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Kenneth Tam

Rice’s Tam named Guggenheim Fellow

Kenneth Tam, an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans video, sculpture, installation, performance and photography, is an assistant professor of ar...

Karma Elbadawy, a Rice University senior and 2026 Thomas J. Watson Fellow, will explore how refugees and stateless individuals define a sense of home across borders.

Rice senior named Watson Fellow, will explore what ‘home’ means across borders

Karma Elbadawy, a graduating senior at Rice, has been named a 2026 Thomas J. Watson Fellow....

NASA's Orion spacecraft landing in the ocean: three striped parachutes landing on blue water

Rice research helps power safe return of astronauts in historic Orion splashdown

When NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean April 10, a critical piece of the spacecraft’s safe return traced back to research at Ric...

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Material-tech startup BRCĒ from Michigan State takes home grand prize at Rice Business Plan Competition

BRCĒ is a material-tech startup replacing failure-prone textiles with polymer composites engineered for strength, fire resistance and intrinsic stabil...

rendering of the brain

Watch: Provost Dittmar, Project Metis leaders outline vision for brain health, brain economy

Four months after its launch, Project Metis is building momentum — with a new website and video offering a deeper look at the initiative’s vision to p...

Jim Blackburn, a man in a blue shirt, stands on rocks and looks through binoculars on the Texas coastline

Rice among top research institutions advancing largest coastal protection effort in US history

Rice will contribute its expertise to the newly established Coastal Texas Research Council, a scientific and technical hub supporting the historic Coa...

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Rice alumna plays key role in NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission

As NASA’s Artemis II mission marks a historic return to crewed lunar flight, a Rice alumna is helping monitor the spacecraft in real time from the gro...

As enrollment shifts across the Houston region, some classrooms are seeing fewer students.

New Rice study explains shifting school enrollment across Houston region

A new report from the Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) at Rice offers a clearer answer to a question many district leaders and families a...