At the busy intersection of academic life and everyday student traffic, a striking white and yellow structure has appeared on Rice’s campus....
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Rice continues to stand out for its academic excellence with several graduate programs earning high marks in the latest edition of U.S. News &...
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Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing celebrated half a century since its official inception with two days of events that gathere...
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Rice University has launched the Institute of Health Resilience and Innovation....
February 26, 2024
The centers are the Rice Center for Nanoscale Imaging Sciences, Synthesis X Center, Center for Environmental Studies, Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, and Center for Coastal Futures and Adaptive Resilience.
Rice professor knighted by French education ministry
February 26, 2024
The call from the French Consulate of Houston was not one Rice University French studies associate professor Julie Fette expected.
Advancing materials science, Rice professors examine chirality in nearly 2D
February 23, 2024
Hanyu Zhu and Boris Yakobson shared their perspective on chirality in 2D materials in Nature Materials.
‘Education is about opening doors’: Rice president, graduate detail impact of Teach For America
February 22, 2024
“Education dramatically changed my life,” Rice University President Reginald DesRoches told a crowd of nearly 300 at Teach For America’s annual Ignite Potential luncheon Feb. 21 at the Briar Club in Houston.
Rice’s Moody Center kicks off Women’s History Month with reception for new campus art installation
February 20, 2024
Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts will kick off Women’s History Month with an opening reception for multidisciplinary artist Martha Tuttle’s site-specific public installation “the bear that longs to touch the ocean.”
Rice keeps rolling with Houston BCycle
February 19, 2024
Rice University is welcoming a familiar service back to campus: Houston BCycle. In addition, by signing up with their rice.edu email addresses, Rice Owls are able to purchase discounted $14 monthly subscriptions.
Rice joins federal consortium on AI safety
February 19, 2024
Rice has joined the nation’s leading artificial intelligence stakeholders to participate in a Department of Commerce initiative to support the development and deployment of trustworthy and safe AI.
Rice architect Juan Jose Castellon’s installation project named finalist for 2024 Forge Prize
February 16, 2024
A sustainable shade system installation created by Rice Architecture’s Juan José Castellón has been selected one of the three finalists for the 2024 Forge Prize by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).
Rice at Rice: Former Sec. of State discusses free speech, global leadership
February 16, 2024
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy Director David Satterfield at an event in the Brockman Hall for Opera’s Morrison Theater Feb. 15.
Widely used machine learning models reproduce dataset bias in Rice study
February 16, 2024
Rice researchers found two machine learning models widely used for immunotherapy research did not correct for bias present in the publicly available data used to train the models, which appears to favor higher-income populations.