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...
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.
Air bubbles in Antarctic ice point to cause of oxygen decline
December 20, 2021
An unknown culprit has been removing oxygen from our atmosphere for at least 800,000 years, and an analysis of air bubbles preserved in Antarctic ice for up to 1.5 million years has revealed the likely suspect.