Recent federal developments concerning student visa processing have created increasing uncertainty for many international students. members of Rice le...
The program is designed to deepen students’ fluency in a language essential to the operatic tradition....
The Rice community gathered May 16 to honor a year of accomplishments in the School Literacy and Culture program, part of the Susanne M. Glasscock Sch...
Rice hosted scientists from more than 40 institutions for the 2025 U.S. CMS collaboration meeting....
The program trains students to both analyze and produce media across formats, empowering them to become not just smarter consumers of content but purp...
Six undergraduates from Rice University’s Wiess School of Natural Sciences have been awarded research fellowships as part of the Russell Shearn Moody ...
Community partners across Houston are seeing meaningful results from a unique research partnership with Rice University students....
A research team led by physicists Ming Yi and Emilia Morosan has developed a new material with unique electronic properties that could enable more pow...
Rice University anthropologists examine the societal consequences of global glacier loss in a commentary published in Science....
Martínez joins a distinguished list of honorees that includes fellow and former appointees Norah Jones, Miranda Lambert, Alecia Lawyer, Kevin Prufer a...
David Satterfield, director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, sat down with Ruth Simmons, the President’s Distinguished Fellow a...
In a time of escalating climate risks, crumbling infrastructure and ballooning industrial demand, understanding how water and energy intertwine has ne...
Glasscock School of Continuing Studies launches teaching minor
February 13, 2025
Rice’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies is now offering a minor in teaching, marking the school’s first undergraduate credential.
Rice convenes experts to examine history, identity and global impact of Haiti
February 13, 2025
Exploring Haiti’s colonial past, its revolution and independence and its contemporary challenges, the symposium “Haiti and the World: Global Encounters of the Past, Present and Future” addressed themes such as migration, political resilience, economic struggles and environmental concerns.
Rice Master of Global Affairs students take on international policy negotiation in Paris
February 12, 2025
In their final semester, a group of Master of Global Affairs students applied their academic knowledge in a real-world setting, spending a week in Paris.
Rice’s Lydia Kavraki elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 12, 2025
Rice computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer, for her work on “developing randomized motion-planning algorithms for robotics and robotics-inspired methods in biomedicine.”
Mothers with incarcerated children shoulder emotional and financial burdens
February 12, 2025
The financial and emotional toll borne by mothers whose adult children have experienced incarceration is often overlooked but can exacerbate financial burdens, especially for Black mothers, according to new research from Rice sociologist Brielle Bryan.
True love: Rice chooses Houston as its valentine
February 11, 2025
Members of the Rice community gathered Feb. 10 at the Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall in an act of love by creating Valentine’s Day cards for the community in partnership with United Way of Greater Houston. Faculty, staff and students came together in droves to fold, decorate and write messages, showing that the people of Houston are the heart of the city this Valentine’s Day.
Rice students build interactive platform to track carbon capture risks in Texas
February 11, 2025
The website functions like a digital museum exhibit, offering story maps, GIS map visualizations and advocacy tools to help communities understand and respond to potential environmental risks.
Phillip Pyle II’s ‘Spectrum Sammy’ brings color, curiosity, conversation to the Moody
February 11, 2025
A visual artist, graphic designer and photographer, Phillip Pyle II's work engages with race and popular culture through the lens of graphic design.
February 11, 2025
Rice Reflects, an initiative of Rice’s Office of the Provost to highlight and create opportunities for conversations across perceived differences, is announcing its next four events available for students, faculty and staff.
‘Smaller and better’: Rice research uncovers performance sweet spot for relaxor nanomaterial
February 11, 2025
A new study led by Rice materials scientist Lane Martin sheds light on how the extreme miniaturization of thin films affects the behavior of relaxor ferroelectrics — materials with noteworthy energy-conversion properties used in sensors, actuators and nanoelectronics.