Rice professor’s memoir secures spot in NYT’s ‘100 Best Books of the 21st Century’
“I found out with everyone else,” said Kiese Laymon, the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English.
A new program at Rice is giving students a front-row seat to the stories shaping Houston and putting them behind a microphone to tell them....
Rice researchers have developed extremely stable perovskite crystalline films for long-lasting, high-efficiency solar cells....
Team UroVac won top prize at the Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase....
Brian Gibson, senior associate dean of undergraduates, was named this year’s winner of the Elizabeth Gillis Award for Exemplary Service at Rice Presid...
Greg Marshall was awarded the Y. Ping Sun Award for Community Engagement, one of Rice’s highest honors for service beyond campus....
The Kinder Houston Area Survey, the longest-running study of any major metro area in the nation, was released at the institute’s annual luncheon. ...
Rice professor Pengcheng Dai has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious learned societies i...
At Rice’s Natural Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium, hundreds of posters lined the room with ambitious questions and early answers....
Paris bound: Gunnarsdottir to compete for Icelandic Olympic team
Rice women’s track and field alumna Erna Gunnarsdottir is headed to Paris, France, to represent Iceland in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Rice engineers’ probe could help advance treatment for spinal cord disease, injury
Rice neuroscientists have used a nanosized sensor to record spinal cord neurons in free-moving mice, a feat that could lead to the development of better treatments for spinal cord disease and injury.
Researchers discover ancient chromosomes in 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth
Researchers have discovered fossils of ancient chromosomes preserved in the remains of a woolly mammoth that died 52,000 years ago.
Summer in the City of Light: Rice students explore Paris through Global classes
Under a Rice Blue sky 5,000 miles from the Houston campus, class was in session during the summer months.
New Rice research projects aim to ‘transform’ future of advanced materials
Rice materials scientist Boris Yakobson has won three awards from two federal agencies totaling $4,140,611 over several years to research challenging aspects of advanced materials’ production, performance and dynamics.
Rice research aims to reprogram the genetic code
Chemist Han Xiao has been awarded nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award.
Rice Owls cap monthlong festivities at annual Pride Parade
A group of more than 50 Rice community members banded together to brave the heat and show their spirit in this year’s Houston Pride Parade June 29.
‘The surviving shards’: Donation preserves comic art at Rice
Rice’s Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop has received a significant donation of original comic art, enhancing its already sizable collection.
Rice engages young minds with STEM-focused summer camps
Rice’s Office of STEM Engagement and Rice Athletics have been holding weeklong day camps for third, fourth and fifth grade students. Dubbed STEM-Letics and now in its seventh year, with Space Week in its second year, the day camps are designed to keep students both mentally and physically active during the summer break.