Rice launches a first-of-its-kind collaboration: the Texas Linguistics Consortium....
Dominic Boyer, professor of anthropology at Rice awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation....
Intero Biosystems — a life science company that has developed the first cell-derived human “minigut” replicating cell types, spatial structure and fun...
Rice and ExxonMobil have entered into a master research agreement to collaborate on research initiatives focused on sustainable energy solutions. ...
Oz Ocampo, a former international scout with the Houston Astros, is shaping the next generation of sports industry professionals....
An international team of physicists, including Rice’s Paul Padley, Frank Geurts, Karl Ecklund, Wei Li and Darin Acosta, was awarded the 2025 Breakthro...
At the busy intersection of academic life and everyday student traffic, a striking white and yellow structure has appeared on Rice’s campus....
A pair of Rice students are harnessing cutting-edge neuroscience to design an affordable, wearable solution for people living with Parkinson’s disease...
Sleepy Cyborg, Rice’s student art gallery, goes virtually virtual
September 10, 2020
What was Matchbox Gallery has rebranded in a sign of the times.
Polling location at Rice Stadium to be staffed entirely by students
September 10, 2020
Hanszen junior Mason Reece confirmed as Rice precinct’s first student election judge in years.
Rice goes GRE-optional for grad programs, will grant fee waivers to graduates of Texas schools
September 8, 2020
Rice is eliminating the Graduate Record Examinations standardized test requirement for its 2021 graduate programs.
Student demand for environmental studies surges
September 8, 2020
Rice’s Center for Environmental Studies is responding with new and expanded courses, fall speaker series.
Largest gift in Rice history establishes The Welch Institute
September 2, 2020
The Robert A. Welch Foundation announces the largest single gift in the history of Rice University, $100 million, to establish The Welch Institute for world-leading advanced materials research.
Rice computer science lab collaborates on design of novel SARS-CoV-2 test
August 28, 2020
Rice computer scientists are collaborating with molecular diagnostics company Great Basin Scientific to streamline the development of COVID-19 testing.
Harvey's overall impact dwarfs subsequent storms, Texas Flood Registry finds
August 26, 2020
Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Houston area three years ago, but as another major storm threatens the upper Texas coast, a new report from the Texas Flood Registry shows the 2017 disaster's lasting impact is felt more strongly than that of subsequent storms, including Tropical Storm Imelda.
New semester brings unique O-Week experience
August 24, 2020
Rice reimagined O-Week to include remote students in the annual orientation week and its traditions.
Remote control: CTE’s Adaptive Course Design Institute prepares professors for teaching online
August 23, 2020
Rice professors set it all aside this summer to learn all about the best new tools for teaching online.
'Is This the End?' Big Questions courses tackle truth, ethics and the apocalypse
August 21, 2020
Two new Humanities classes will explore questions for which there is no 'right' answer.