Two Rice research teams have received Phase I awards through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative harnessing artific...
The Moody Civic Immersion program is a weeklong experience run by Rice’s Center for Civic Leadership that brings incoming students into the city befor...
Rice has joined the U.S. Department of Energy Quantum Science Center....
Rice has announced that the new building under construction for Rice Business will be named Asha and Farid Virani Hall in recognition of a gift from c...
For Mauricio Benitez, every FIFA World Cup is about more than the soccer on the field. It’s about the people....
Rice Business earned five top 10 rankings in The Princeton Review's 2027 business school rankings, highlighted by its first recognition for Best ...
More than 800 K–12 students from across the greater Houston area traded traditional summer pastimes for notebooks, pens and art supplies as participan...
As artificial intelligence accelerates demand for computing power across the U.S., a new study co-authored by Hon Chung Lau, adjunct professor in the ...
Rice’s online graduate programs earned significant gains in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings, with strong upward movement across engineering, computing and business disciplines. The 2026 rankings underscore Rice’s growing national profile for delivering rigorous, high-impact graduate education in a flexible online format.
Researchers at Rice produced graphene by replicating Edison's 1879 light bulb experiments.
As global leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Rice President Reginald DesRoches used a one-on-one interview with Bloomberg Media to make the case for research universities as essential drivers of economic growth, innovation and societal impact.
Rice to host interdisciplinary conference examining global impact of soccer
“The World at Play: The Beautiful Game in 2026” will take place Feb. 6-7 at Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborative.
Rice has launched the Global Brain Economy Initiative.
Rice's SynthX Center has received an up to five-year, $18 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.
Rice bioengineers explore new gene delivery systems with Keck Foundation support
Rice bioengineers Gang Bao and Caleb Bashor are leading a project focused on exploring how biological systems derived from nature can be engineered to deliver long-form genetic instructions for the expression of critical proteins and genome modification to target tissues in living organisms.
Smart clothing coming sooner than you think and Rice engineers are helping build it
Rice professors of mechanical engineering Daniel J. Preston and Vanessa Sanchez are core partners in the New Frontiers in Research Fund project led by the University of Alberta, bringing breakthrough materials, soft-robotic actuation and human-centered design to the team.
Chief Justice Roberts to visit Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy March 17
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. will return to the Rice campus and join the Baker Institute for Public Policy March 17 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Stude Concert Hall for a public conversation reflecting on the state of the American judicial branch and his two decades of service on the nation’s highest court.
Beyond the lens: Moody Center for the Arts exhibition explores intersection of photography and AI
The exhibition features work by seven contemporary artists who draw from the history of photography to explore how emerging technologies are pushing the boundaries of authorship, identity and speculative futures.
