Rice scientists engineer new tool to improve detection of HIV and other viruses
Rice researchers have developed an improved version of Cas13a that could make it easier to detect HIV and other RNA viruses in blood and environmental samples.
As early voting begins, new Rice research sheds light on why some members of one of Houston’s fastest-growing populations say they remain underreprese...
Nameless Sound musicians performed an original score on Nanibah Chacon’s interactive installation following Danza Azteca Macuilxochitl's activati...
Rice’s James Tour recently published an improved method to recover antimony from this electronic waste stream. ...
Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with career awards, showcasin...
The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act....
Rice’s Yonglong Xie is one of 20 early-career scientists, mathematicians and engineers to receive a 2026 Packard Fellowship. ...
Rice juniors selected for the 2026-28 Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship for Public Service....
As artificial intelligence drives electricity demand, geopolitical tensions reshape energy markets and countries reassess supply chains, the energy se...
Rice launches transformational AI initiative with faculty hiring, new programs and facilities
Rice has launched a transformational universitywide AI initiative to recruit 75 faculty members working across disciplines, invest in a new, state-of-the-art facility that advances research and industry collaboration, and expand AI-related courses and degrees, accelerating the institution’s emergence as a global leader in advanced computing and responsible AI.
Rice LIVED puts university culture, values into action
There is only one Rice, and as the university enters a new era of growth and ambition, Rice is taking a deliberate look at something that has long helped make the institution distinctive: its culture.
Rice Athletics celebrates longtime supporters at An Evening for Rice’s Honour
Rice Athletics celebrated longtime supporters and champions of its student-athletes Sept. 30 at the 21st An Evening for Rice’s Honour gala at River Oaks Country Club.
‘Celebration of your students’: Families Weekend showcases campus life, community
Rice parents, siblings, grandparents and other family members joined their Owls for meals, performances, conversations, campus activities and athletics as part of the annual Families Weekend festivities. For families, it offered a glimpse into the communities, relationships and experiences their loved ones have built since arriving on campus.
Houston is booming, even as fertility rates fall
Houston’s population boom masks other trends that have been unfolding for more than two decades: Women here are having fewer children and having them later.
Rice, First Community Credit Union announce 20-year stadium naming rights deal
Rice and First Community Credit Union have signed a 20-year football stadium naming rights and campus collaboration agreement as announced Thursday by Rice interim athletic director Eric George.
Rice Engineering and Computing names Lozano as director of Tapia Center
Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing has named Karen Lozano as the director of the Tapia Center for Empowerment through STEM Education.
Rice continues rise in global university rankings
Rice continues its upward momentum in global higher education, rising two spots to No. 101 worldwide in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings released today.
Rice Biotech Launch Pad invents ‘living pharmacy’ designed to produce therapeutics inside the body
Researchers at Rice, with the support of the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, have developed an implantable “living pharmacy” using engineered protein producers that could one day deliver these medicines continuously for months or years from a single procedure.