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300 Rice athletes earn AAC All-Academic honors

A conference-leading 300 Rice student-athletes earned AAC All-Academic honors in Rice Athletics’ debut season in the American Athletic Conference.

Pioneering Rice economist remembered as ‘exceptionally compassionate,’ ‘dedicated teacher’

YingHua He, an associate professor of economics at Rice University, died earlier this month at the age of 44 after fighting a quickly spreading cancer.

Rice professor’s memoir secures spot in NYT’s ‘100 Best Books of the 21st Century’

“I found out with everyone else,” said Kiese Laymon, the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English.

Free summer program at Rice focuses on environmental justice for Houston students

The weeklong experience hosted on Rice’s campus focuses on environmental justice through storytelling via arts and media practices.

Paris bound: Gunnarsdottir to compete for Icelandic Olympic team

Rice women’s track and field alumna Erna Gunnarsdottir is headed to Paris, France, to represent Iceland in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Rice engineers’ probe could help advance treatment for spinal cord disease, injury

Rice neuroscientists have used a nanosized sensor to record spinal cord neurons in free-moving mice, a feat that could lead to the development of better treatments for spinal cord disease and injury.

Researchers discover ancient chromosomes in 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth

Researchers have discovered fossils of ancient chromosomes preserved in the remains of a woolly mammoth that died 52,000 years ago.

Rice’s Omid Veiseh elected to the Controlled Release Society College of Fellows

Rice bioengineer Omid Veiseh has been elected to the Controlled Release Society College of Fellows.

Summer in the City of Light: Rice students explore Paris through Global classes

Under a Rice Blue sky 5,000 miles from the Houston campus, class was in session during the summer months.

Erika Thompson joins Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies as associate director

In a move to bolster its academic and community engagement, Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies has appointed Erika Thompson as its new associate director.

Rice researchers uncover key mechanisms in chromosome structure development

Researchers at Rice are making strides in understanding how chromosome structures change throughout the cell’s life cycle.

New Rice research projects aim to ‘transform’ future of advanced materials

Rice materials scientist Boris Yakobson has won three awards from two federal agencies totaling $4,140,611 over several years to research challenging aspects of advanced materials’ production, performance and dynamics.

Rice’s Graduate Muslim Student Association celebrates Eid al-Adha

Rice’s Graduate Muslim Student Association held a dinner June 28 at Farnsworth Pavilion in a belated celebration of Eid al-Adha, the second of two main Islamic holidays that marks the culmination of the pilgrimage rites at Minā, Saudi Arabia, near Mecca, honoring Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son.

Rice research aims to reprogram the genetic code

Chemist Han Xiao has been awarded nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award.

Do genes-in-pieces code for proteins that fold in pieces?

A new study led by Peter Wolynes offers new insights into the evolution of foldable proteins.