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....
Rice University students Sara Denison and Khoi Nguyen have been named this year’s recipients of the Sallyport Award, presented annually at commencemen...
Rice will congratulate almost 3,000 students who have dutifully earned their college diplomas during commencement weekend May 9-10. For more informati...
Experts from Rice spoke about how AI is reshaping society, industry and human behavior....
Everywhere you turned at the final showcase for Design of Mechatronic Systems, something moved, danced, blinked or spun....
More than 100 people turned out for a screening of a documentary that examines the alarming rise of antisemitism and radicalization on college campuse...
Rice will break ground on the Moody Center Complex for Student Life at 3 p.m. May 8, marking a transformative moment for the university’s commitment t...
Innovators, influencers and inspiration in focus at 20th annual Women in Leadership Conference
February 19, 2020
Business and thought leaders gathered at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business Feb. 14 for the 20th annual Women in Leadership Conference.
Mikos receives Controlled Release Society’s 2020 Founders Award
February 19, 2020
Antonios Mikos, the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has received the 2020 Founders Award of the Controlled Release Society
America Through Foreign Eyes: Popular online course updated with Russian perspective
February 18, 2020
The massively popular online course, launching Feb. 17, now includes a module on Russian relations and perspectives.
A more resilient Houston starts in neighborhoods, Kinder Institute report says
February 18, 2020
HOUSTON – (Feb. 18, 2019) – Building a better and more resilient Houston must start at the neighborhood level, and that can be accomplished by providing communities with leadership training, better information and financial support, according to a new report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Flood buyouts benefit cities and their whitest at-risk neighborhoods
February 17, 2020
The federal flood buyout program disproportionally benefits at-risk homes in the whitest communities of America's largest cities, according to a study from sociologists at Rice University.
Rice EMS, GSA host clothing drive
February 17, 2020
February 17, 2020
Rice kinesiologists found specific health deficits in home-schooled adolescents compared to their peers in public schools.
Creative writing workshops and lectures in Spanish offer unique opportunities for Rice, UH students
February 17, 2020
The Latin American Writer-in-Residency Series brings high-profile Spanish-language authors from across the world to Houston.
Economist to discuss energy and environmental markets in RISE lecture
February 17, 2020
Economics and how it can be used to design energy and environmental markets will be the subject of the Rice Initiative for the Study of Economics (RISE) Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series Feb. 24.
Start the presses: Rice students tour Houston Chronicle
February 17, 2020
Rice students, some of them Thresher journalists, toured the Houston Chronicle through Rice’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders.