Courtney Hall, Owl football star recently named as trustee, dies at 52
Courtney Hall, a renowned Rice athlete whose career in football took him to the Super Bowl and career in finance took him to Wall Street, has died unexpectedly at the age of 52.
Researchers at NASA and Rice have launched the the world’s first open-source dynamic simulation environment to develop robots used in space vehicles a...
Taylor Schultz, who graduated this spring with a degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering and served as president of Duncan College, was select...
Published in the journal Information Systems Research and co-authored by Jing Zhou, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management at Rice Business, the...
An estimated 141,000 Houston-area residents experienced temporary homelessness in the past year, according to a new survey by Rice’s Kinder Institute ...
Rice and the Max Planck Society officially launched the Quantum Materials - Rice and Max Planck Partnership (Q-RaMP) June 19, aimed at supporting the ...
Researchers from Rice and North Carolina State University have created a nontoxic, stretchable battery that operates by extracting moisture from the a...
Rice's Office of Public Affairs earned four honors at the 41st Public Relations Society of America Houston Excalibur Awards, including Communicat...
The National Academy of Construction has elected Rice President Reginald DesRoches as one of 45 new members in its Class of 2026. ...
Annual student club awards recognize efforts in diversity, creativity and inclusion
The third annual Club Awards recognized those who helped keep the university community engaged during a difficult school year.
Rice names architect for new engineering and science building
With the imminent demolition of Rice University’s Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory, the space will soon be cleared for a new engineering and science building, according to Rice administrators. International architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been selected as lead architect for the new building. Houston’s Scientia Architects will consult on laboratory design.
Anthony Pinn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Rice Professor Anthony Pinn has been elected to the nation’s foremost society of scholars, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Established by America’s founding fathers in 1780, the academy’s members have included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
‘An unprecedented year’: Record number of Rice grad students awarded NSF fellowships
Two dozen current graduate students are among 44 affiliated with Rice to win Graduate Research Fellowships and three years of financial support.
Economics lecturer James DeNicco wins George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching
If you ask James "Jimmy" DeNicco for his definition of great teaching, he can’t give you a simple answer.
Leebron lauds dedication amid pandemic, eyes return to 'relatively normal' at town hall
After a year of extraordinary challenges imposed by COVID-19, President David Leebron envisioned a campus returning to normal and outlined a post-pandemic future for Rice during the university’s annual town hall meeting.
Clements and Faubion convene conference of international Foucault ‘superstars’
Scholars’ twice-weekly talks this summer will consider newly published work by the French philosopher Micheal Foucault
Rev. William Lawson visits namesake grove at Rice for first time
"I hope that generations of students will look him up and see what he did to deserve such a hallowed spot on the campus here."
Special collections archivist Focke wins Elizabeth Gillis Award
Amanda Focke, head of special collections for the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library, was recognized for her exemplary service.