Rice, Baylor developing implants to heal heart attack injuries
Rice and Baylor College of Medicine are creating tiny implants that can heal damage from heart attacks.
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 Oa...
Rice parents, siblings, grandparents and other family members joined their Owls for meals, performances, conversations, campus activities and athletic...
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 ...
Rice and First Community Credit Union have signed a 20-year football stadium naming rights and campus collaboration agreement as announced Thursday by...
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 Edu...
Rice continues its upward momentum in global higher education, rising two spots to No. 101 worldwide in the 2027 Times Higher Education World Universi...
Researchers at Rice, with the support of the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, have developed an implantable “living pharmacy” using engineered protein produce...
New research explores how perceptions of immunity can shape vaccine decisions and how personalized feedback may help people better understand their pr...
Halas, Nordlander win prestigious Eni Energy Transition Award
Rice’s Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander have won the prestigious 2022 Eni Energy Transition Award.
Team led by Rice’s Saltz wins grant to examine environment’s impact on fruit flies
Rice University researcher Julia Saltz and two co-principal investigators have received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate and model the underlying factors of genetic variation in trait development in fruit flies across environments and over generations.
CDC names Houston Health Department, Rice a wastewater epidemiology Center of Excellence
A system to track COVID-19 through Houston’s wastewater became the basis of an epidemiology center that has now earned special designation from the U.S. government and $1 million in its first year of federal funding.
Rice lab’s ‘drug factory’ implants cleared for human trials
Federal regulators have approved the first human clinical trial of cancer-killing “drug factory” implants created by Rice bioengineers.
Cherukuri named Rice University’s first vice president for innovation
Paul Cherukuri, the executive director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, has been named Rice University’s first vice president for innovation.
Most but not all Texas coaches say they’ll plan for climate change
A survey of Texas college and high school coaches, trainers and athletic directors suggests many are not taking climate change into account as they plan their programs’ futures.
VegSense makes sense for forest studies
Rice ecologists have created open-source software to rapidly gather field data with Microsoft’s mixed reality headset.
Ramesh named Rice University’s vice president for research
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist with more than 25 years in academia, industry, national labs and government service, has been named Rice University’s vice president for research.
Rice engineers get a grip with ‘necrobotic’ spiders
Rice University engineers find they can manipulate the legs of dead spiders to serve as grippers.