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...
Opera in the Heights double bill offers modern twists from Rice composers
February 17, 2020
A new leader emerges, and his ridiculous behavior only makes his followers more fanatically devoted to him. A climate change activist gives a TED talk warning of the grim fate awaiting the world, but no one believes her.
BioScience's Rosa Uribe wins NSF CAREER Award
February 17, 2020
Rice University neurodevelopmental biologist Rosa Uribe has won a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
Miles joins Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies.
February 17, 2020
HOUSTON – (Feb. 17, 2020) – Steven Miles, an attorney who has spent 35 years focusing on natural gas, electric power and renewable energy, has been named a nonresident fellow in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, the institute announced today.
Good deeds wanted at annual Mitzvah Marathon
February 14, 2020
To do a mitzvah is to do a good deed. And that’s exactly what you’ll be able to do at the Mitzvah Marathon.
Rankings roundup: Rice shines nationally and internationally
February 13, 2020
Rice sits near the top of university rankings recently released by Times Higher Education (THE), the Princeton Review and a number of other outlets that rate higher education institutions.
Rice Media Center celebrates 50 years of groundbreaking creativity with weeks of festivities
February 12, 2020
Rare films, local photography and Rices unique creative spirit to be showcased Feb. 21–March 14.
Algae team rosters could help ID 'super corals'
February 12, 2020
U.S. and Australian researchers have found a potential tool for identifying stress-tolerant "super corals." In experiments that simulated climate change stress, researchers found corals that best survived had symbiotic algae communities with similar features.
A crowd of contenders at spring career and internship expo
February 11, 2020
Hundreds of Rice students headed to the Gibbs Recreation and Wellness Center Feb.
February 11, 2020
Africayé, the annual cultural centerpiece of Black History Month at Rice, packed the Grand Hall in the Rice Memorial Center Feb. 9 with fashion shows, comedy skits, dance performances and much more.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series coming to a close with Gaines, Miller
February 11, 2020
New York-based writer and artist Malik Gaines gave a lecture Feb. 7 at the Rice Media Center to an auditorium of Rice students, faculty and staff who were also treated to a screening of one of Gaines’ recent short films.