bernard Freeman (Bun B), is coming to Rice. Beginning Aug. 17 for new student orientation, Trill Burgers will serve at the Rice Memorial Center throughout the fall and spring semesters, bringing its beef and vegan burgers to the Rice campus.
Rice researchers develop technology to clean salty wastewater while recovering valuable metals
A team led by Shihong Lin has shown that electrochemical ion pumping can be programmed to desalinate wastewater while selectively recovering dissolved metals such as copper.
Shedding light on new type of magnetism in quantum materials
Rice's Ming Yi recently showed that the quantum material ruthenium dioxide potentially displays this new altermagnetism in its ultrathin film form in which the material is prepared as a very thin slice only a few atomic layers thick.
Humans to Mars and Moon Summit held at Rice
The 2026 Humans to Mars and the Moon Summit (H2M2), hosted by the nonprofit Explore Mars, was recently held at Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborative.