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....
Rice Founder’s Memorial statue to be relocated in Academic Quad
January 25, 2022
Rice University’s Academic Quadrangle will undergo a major redesign that will include moving the Founder’s Memorial statue of William Marsh Rice to a new location within the quadrangle.
Heffes appointed co-president of Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
January 24, 2022
Gisela Heffes, professor of modern and classical literatures and cultures, has been appointed co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.
Biologists discover new insect species at Rice University
January 23, 2022
Newly discovered insect Neuroterus valhalla is barely a millimeter long and spends 11 months of the year locked in a crypt. It’s legendary sounding name stems from where it was discovered: A tree outside Rice’s graduate student pub Valhalla.
New models assess bridge support repairs after earthquakes
January 18, 2022
Civil engineers develop a computational modeling strategy to help plan effective repairs to damaged reinforced concrete columns.
A musical talent that shimmers
January 18, 2022
For many students, the focus of their first semester in college is on navigating a new chapter of their lives.
Lost birds and mammals spell doom for some plants
January 12, 2022
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers have gauged how biodiversity loss of birds and mammals will impact plants’ chances of adapting to human-induced climate warming.
Rice wins NEH grant to create digital database of Atlantic slave trade
January 12, 2022
Grant will further enhance Rice’s reputation as a center for Africa and African diaspora studies, digital humanities
Moody makes ‘Soundwaves’ for its spring show
January 11, 2022
Exhibition kicks off year of programming for art center’s fifth anniversary
CAAAS lectures call for moral leadership in turbulent times
January 10, 2022
Robert Michael Franklin Jr., Marla Frederick, Lerone Martin and others to speak this semester at Rice
Earth isn’t ‘super’ because the sun had rings before planets
January 5, 2022
Before the solar system had planets, the sun had rings — bands of dust and gas similar to Saturn’s rings — that likely played a role in Earth’s formation, according to a new study.