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....
Orchestra resumes performing at Shepherd School amid pandemic
March 22, 2021
If you walk through the Shepherd School of Music's Alice Pratt Brown Hall, you'll notice some familiar sounds coming from Stude Concert Hall – sounds that haven't been heard for the better part of a year.
NEST360° probes pandemic dangers for newborns
March 22, 2021
Research facilitated by Rice University-based NEST360° is underscoring the need for COVID-19 treatment guidelines to safeguard newborn lives in some countries.
The questions of our time: Humanities courses encourage closer examination of daily life
March 19, 2021
Rice's Big Questions courses speak to issues that are fundamental to our experience.
A new look at ‘The Red Book,' a 1915 artifact of Black life in Houston
March 18, 2021
A midwife named Annie Hagen “came to Houston with 50 cents and through her industry and thrift … accumulated a nice bit of property” around the turn of the 20th century.
Graduate Student Association hosts COVID-conscious ‘Culture Night’ on campus
March 17, 2021
The Korean Graduate Student Association was giving out seaweed-wrapped kimbap and shots of a sweet yogurt drink from picnic tables outside Brockman Hall.
Unique topics, returning favorites and leading faculty: Humanities’ summer course offerings heat up
March 15, 2021
From environmental studies and medical humanities courses to a survey of "Star Wars," there's something for everyone this summer.
Pandemic’s end now in sight, experts say
March 15, 2021
On the day after President Biden announced that every American will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine by May 1, two top Rice University scientists focused on the pandemic voiced both optimism and grave concern.
US must prepare for long-term economic fallout from pandemic, says Baker Institute expert
March 15, 2021
The U.S. economy appears to be improving, but the pandemic will have a lasting macroeconomic impact, according to an expert from Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice Stadium to become community vaccination site
March 8, 2021
The facility has already begun vaccinating some Rice students, faculty and staff — by appointment only — as part of a “soft launch” before ramping up full operations next week.
Eddie Glaude on the moment the ‘cold civil war’ turned hot
March 8, 2021
The Princeton professor's Campbell Lecture on March 4 tackled the stakes of racial justice and the future of American democracy.