The university joined the Greater Houston Partnership in hosting the first city booth at the global event, which drew more than 180,000 attendees from...
The newly released 2025 State of Housing report from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, shows rising home prices, surging insurance premiums ...
A new sustainability initiative is transforming the landscape outside Fondren Library at Rice University — and it’s more than just a garden....
A team of researchers at Rice has discovered a surprisingly simple method for vastly improving the stability of electrochemical devices that convert c...
A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wear...
When Mary Seifu Tirfie graduated with a degree in biomedical engineering from Addis Ababa University in 2023, she wasn’t just earning a diploma — she ...
Rice took center stage at the inaugural South by Southwest London, bringing Texas-sized ambition, pathbreaking innovation and global vision to one of ...
A team of six Rice students developed a device that holds and stabilizes an intracardiac echocardiography catheter during heart procedures, allowing ...
Xie recognized for innovation in quantum phenomena
June 3, 2025
Rice's Yonglong Xie has been recognized for his innovation in quantum phenomena.
Rice students launch oral history archive to preserve Indigenous Texas stories
June 3, 2025
The project titled “Living Memory: An Oral History Project to Strengthen Native Sovereignty in Texas” began in fall 2024 as part of the Center for Civic Leadership-funded Houston Action Research Teams program.
Language, legacy and la dolce vita: Shepherd School students explore the roots of opera in Italy
May 30, 2025
The program is designed to deepen students’ fluency in a language essential to the operatic tradition.
2025 Kinder Houston Area Survey finds Houstonians proud, united and looking ahead
May 29, 2025
Nearly 1,000 people gathered to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the release of its 2025 Kinder Houston Area Survey.
Rice to partner with ISE on naming rights for Rice Stadium
May 28, 2025
Rice Athletics announced that it will partner with Independent Sports and Entertainment to identify a potential naming rights partner for Rice Stadium, the iconic home of Rice Football and countless other major sporting and entertainment events over the past eight decades.
May 27, 2025
The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center at Rice, in collaboration with a team of experts, has developed the Galveston Bay Park Plan, an in-bay barrier and park system designed to provide enhanced storm surge protection and navigation and environmental benefits for the highly vulnerable west side of Galveston Bay.
May 27, 2025
In a new study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers from Rice and the Planetary Science Institute used complex simulations to show that wide-orbit planets are not anomalies but rather natural by-products of a chaotic early phase in planetary system development.
Rice method refines ultrapure diamond film fabrication for quantum and electronic applications
May 23, 2025
Rice researchers have developed a simpler and more effective technique to make ultrapure diamond films for quantum and electronic applications.
From Rice to orbit: Student engineers build safer, low-cost satellite thruster
May 21, 2025
A team of Rice engineering students has designed and built a safer, low-cost propulsion module for small satellites.
Forging a path to a sustainable carbon economy: Inside the vision of Rice’s Carbon Hub
May 21, 2025
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.