In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitr...
Rice’s Department of Chemistry will soon welcome Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede....
Rice University has appointed three distinguished alumni to its board of trustees....
Rice hosted the 15th annual Texas Leadership Consortium Summer Youth Program June 9-13. This weeklong camp engaged 100 students from Houston area high...
Rice welcomed five distinguished alumni back to campus June 13 for the university’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration. The event, featuring a panel ...
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....
April 6, 2020
As part of a coordinated effort to combat COVID-19, Rice University has established a research accelerator fund to support projects intended to help end the pandemic and prepare for similar outbreaks in the future.
Rice researchers create interactive map of COVID-19 cases in Texas
April 6, 2020
A team of researchers in the Center for Research Computing’s Spatial Studies Lab at Rice University has created an interactive map showing all cases of COVID-19 across Texas utilizing public health data. The map is now online at coronavirusintexas.org.
March 30, 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis plays out, Rice University faculty have been proactively making the best of a difficult situation for their students.
Rice's spring commencement postponed
March 30, 2020
Rice's spring commencement, originally scheduled for May 15-16, has been postponed because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the university announced Monday.
Ventilator costing less than $300 developed by Rice University and Metric Technologies
March 27, 2020
Rice staff, students and partners have developed an automated bag valve mask ventilator unit that can be built for less than $300 worth of parts and helps critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Coral tells own tale about El Niño’s past
March 26, 2020
Researchers from Rice and Georgia Tech studied ancient Pacific corals to improve computer model predictions of El Niño events.
Sociology students journaling campus life during coronavirus for Rice archives
March 24, 2020
These undergrads are partnering with the Woodson Research Center to document an unprecedented campus closure.
Coronavirus and the classroom: How Rice is tackling the move to remote learning
March 23, 2020
Rice students, faculty and staff are finishing the spring semester in unprecedented circumstances, responding to the threat of COVID-19 by hunkering down and delivering classes online.
Bioengineers call for scale-up of COVID-19 testing to academic labs
March 19, 2020
Rice bioengineers are calling on federal officials to draft their lab and thousands like it to rapidly scale up coronavirus testing.