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Breadboard wins Engineering Design Showcase

Breadboard’s hands-free electric longboard won the top prize in the George R. Brown Engineering Design Showcase.

‘It feels like walking into Versailles’: Rice’s new opera hall officially opens with Mozart's legendary ‘Don Giovanni’

After more than a year of anticipation, Rice University’s new Brockman Hall for Opera welcomed sold-out audiences April 14 and 16 for its first performances in person.

Lithium’s narrow paths limit batteries

Study suggests that lithium batteries would benefit from more porous electrodes with better-aligned particles that don’t limit lithium distribution.

Rice lab improves recipe for valuable chemical

Rice University theorists show why salt gives a significant speed boost to valuable 2D molybdenum disulfide, an effect they say may work for other 2D materials as well.

Inspired students make intubation more intuitive

Rice University engineering students develop a simplified, wireless video laryngoscope to help clinicians intubate patients before procedures or in an emergency.

Brockman Hall for Opera opens its doors for community open house

Rice’s Shepherd School of Music opened the doors to the new Brockman Hall for Opera April 9, welcoming more than 2,000 guests to a community open house.

Open enrollment for benefit plans begins April 15

Taxes might be top of mind these days, but it is also time for Rice employees to start thinking about their health, welfare and retirement benefits for the upcoming fiscal year.

Rice University English professor Tomás Morín wins prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Rice University professor Tomás Morín has won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor bestowed annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to a slate of the world’s top scholars, artists, writers and scientists.

Treated plastic waste good at grabbing carbon dioxide

Rice University chemists treat waste plastic to absorb carbon dioxide from flue gas streams more efficiently than current processes.

The story of Brockman Hall for Opera's one-of-a-kind space

When you walk into Rice University's new Brockman Hall for Opera, it's easy to be awestruck by its beauty and grandeur.