Bun B is back on campus: Trill Burgers coming to Rice University
Trill Burgers, the award-winning smashed burger concept from legendary rapper and entrepreneur Bernard Freeman (Bun B), is coming to Rice. Beginning Aug. 17 for new student orientation, Trill Burgers will serve at the Rice Memorial Center throughout the fall and spring semesters, bringing its beef and vegan burgers to the Rice campus.
Rice researchers develop technology to clean salty wastewater while recovering valuable metals
A team led by Shihong Lin has shown that electrochemical ion pumping can be programmed to desalinate wastewater while selectively recovering dissolved metals such as copper.
Shedding light on new type of magnetism in quantum materials
Rice's Ming Yi recently showed that the quantum material ruthenium dioxide potentially displays this new altermagnetism in its ultrathin film form in which the material is prepared as a very thin slice only a few atomic layers thick.
Humans to Mars and Moon Summit held at Rice
The 2026 Humans to Mars and the Moon Summit (H2M2), hosted by the nonprofit Explore Mars, was recently held at Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborative.
Center for Community Learning and Engagement announces fall 2026 courses
The Center for Community Learning and Engagement at Rice's Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies is welcoming the fall season with a new lineup of noncredit courses and workshops spanning the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences.
Rice research offers new perspective on how Asian Americans develop political identities
Rice associate professor of political science sought to better understand how members of one of America’s fastest-growing racial and immigrant populations come to learn about the American political system and develop their political identities.
Moody Center for the Arts’ front door swings wide for Summer Jam
Now in its sixth year, the free community day returned July 18.
Rice's first professor at Venice International University returns with a fresh eye for the classroom
“This experience made me realize how strongly students respond to that and how engaged the rest of the class becomes listening and learning from it," said anthropology professor Nia Georges.
To build lifelong AI, teach it to forget
A new monograph published in Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, Yueyang Liu, assistant professor of operations management at Rice Business, and co-authors at Stanford University argue that forgetting is not simply a bug for AI. In real-world settings, these systems face hard constraints on memory and computing power. They cannot, and should not, try to remember everything.
Rice students help NASA imagine future of lunar exploration through SUITS challenge
Rice’s OWL SUITS team, led by members of the Rice Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Club, was selected for NASA SUITS, a national software design challenge that invites college students to develop interface solutions for future human spaceflight.
Rice materials science triumphs with pair of Telly Awards
Rice is a double winner in the 47th annual Telly Awards, which honor excellence in video and television. The university won a silver Telly in the Education and Discovery category for a social media series titled “Discovering Materials Science and Engineering: Engineering Solutions for a Changing World,” which followed freshmen as they were introduced to how materials shape the world in a materials science and nanoengineering course of the same name. Additionally, Rice won a bronze Telly in the Educational Institution category for a nonbroadcast campaign titled “RAMI Undergraduate Research Fellows at Rice University,” which showcases cutting-edge undergraduate research.
Cow visit brings food science lessons to life for Rice summer campers
Nearly 30 fourth and fifth grade students got a firsthand look at where milk comes from July 16 when a dairy cow named Luna visited Rice University as part of the Center for STEM Engagement’s new C.H.E.F. Lab (Creating Hands-on Experiments in Food Science).
Accelerating discovery: Rice receives nearly $20M NSF award for AI-powered materials laboratory
Rice has received a $19.9 million NSF award to use AI, robotics and cloud-based labs to accelerate electronic and quantum materials manufacturing.
‘Experience like no other’: Rice professor serves as program chair for Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Rice professor Pernilla Wittung Stafshede recently served as a co-organizer of the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, where she co-represented the field of chemistry.
New method opens cheaper pathways to increased drug stability
Hans Renata’s team recently developed a method that significantly reduces the cost of adding thiophosphate to chemical structures, opening up new pathways for drug design.
