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....
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.
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.