Kathryn Lavender, associate vice president of the campus safety department, was recently celebrated for her 34 years of service at Rice, shortly befor...
In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitr...
RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio designed to rapidly build companies based on lifesaving medical technologies, today announced th...
Rice’s Department of Chemistry will soon welcome Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede....
Rice University has appointed three distinguished alumni to its board of trustees....
Researchers at Rice and collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Technology, Sydney report the first demonstration of low ...
Rice University is mourning the passing of E. William “Bill” Barnett ’55, an esteemed alumnus, former chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees and a tra...
An international team of scientists led by Rice's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in...
The Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives at Rice welcomed four high school students June 9-13 as inaugural STJA Archival Fellows, o...
Rice hosted the 15th annual Texas Leadership Consortium Summer Youth Program June 9-13. This weeklong camp engaged 100 students from Houston area high...
Rice welcomed five distinguished alumni back to campus June 13 for the university’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration. The event, featuring a panel ...
A powerful work of public art that captured global attention when it first appeared on the facade of the Jerusalem Tolerance Museum is now making hist...
Valentin Radutiu appointed professor of cello at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music
November 1, 2024
Acclaimed cellist Valentin Radutiu began his musical journey at the age of 6 when he started learning the cello from his father, a cellist with the Munich Radio Orchestra who had fled communist Romania.
Rice, Texas Medical Center institutions jointly award seed grants
October 31, 2024
Rice, together with Baylor College of Medicine and the Houston Methodist Academic Institute, has awarded seed grants in support of research on health equity and digital health.
October 31, 2024
David Abraham received the United Nations Association of Houston’s Global Citizen Award.
At Rice, novelist Andrea Bajani finds himself in translation
October 31, 2024
At the bustling crossroads of the Frankfurt Book Fair where novelist and poet Andrea Bajani visited for the prelaunch of his new novel “The Anniversary” (“L’anniversario”), he found himself face-to-face with four people — no, four versions of himself.
Shepherd School alumni, recent students take center stage at elite opera companies
October 31, 2024
Recent graduates and students of Rice’s Shepherd School of Music are making waves in the opera world with several securing coveted positions in some of the nation’s most renowned opera companies.
Rice study: Chinese scientists prioritize government service more than global peers
October 31, 2024
New Rice research finds Chinese scientists feel a greater obligation to serve their government with research efforts than international counterparts.
Rice Vietnamese Student Association welcomes high school students for college leadership workshop
October 30, 2024
Rice’s Vietnamese Student Association hosted its 22nd annual college leadership workshop Oct. 19. The one-day event aims to equip high school students in the Houston area with resources to prepare them for the college application process.
Scientia lectures explore challenges to US democracy
October 30, 2024
Democracy and threats to it were front and center as the Rice Scientia Institute hosted its first event of the fall semester Oct. 24.
October 30, 2024
A new study on iron-tin thin films reshapes scientific understanding of kagome magnets.
‘Sharing concrete examples of leadership challenges’: Rice students learn from leaders at NASA
October 30, 2024
Widely recognized for developing leaders, Rice’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders took its students to a place full of them earlier this month, visiting the NASA Johnson Space Center.