In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitr...
Rice’s Department of Chemistry will soon welcome Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede....
Rice University has appointed three distinguished alumni to its board of trustees....
Rice hosted the 15th annual Texas Leadership Consortium Summer Youth Program June 9-13. This weeklong camp engaged 100 students from Houston area high...
Rice welcomed five distinguished alumni back to campus June 13 for the university’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration. The event, featuring a panel ...
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...
The newly released 2025 State of Housing report from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, shows rising home prices, surging insurance premiums ...
A new sustainability initiative is transforming the landscape outside Fondren Library at Rice University — and it’s more than just a garden....
Rice’s Harvey, Ramesh named to National Academy of Sciences
May 2, 2024
Rice University’s Frank Reese Harvey and Ramamoorthy Ramesh are among 120 new U.S. members elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Heartbeat HERoes win Rice’s 2024 Engineering Design Showcase
May 2, 2024
Team Heartbeat HERoes claimed victory at Rice University’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen’s (OEDK) annual Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase last month. The team secured the 2024 Woods-Leazar Innovation Award along with a $5,000 cash prize for its project in medical engineering.
Rice celebrates donors who helped raise more than $200,000 for United Way
May 2, 2024
Rice University President Reginald DesRoches and wife Paula Gilmer DesRoches welcomed guests to Cohen House for amuse-bouches and beverages April 29 as a way to thank donors who made this year’s “Owl in for Houston” campaign to support United Way of Greater Houston a success.
Selman joins Rice Board of Trustees, Kraft reelected
May 2, 2024
Rice University has announced the appointment of Cathryn Selman ’78 and the reelection of Patti Kraft ’87 to its board of trustees. Both distinguished alumnae will serve four-year terms starting July 1.
May 1, 2024
Rice University and the Houston Independent School District (HISD) will collaborate on a space and planetary science pilot program to inspire the next generation of Earth, planetary and space enthusiasts and professionals.
Rice’s Yousif Shamoo elected AAAS fellow
April 29, 2024
Rice University bioscientist Yousif Shamoo has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
Rice cell biology student named Watson Fellow
April 25, 2024
When Trinity Eimer, a senior at Rice University, applied for the prestigious one-year postgraduate Thomas J. Watson Fellowship last September, she knew exactly what project to pitch to the evaluation committee. The cell biology and genetics major began her college career during the COVID-19 pandemic and wanted to spend her next 12 months studying the cross-cultural impact of grief caused by it.
Two Rice faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 25, 2024
Rice professors Pedro Alvarez and Antonios Mikos have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the nation.
Underwater robot pioneers new energy-efficient buoyancy control
April 25, 2024
A remotely operated underwater robot built by a team of Rice University engineering students pioneers a new way to control buoyancy via water-splitting fuel cells.
April 24, 2024
OpenStax at Rice University was awarded $90 million from the National Science Foundation to build and lead SafeInsights, a groundbreaking research and development (R&D) hub for inclusive learning and education research to benefit tens of millions of students and their instructors across all educational levels.