Rice cuts ribbon on Maxfield Hall
Renovation of the historic Mechanical Engineering building, now called Maxfield Hall is complete.
Rice Business professor named fellow of Strategic Management Society
Rice Business professor named fellow of Strategic Management Society
Rice’s latest piece of public art, 'Seif,' lights up campus
Shirazeh Houshiary’s glass helix sculpture draws attention day and night.
Will Rice junior Annie Xu leads one group of incoming Duncan College students in a dance-off while Duncan sophomore Pia Arana and Duncan senior Mei Leebron lead another across the commons. Learning your college’s line dances and rally cheers are as much a part of O-Week as learning your way around campus. (Photos by Jeff Fitlow and Tommy LaVergne)
Successful start to cross-country season
Grace Forbes (pictured) cruised to victory and the Owl men captured the team competition as the Rice Invitational kicked off the cross-country season Friday.
Message from provost on launch of Rice Quantum Initiative
For more than four decades, Rice University scientists and engineers have explored and expanded the boundaries of quantum science and created revolutionary computation, sensing and communication technologies based on the principles of quantum mechanics.
Crop-eating moths will flourish as climate warms
Climate change in this century will allow one of the world's costliest agricultural pests, the diamondback moth, to both thrive year-round and rapidly evolve resistance to pesticides in large parts of the United States, Europe and China where it previously died each winter, according to a study by U.S. and Chinese researchers.
Experts will educate public at Sept. 20 teach-in on Texas abortion law, reproductive rights
Rice hosts Leah Litman, Melaney Linton, Wendy Davis and more in response to Texas abortion ban via Zoom webinar.
Rice Theatre presents 'On the Verge' Oct. 8-10
Eric Overmyer’s magical play follows three Victorian explorers through place and time.
How can Uncle Sam tax cryptocurrency?
Cryptocurrency — an estimated $2 trillion market — has created an estimated $1 trillion tax gap and become too big to avoid regulatory oversight, according to a new blog post from Joyce Beebe, fellow in public finance at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Docking peptides, slow to lock, open possible path to treat Alzheimer’s
Researchers have identified a possible “Achilles’ heel” in the frustration of amyloid beta peptides as they dock to the fibrils that form plaques in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Rice among nation’s top 20 universities in US News rankings
HOUSTON – (Sept. 13, 2021) – Rice is named one of the nation’s top 20 universities in the 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook.
At the end of this semester, students in Afsaneh Aayani-Santos’ course on puppetry design — a brand-new offering in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts — will have created their own fully original and fully articulated puppets.
