For two weeks before the fall semester begins, a group of incoming Rice students traded the uncertainty of starting college alone for a community buil...
Before their first semester at Rice begins, 38 incoming students are already getting a taste of what it means to be a Rice student: tackling demanding...
Rice will lead a $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications....
Rice has announced a major expansion of the Rice Investment, its signature financial aid program, offering free tuition to undergraduate students from...
Trill Burgers, the award-winning smashed burger concept from legendary rapper and entrepreneur Bernard Freeman (Bun B), is coming to Rice. Beginning A...
A team led by Shihong Lin has shown that electrochemical ion pumping can be programmed to desalinate wastewater while selectively recovering dissolved...
Now in its sixth year, the free community day returned July 18....
“This experience made me realize how strongly students respond to that and how engaged the rest of the class becomes listening and learning from it,&q...
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.
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.
Rain garden takes root at Fondren Library through collaborative sustainability project
A new sustainability initiative is transforming the landscape outside Fondren Library at Rice University — and it’s more than just a garden.
Turning carbon dioxide into fuel just got easier, thanks to acid bubbles
A team of researchers at Rice has discovered a surprisingly simple method for vastly improving the stability of electrochemical devices that convert carbon dioxide into useful fuels and chemicals, and it involves nothing more than sending the CO 2 through an acid bubbler.
Rice students develop an award-winning adaptive exercise harness for astronauts to use in space
A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables Workshop and University Challenge. Their design answered a challenge posed by the HumanWorks Lab and Life Science Labs at NASA and Johnson Space Center.
