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.
Rice Athletics celebrated longtime supporters and champions of its student-athletes Sept. 30 at the 21st An Evening for Rice’s Honour gala at River Oa...
Rice parents, siblings, grandparents and other family members joined their Owls for meals, performances, conversations, campus activities and athletic...
Houston’s population boom masks other trends that have been unfolding for more than two decades: Women here are having fewer children and having them ...
Rice and First Community Credit Union have signed a 20-year football stadium naming rights and campus collaboration agreement as announced Thursday by...
Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing has named Karen Lozano as the director of the Tapia Center for Empowerment through STEM Edu...
Rice continues its upward momentum in global higher education, rising two spots to No. 101 worldwide in the 2027 Times Higher Education World Universi...
Researchers at Rice, with the support of the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, have developed an implantable “living pharmacy” using engineered protein produce...
New research explores how perceptions of immunity can shape vaccine decisions and how personalized feedback may help people better understand their pr...
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.
Rice360’s Global Health Fellowship program is finding ways to engineer hope
When Mary Seifu Tirfie graduated with a degree in biomedical engineering from Addis Ababa University in 2023, she wasn’t just earning a diploma — she was stepping into a global mission.
‘Here to work with the world’: Rice shines at inaugural SXSW London
Rice took center stage at the inaugural South by Southwest London, bringing Texas-sized ambition, pathbreaking innovation and global vision to one of the world’s premier gatherings of creative and intellectual leaders.
Engineered with heart: Student-designed device could streamline imaging for cardiac procedures
A team of six Rice students developed a device that holds and stabilizes an intracardiac echocardiography catheter during heart procedures, allowing the primary physician to maintain precise control of the catheter without needing a second set of hands.
Xie recognized for innovation in quantum phenomena
Rice's Yonglong Xie has been recognized for his innovation in quantum phenomena.
Rice students launch oral history archive to preserve Indigenous Texas stories
The project titled “Living Memory: An Oral History Project to Strengthen Native Sovereignty in Texas” began in fall 2024 as part of the Center for Civic Leadership-funded Houston Action Research Teams program.
Language, legacy and la dolce vita: Shepherd School students explore the roots of opera in Italy
The program is designed to deepen students’ fluency in a language essential to the operatic tradition.
2025 Kinder Houston Area Survey finds Houstonians proud, united and looking ahead
Nearly 1,000 people gathered to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the release of its 2025 Kinder Houston Area Survey.