As Rice’s December graduates receive their degrees, they look to take on a wide range of challenges as they impart their wisdom gained at Rice on the ...
In less than an hour, Dean Seiichi Matsuda and the graduate and postdoctoral studies staff doled out 102 cakes from two local bakeries amounting to an...
Rice bioengineer Omid Veiseh has been elected as a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded to inventors....
Rawand Rasheed ’23, a Rice University alumnus and trailblazer in sustainable technology, has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the “Energy and...
The Rice School of Architecture is proud to announce the opening of William T. Cannady Hall for Architecture and a strategic renovation of MD Anderson...
Rice bioengineering graduate students in the Global Medical Innovation program recently visited the Rio Grande Valley to better understand the unique ...
Over 500 students will conclude their academic journeys as Rice Owls when they walk during the December commencement ceremony Dec. 10....
Researchers are developing a novel antibody therapy to treat bone metastases in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer....
Roland Smith receives namesake award from American Association of Blacks in Higher Education
April 6, 2021
The American Association of Blacks in Higher Education (AABHE) recognized this fact March 16 by awarding him the first Dr. Roland B. Smith Jr. Leadership Award. In addition to his work at Rice and within the larger community, Smith is the director of partnerships of the AABHE, an organization he’s served in a variety of leadership roles since 1986, including a term as its president.
Houston flooding polluted reefs more than 100 miles offshore
April 6, 2021
Flower Garden Banks fouled by runoff from 2017's Harvey and 2016's Tax Day floods, Rice research finds.
Rice Business Plan Competition events to be livestreamed
April 5, 2021
Three events during this week's Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) — the world's largest and richest student startup competition — will be livestreamed.
New Student Association and Graduate Student Association members elected
April 2, 2021
Presidents look forward to a fresh fall semester.
March 29, 2021
A recent study from Indiana University-Purdue University and the University of Oklahoma suggests Americans who “strongly embrace Christian nationalism” — which, the authors note, is nearly 25% of the U.S. population and growing — are also much more likely to refuse COVID-19 vaccination.
Cathy Park Hong on the ‘Asian American Reckoning’
March 29, 2021
The right-wing conspiracy movement QAnon reportedly has started peddling anti-Chinese rhetoric. It’s the latest in a troubling trend of anti-Asian sentiment, on the rise across America, as addressed by Rice President David Leebron in a recent message to the Rice community.
‘Personal experiences of joy’: Baker College senior Pikus wins Watson Fellowship
March 26, 2021
“I feel grateful having come to Rice, because I feel like it allowed me to go with the flow, have fun, learn things and follow my passion.”
Acclaimed author, alumnus Larry McMurtry dies at 84
March 26, 2021
Larry McMurtry ’60, who launched his writing career as a student at Rice University — a place he considered his “intellectual home”— and became famous for such memorable novels as “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and “Terms of Endearment” among his dozens of other books and screenplays, has died. He was 84.
Does selfishness evolve? Ask a cannibal
March 25, 2021
Biologists have used one of nature's most prolific cannibals to show how social structure affects the evolution of selfish behavior. Researchers showed they could drive the evolution of less selfish behavior in Indian meal moths with habitat changes that forced larval caterpillars to interact more often with siblings.
Corals may need their predators' poop
March 23, 2021
Fish that dine on corals may pay it forward with poop. Rice University marine biologists found high concentrations of living symbiotic algae in the feces of coral predators on reefs in Mo'orea, French Polynesia.