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....
City, county and port support Galveston Bay Park study
June 22, 2022
Houston, Harris County, Port Houston and entrepreneur Joe Swinbank have chipped in for an engineering study of Galveston Bay Park, a chain of man-made islands that Rice University experts have proposed building as both a hurricane barrier and a 10,000-acre public park.
Rice, TSU, Prairie View unite for Juneteenth event
June 17, 2022
Rice hosted a celebration of Juneteenth with a series of panels exploring ideas and questions relevant to the holiday.
Agriculture emissions pose risks to health and climate
June 17, 2022
Rice researchers find the economic cost of emissions from agriculture and their risks to populations through air pollution and climate change.
Rice lab’s quantum simulator delivers new insight
June 16, 2022
A Rice University quantum simulator is giving physicists a clear look at spin-charge separation, a bizarre phenomenon in which two parts of indivisible particles called electrons travel at different speeds in extremely cold 1D wires. The research is published this week in Science and has implications for quantum computing and electronics with atom-scale wires.
Dittmar named new Rice University provost
June 16, 2022
Amy Dittmar, a distinguished scholar with an extensive background in economics, finance and university administration, has been named the new provost of Rice University.
Rice to begin play in American Athletic Conference next year
June 15, 2022
Rice will officially join the American Athletic Conference for competition in the 2023-24 academic year, the university and league has announced.
Humans in the loop help robots find their way
June 15, 2022
Rice computer scientists develop a method that allows humans to help complex robots build efficient solutions to “see” their environments and carry out tasks.
Forbes’ runner-up finish paces Owls at track and field championships
June 10, 2022
Grace Forbes’ second-place finish in the 10,000 meters led a contingent of five Rice athletes at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships this week in Eugene, Oregon.
Doctoral alumna wins prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship
June 9, 2022
Doctoral graduate Natsumi Komatsu has been awarded a prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship
Rice physicist wins DOE early career award
June 7, 2022
Physicist Guido Pagano wins a prestigious Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy.