At the busy intersection of academic life and everyday student traffic, a striking white and yellow structure has appeared on Rice’s campus....
A pair of Rice students are harnessing cutting-edge neuroscience to design an affordable, wearable solution for people living with Parkinson’s disease...
Rice continues to stand out for its academic excellence with several graduate programs earning high marks in the latest edition of U.S. News &...
A team of researchers from the Rice Biotech Launch Pad has developed an implantable “cytokine factory” that safely triggers potent immune responses ag...
As measles cases rise across Texas and the nation, a team of researchers at Rice and the Houston Health Department is leveraging wastewater surveillan...
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...
Rice, BCarbon and Scenic Galveston have launched an innovative project to protect the Kohfeldt Marsh near Texas City from sea level rise through the d...
Rice University has launched the Institute of Health Resilience and Innovation....
Rice cooks up new dining options across campus
February 6, 2024
In a culinary initiative aimed at embracing diversity and catering to evolving student demographics, Rice Housing and Dining has unveiled an additional meal period in residential dining and an innovative International Stations program featuring an array of worldly cuisines.
Rice alumna Caroline Shaw ’04 takes home Grammy gold
February 5, 2024
Rice Shepherd School of Music alumna and Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw ’04 has struck Grammy gold once again.
A conversation with new director of Doerr Institute for New Leaders, Bernard Banks
February 1, 2024
Resilient, driven and collaborative. These three adjectives describe the new director of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders, Bernard “Bernie” Banks, who is looking to lead Rice University into a new era of leadership development.
February 1, 2024
Rice University’s new WaTER Institute, launched today, aims to address complex water related challenges.
Child care cliff looms as expenses increase, availability decreases
January 31, 2024
Millions of child care providers in the U.S. face the prospect of having to either raise tuition, cut workers’ wages and benefits or downsize their operations as funds from the American Rescue Plan Act phase out. Up to 3 million children could experience a disruption in care nationwide — a “child care cliff,” according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice Athletics announces addition of women’s diving team
January 30, 2024
Rice University President Reginald DesRoches and Tommy McClelland, vice president and director of athletics, joined head swimming coach Seth Huston in announcing to the Owl swimmers that Rice will reinstate women’s diving as a varsity program for the 2024-25 season.
Rice celebrates Black History Month with inaugural kickoff event and month of programming
January 30, 2024
Rice University will celebrate Black History Month with a series of events including its first ever kickoff, “Called to Create: African Americans and the Arts,” 5:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall. It will feature singers, dancers, poetry readings and remarks from President Reginald DesRoches and other university and community leaders.
Rice scientists pull off quantum coup
January 29, 2024
Rice scientists have discovered a first-of-its-kind material, a 3D crystalline metal in which quantum correlations and the geometry of the crystal structure combine to frustrate the movement of electrons and lock them in place.
Rice’s Fred Oswald serves as panelist during AI House Davos
January 23, 2024
Fred Oswald, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Psychology at Rice University, was a panelist on "The Impact of U.S. and E.U. Regulation on Business and Society," held Jan. 16 at AI House Davos, a multi-stakeholder platform for responsible AI progress, held during the World Economic Forum 2024 in Davos, Switzerland.
Reducing newborn deaths across Africa enters Phase 2 with $65M
January 23, 2024
The Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360) international alliance launches Phase 2 of its mission to reduce newborn mortality in sub-Saharan Africa with $65 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, The ELMA Foundation, and generous individual contributions.