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....
Sophisticated fluid mechanics model is on a roll
May 12, 2022
Engineers at Rice and Waseda universities produce a video simulation to illustrate the complex aerodynamics around a moving car and its tires.
Crystal study may resolve DNA mystery
May 9, 2022
Rice University bioscientists have uncovered a tiny detail that could help understand how DNA replicates with such astounding accuracy.
Resilient Class of 2022 celebrates degrees earned, lessons learned at Leebron’s final commencement
May 7, 2022
Over two days of festivities, Rice’s 109th commencement celebrated a resilient class of undergraduate and graduate students, most of whom spent the majority of their Rice careers under the specter of COVID-19. The final May 7 ceremony marked the first universitywide commencement in three years.
Rice creates major in sport analytics to offer training in rapidly expanding field
May 5, 2022
Sport analytics, the subject of the hit movie “Moneyball” and the book of the same name , has transformed the way professional and college teams scout and evaluate potential players.
Rice Architecture faculty among New York’s finest
May 3, 2022
Rice Architecture's Wortham Fellows are among recipients of this year's Architectural League of New York Prize for Young Architects.
May 2, 2022
Hailed as “wonderful leaders” and “a positive force for Rice,” President David Leebron and his wife, Y. Ping Sun, were celebrated with a gala at the Ion April 29 honoring nearly two decades of service to a university that, as one attendee put it, “is better for all they have invested in our institution.”
Rice process aims to strip ammonia from wastewater
May 2, 2022
Engineers develop a high-performance nanowire catalyst that pulls ammonia and solid ammonia (fertilizer) from nitrate in wastewater.
Dogtrot destined to help solve housing issues
May 2, 2022
Rice Architecture Construct shows off its Auxiliary ADU, an energy-efficient accessory dwelling unit in Houston’s First Ward.
Rice to hold 109th commencement May 6-7
May 2, 2022
Historic Rice Stadium will host ceremonies for the 109th commencement of Rice University May 6 and 7, highlighted by an address from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Houston birdwatcher turned to listening in the pandemic
April 28, 2022
A Rice geologist’s birding hobby branched out into citizen science during the pandemic.