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....
US News grad school rankings give high marks to Rice programs
March 30, 2022
A total of 19 graduate programs at Rice University rank among the nation's top 25 in their categories in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
Rice's spectacular new opera hall to open with public events including community day, 'Don Giovanni'
March 28, 2022
As performance halls around the world open their doors again in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rice University's Shepherd School of Music will officially open the new Brockman Hall for Opera with a series of public events scheduled for next month.
Adrienne Correa wins CAREER Award
March 28, 2022
Rice marine biologist Adrienne Correa has won a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
Fall Big Questions courses to cover the nature of facts, what makes bodies normal or abnormal
March 24, 2022
Each semester’s slate of Big Questions courses offered by the School of Humanities starts students’ minds churning over thought-provoking topics. So this fall’s offerings are no surprise: one promises to spur Rice scholars to think critically about what makes bodies normal as opposed to abnormal, while the other course will push students to examine just what, exactly, is a fact.
A ‘quasi-juvenile delinquent’ at Rice rises to the top -- again
March 23, 2022
Rice University alumnus Dennis Sullivan wins the Abel Prize in Mathematics.
Wind, solar could replace coal power in Texas
March 21, 2022
A fraction of the wind and solar projects already proposed in Texas could eliminate the state’s remaining coal power plants and their emissions, according to Rice University engineers.
March 21, 2022
Germaine Franco ’84’s score for Disney’s “Encanto” is the music everyone is humming right now.
Fette awarded Fulbright grant to research migration, citizenship in French children’s literature
March 21, 2022
Grant recognizes a career dedicated to cultural ambassadorship between France and the United States
Humanities hosts daylong visit for high schoolers hoping to study the environment
March 14, 2022
These students picked Rice for a reason
Ambitious ‘Archives of the Impossible’ conference convenes international audience
March 14, 2022
“We are here for just one little thing: to change reality itself.”