Program in collaboration with area colleges empowers next generation of sustainability data scholars
This spring, 75 students from Lone Star College, San Jacinto Community College and Houston Community College met with Rice faculty, staff and graduate students five times over three months to explore how data science can be used to solve real-world sustainability challenges.
From Rice to orbit: Student engineers build safer, low-cost satellite thruster
A team of Rice engineering students has designed and built a safer, low-cost propulsion module for small satellites.
Summer schedule full of art and ideas at the Moody
From exhibitions that trace personal and cultural histories to community events and wellness programming, the Moody’s summer schedule offers more than a break from routine.
Forging a path to a sustainable carbon economy: Inside the vision of Rice’s Carbon Hub
As the world races to address the climate crisis, a coalition headquartered at Rice is taking a radically collaborative approach to one of the toughest challenges: how to decarbonize industry while at the same time boosting manufacturing, improving infrastructure and securing the supply chains for the energy and materials we rely on every day.
Sex-specific climate responses in plants reveal flaws in biodiversity forecasts
A new study highlights the need to refine biodiversity forecasts to account for the sex-specific responses to Earth’s changing climate.
Shining a spotlight on excellence: Association of Rice Alumni honors Laureates Award recipients
A festive crowd of alumni and friends gathered at the Post Oak Hotel in Houston to celebrate Rice’s most dedicated supporters at the Association of Rice Alumni’s annual Laureates Celebration May 8.
Rice researchers engineer personalized treatments for movement impairments
Impaired neuromusculoskeletal function due to conditions such as stroke, osteoarthritis, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, limb amputation, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and cancer is a leading cause of disability.
Rice to offer Bachelor of Science in artificial intelligence
To prepare the next generation of innovators and thought leaders in AI, Rice will offer a Bachelor of Science in AI beginning in the fall of 2025.
Lydia Kavraki named University Professor, the highest faculty distinction at Rice
In a landmark moment for Rice, renowned computer scientist Lydia E. Kavraki has been named a University Professor, the institution’s highest academic rank. She becomes only the 11th person and the third woman in the university’s 112-year history to earn this prestigious title.
Public transit operators keep cities moving, helping people get to work, attend medical appointments and access essential services. But while passenger safety is often in the spotlight, the health and well-being of drivers who spend long hours behind the wheel is frequently overlooked.
Rice’s Mikos elected to the European Academy of Sciences
Rice bioengineer Antonios Mikos has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences, an international body that recognizes excellence in scientific research and technological innovation.
The 2025 Kinder Houston Area Survey, one of the nation’s longest-running studies of an urban area, was released today at the institute’s annual luncheon.
Rice chemist Kürti named 2025 Ross M. Brown Investigator for energy research
Rice chemistry professor László Kürti is a recipient of the 2025 Ross M. Brown Investigator Award.
Recently, a team of scientists and engineers at Rice discovered a phenomenon on a microscopic scale, where tiny magnetic particles driven by rotating fields spontaneously move along the edges of clusters driven by invisible “edge currents” that follow the rules of an unexpected branch of physics.
Rice helps youth explore Earth and space sciences at ‘first-of-its-kind’ event
Nearly 1,000 Earth and planetary explorers from the greater Houston area attended Rice’s K-12 Earth and planetary open house at Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall May 3. The event was held by the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, the Rice Space Institute’s Center for Planetary Origins to Habitability and the Office of STEM Engagement in partnership with Houston Independent School District and NASA.
