Nearly 1,000 people gathered to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the release of its 2025 Kinder Housto...
Rice Athletics announced that it will partner with Independent Sports and Entertainment to identify a potential naming rights partner for Rice Stadium...
The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center at Rice, in collaboration with a team of experts, has developed the Galves...
In a new study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers from Rice and the Planetary Science Institute used complex simulations to show that wide-orb...
A team of Rice engineering students has designed and built a safer, low-cost propulsion module for small satellites....
As the world races to address the climate crisis, a coalition headquartered at Rice is taking a radically collaborative approach to one of the toughes...
A festive crowd of alumni and friends gathered at the Post Oak Hotel in Houston to celebrate Rice’s most dedicated supporters at the Association of Ri...
To prepare the next generation of innovators and thought leaders in AI, Rice will offer a Bachelor of Science in AI beginning in the fall of 2025....
Rice lab develops smallest free-floating bubbles for medical imaging
July 15, 2024
Bioengineering researchers at Rice have developed ultrasmall, stable, gas-filled protein nanostructures that could revolutionize ultrasound imaging and drug delivery for cancers and infectious diseases.
300 Rice athletes earn AAC All-Academic honors
July 12, 2024
A conference-leading 300 Rice student-athletes earned AAC All-Academic honors in Rice Athletics’ debut season in the American Athletic Conference.
Rice professor’s memoir secures spot in NYT’s ‘100 Best Books of the 21st Century’
July 12, 2024
“I found out with everyone else,” said Kiese Laymon, the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English.
Paris bound: Gunnarsdottir to compete for Icelandic Olympic team
July 11, 2024
Rice women’s track and field alumna Erna Gunnarsdottir is headed to Paris, France, to represent Iceland in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Rice engineers’ probe could help advance treatment for spinal cord disease, injury
July 11, 2024
Rice neuroscientists have used a nanosized sensor to record spinal cord neurons in free-moving mice, a feat that could lead to the development of better treatments for spinal cord disease and injury.
Researchers discover ancient chromosomes in 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth
July 11, 2024
Researchers have discovered fossils of ancient chromosomes preserved in the remains of a woolly mammoth that died 52,000 years ago.
Summer in the City of Light: Rice students explore Paris through Global classes
July 10, 2024
Under a Rice Blue sky 5,000 miles from the Houston campus, class was in session during the summer months.
New Rice research projects aim to ‘transform’ future of advanced materials
July 8, 2024
Rice materials scientist Boris Yakobson has won three awards from two federal agencies totaling $4,140,611 over several years to research challenging aspects of advanced materials’ production, performance and dynamics.
Rice research aims to reprogram the genetic code
July 3, 2024
Chemist Han Xiao has been awarded nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award.
Rice Owls cap monthlong festivities at annual Pride Parade
July 2, 2024
A group of more than 50 Rice community members banded together to brave the heat and show their spirit in this year’s Houston Pride Parade June 29.