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Rice University’s OpenStax partners with Microsoft for AI-enhanced learning

OpenStax, a provider of affordable instructional technologies and the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources, has partnered with Microsoft to integrate its trusted content into Microsoft’s latest learning innovation, Microsoft Learning Zone. Available on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft Learning Zone aims to provide educators and students with responsible AI technology and peer-reviewed educational content to support learning.

Music, memory and the power of emotion: Rice study reveals how music influences what we remember

Rice graduate student and adjunct assistant professor explores how music can help shape new memories.

Rice and Baylor College of Medicine host AI and health equity symposium

The “Synergizing AI, Digital Health and the Built Environment" symposium addressed the ways AI and digital health tools can enhance the built environment to help reduce health disparities. Community Health Symposium: AI, Digital Health and the Built Environment

‘No one had done this before’: Art, science and the surprising versatility of boron nitride nanotubes

In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) — touted for their strength, thermal stability and insulating properties — can be coaxed into forming ordered liquid crystalline phases in water.

Rice recruits biophysicist to boost cancer research efforts

Rice’s Department of Chemistry will soon welcome Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede.

Rice welcomes 3 new members to board of trustees

Rice University has appointed three distinguished alumni to its board of trustees.

‘A transformational initiative’: Rice hosts college preparation camp for Houston youth

Rice hosted the 15th annual Texas Leadership Consortium Summer Youth Program June 9-13. This weeklong camp engaged 100 students from Houston area high schools and middle schools to provide life lessons and college readiness activities.

Owls return for Juneteenth: Alumni reflect on their experiences as student leaders during the era of Black Lives Matter

Rice welcomed five distinguished alumni back to campus June 13 for the university’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration. The event, featuring a panel discussion titled “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Leading in the Time of Black Lives Matter,” offered reflections and insights from former student leaders who navigated pivotal moments of leadership during the movement.

Rice, Houston shine on global stage at VivaTech 2025

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 across the international tech ecosystem.

2025 Kinder State of Housing report finds rising vulnerability and shrinking affordability

The newly released 2025 State of Housing report from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, shows rising home prices, surging insurance premiums and growing climate risks are reshaping how and where residents can afford to live.