As Rice prepares to celebrate the Class of 2025 at commencement May 9-10, Rice News is spotlighting a series of soon-to-be graduates....
Rice sociologist and religious scholar Craig Considine is available to provide analysis and commentary on the Catholic Church’s next leader and the fi...
Senior Spotlight: Jae Kim ’25...
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As Rice University prepares to celebrate the Class of 2025 at commencement May 9-10, Rice News is spotlighting a series of standout seniors....
Rice President Reginald DesRoches, a nationally recognized leader in resilient infrastructure and engineering education, has been elected to the 2025 ...
Persona AI, the Houston-based humanoid robotics startup that recently closed $25 million in pre-seed funding, is significantly expanding its operation...
OwlSpark, Rice’s startup and small business accelerator for Rice-affiliated ventures, brings together 11 companies in the program’s 13th year who repr...
A team of researchers from Rice, Carnegie Mellon University and other leading global institutions has outlined a bold new roadmap for harnessing heter...
Rice University experts are available to discuss Kosmos 482....
Rice's Moshe Vardi was honored with the Defender of Courage Award at the Holocaust Remembrance Association’s Upstanders Arise gala at the George Theat...
Christopher Johns-Krull , professor of physics and astronomy, will serve as interim executive vice president for research, beginning July 1....
Senior Spotlight: Sophianne Loh ’25
April 10, 2025
Sophianne Loh, a bioengineering major from Chicago, found her home at Rice in the strong sense of community and top-tier research opportunities.
‘Oscars of Science’ Breakthrough Prize honors Rice physicists
April 10, 2025
An international team of physicists, including Rice’s Paul Padley, Frank Geurts, Karl Ecklund, Wei Li and Darin Acosta, was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
April 9, 2025
For three days in April, scholars, experiencers and independent researchers gathered not to solve the mystery but to examine its place in our evolving cultural, political and philosophical landscape.
At Rice, art becomes a toolkit for repair
April 9, 2025
At the busy intersection of academic life and everyday student traffic, a striking white and yellow structure has appeared on Rice’s campus.
Rice students develop low-cost vibrotactile glove to help treat Parkinson’s disease
April 9, 2025
A pair of Rice students are harnessing cutting-edge neuroscience to design an affordable, wearable solution for people living with Parkinson’s disease around the world.
Owls set to host Blue-Gray Weekend
April 9, 2025
Rice Athletics will host an action-packed weekend of competitions as part of its annual Blue Gray Weekend, Friday through Sunday.
Author Sandy Tolan discusses free speech and the Middle East at Rice Reflects event
April 9, 2025
Rice Reflects, an initiative from the Office of the Provost, brought bestselling author Sandy Tolan to McMurtry Auditorium March 10 to discuss free speech and the historical context of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Owls earn top 50 win, defeat Wichita State 4-0
April 9, 2025
The 48th-ranked Rice Owls women's tennis team took down the 49th-ranked Wichita State Shockers April 8 at the George R. Brown Tennis Center to improve to 15-5 on the year.
Visual Communication Symposium explores AI, complex data
April 9, 2025
Rice’s Program in Writing and Communication hosted the fifth iteration of the Visual Communication Symposium at the Moody Center for the Arts last month.
Researchers unlock hidden pathway to tunable magnetic devices
April 9, 2025
Led by Pengcheng Dai, researchers uncovered the cause behind a vanishing electronic phenomenon in a class of crystalline materials known as kagome lattice.