f identical versions of 20 people lived out their lives in dozens of different worlds, would the same people be popular in each world?
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...
Hexagonal boron nitride's remarkable toughness unmasked
It's official: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the iron man of 2D materials, so resistant to cracking that it defies a century-old theoretical description engineers still use to measure toughness.
Biologists construct a ‘periodic table’ for cell nuclei
A team of biologists studying the tree of life has unveiled a new classification system for cell nuclei, and discovered a method for transmuting one type of cell nucleus into another.
Leebron to step down from Rice presidency in June 2022
HOUSTON – (May 26, 2021) – Rice University President David Leebron has announced he plans to leave his position at the end of the next academic year after nearly two decades at the helm of one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning.
World’s largest database on history of slave trade now housed at Rice
SlaveVoyages.org is the result of years of research, reengineered for the future by Rice and a newly formed consortium.
Mexico’s democracy examined in Baker Institute webinar
Ahead of upcoming midterm elections in Mexico, a half-day event from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy will examine the future of democracy in the country.
Rice builds FIRST flood-alert system for City of Houston
SSPEED Center's early-warning system covers hospitals, nursing homes, other critical facilities on Brays, Sims, Hunting and White Oak bayous.
Body chemistry can predict severity of depression after death of spouse
A new study from researchers at Rice University has found that bodily inflammation after the death of a spouse can predict future depression.
There’s never been a better time to pursue an English degree at Rice
Creative writing program offers unique opportunity to learn from America’s foremost writers and scholars.
Engineered organism could diagnose Crohn's disease flareups
Rice University researchers have engineered a bacterium capable of diagnosing a human disease, a milestone in the field of synthetic biology.