Rice took center stage at the inaugural South by Southwest London, bringing Texas-sized ambition, pathbreaking innovation and global vision to one of ...
A team of six Rice students developed a device that holds and stabilizes an intracardiac echocardiography catheter during heart procedures, allowing ...
Rice's Yonglong Xie has been recognized for his innovation in quantum phenomena....
The project titled “Living Memory: An Oral History Project to Strengthen Native Sovereignty in Texas” began in fall 2024 as part of the Center for Civ...
The program is designed to deepen students’ fluency in a language essential to the operatic tradition. ...
Nearly 1,000 people gathered to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the release of its 2025 Kinder Housto...
Rice Athletics announced that it will partner with Independent Sports and Entertainment to identify a potential naming rights partner for Rice Stadium...
The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center at Rice, in collaboration with a team of experts, has developed the Galves...
Xue Sherry Gao wins CAREER Award
February 21, 2022
Rice engineer Xue Sherry Gao has won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to create versatile new toolkits for controlling gene expression.
Physicists harness electrons to make ‘synthetic dimensions’
February 21, 2022
Rice University physicists have learned to manipulate electrons in gigantic Rydberg atoms with such precision they can create “synthetic dimensions” where the system acts as if it had extra spatial dimensions, which are important tools for quantum simulations.
Marcia O’Malley named AIMBE fellow
February 21, 2022
Rice mechanical engineer Marcia O’Malley has been named an AIMBE fellow in recognition of her contributions to rehabilitation robotics, haptics and robotic surgery.
Environmental champions win Rice grants
February 16, 2022
The Rice University Sustainable Futures Fund backs six projects to help bolster the planet’s environmental health.
Kate Shepherd’s first permanent wall painting on public view installed at Rice
February 14, 2022
The piece joins the university’s growing collection of public art
Bacterial ‘bully’ could improve food production
February 14, 2022
Lactic acid bacteria that thrive in many organisms, including humans, employ a hybrid metabolism that combines respiration and fermentation to give it an advantage over competitors. Researchers say the discovery could lead to enhanced techniques for food and chemical production.
Rice announces plans to be carbon neutral by 2030
February 11, 2022
Rice President David Leebron and Provost Reginald DesRoches outlined the efforts in a message to the university community Feb. 11.
Rice to host international conference on scholarship of the paranormal March 3-6
February 10, 2022
“Opening the Archives of the Impossible” will also showcase collections housed in university library
Clearly, this heart beats strong
February 9, 2022
In time for Valentine’s Day, engineers at Rice University and Waseda University provide a realistic view of what happens inside a beating heart.
Rare earth elements await in waste
February 9, 2022
Rice University scientists applied their flash Joule heating process to coal fly ash and other toxic waste to safely extract rare earth elements essential to modern electronics and green technologies.