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.
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...
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.