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....
Bumps could smooth quantum investigations
June 6, 2022
Rice University materials theorists model a contoured surface overlaid with 2D materials and find it possible to control their electronic and magnetic properties. The discovery could simplify research into many-body effects, including quantum systems.
Zoghbi shares prestigious 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
June 1, 2022
Rice trustee Dr. Huda Zoghbi is a co-recipient of the prestigious 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Rice bids fond farewell to finance wizard Kathy Collins
May 30, 2022
One of the top administrators at Rice University never taught a class here, but grateful colleagues who joined together last week for a celebration of her long and distinguished career hailed her as nothing less than one of the great teachers and leaders on campus.
Cars could get a ‘flashy’ upgrade
May 26, 2022
Rice University chemists, working with the Ford Motor Company, processes waste plastic from end-of-life trucks into graphene for composite materials in new vehicles.
Rice to welcome four new trustees
May 23, 2022
Rice University will begin the next academic year with four new Board of Trustee members. Asuka Nakahara, Jeremy Thigpen, Claudia Gee Vassar and Lori Whitten will serve four-year terms beginning July 1.
Getting ourselves back to the garden
May 19, 2022
A prairie garden at Rice University demonstrates the benefits of replacing manicured lawns with resilient plants and grasses that need little maintenance and help protect the environment.
DAP array casts a wide net to fix mutations
May 19, 2022
Rice engineers introduce DAP, a streamlined CRISPR-based technology that can perform many genome edits at once to address polygenic diseases caused by more than one glitch.
Rice chemists skew the odds to prevent cancer
May 17, 2022
A theoretical framework by Rice University scientists shows how to increase the odds of identifying cancer-causing mutations before tumors take hold. They demonstrate that only a few energetically favorable pathways are likely to lead to cancer.
Kinder Houston Area Survey: As pandemic wanes, economy and crime become top concerns
May 17, 2022
As Houston emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy and crime top the list of residents’ concerns in the 2022 Kinder Houston Area Survey. Stress, anxiety, loneliness and isolation persist as the pandemic wanes, the survey shows, and Houstonians want the government to spend more money addressing economic inequalities and improving public schools.
Eavesdroppers can hack 6G frequency with DIY metasurface
May 16, 2022
Rice engineers discovered 6G wireless “pencil beams” are vulnerable to eavesdroppers armed with DIY metasurfaces.