A new program at Rice is giving students a front-row seat to the stories shaping Houston and putting them behind a microphone to tell them.
A team of Rice engineering students macgyvered a 1980 Datsun 200 SX into a race-ready vehicle, complete with Orwell-inspired theming....
Parthasarathy Ranganathan, vice president and engineering fellow at Google, discussed the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence and the technical...
Three Rice students spent their spring break piloting a mobile health platform designed to support community health workers in underserved regions, in...
The Claudio X. González Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy convened its second annual U.S. Policy Outlook conf...
Rice’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance awarded its 2026 Senior Scholar Award to John Inazu, the Sally D. Danfort...
Hundreds of men gather at Rice for an open conversation about mental health....
Deborah Nelson-Campbell spent her scholarly life amplifying silenced medieval women while also being a formative, present voice for her own students. ...
A group of graduate students at Rice is helping shape the long-term sustainability vision for The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion through a yearlong “...
A new program at Rice is giving students a front-row seat to the stories shaping Houston and putting them behind a microphone to tell them....
Rice researchers have developed extremely stable perovskite crystalline films for long-lasting, high-efficiency solar cells....
Rice senior Lupita Frias shares how struggles at Rice unmasked her greatest strength: resilience....
Team UroVac won top prize at the Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase....
Perovskite solar cells skip yellow phase, degrade slower thanks to key additives
Rice researchers have developed extremely stable perovskite crystalline films for long-lasting, high-efficiency solar cells.
Senior Spotlight 2026: Frias brings resiliency to Rice, research and leadership
Rice senior Lupita Frias shares how struggles at Rice unmasked her greatest strength: resilience.
Team UroVac wins top engineering prize for bladder cancer device at Rice’s Huff OEDK Showcase
Team UroVac won top prize at the Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase.
Moody Fest enters fourth year, draws thousands
Rice’s Founder’s Court looked less like the serene grassy knoll it usually is and more like an illuminated music festival Friday evening as around 2,000 students gathered for Moody Fest. Themed Glow this year, it was a lively celebration filled with live music, games, complimentary bites from local vendors and custom swag like light-up sticks and radiant headpieces.
‘Take advantage of every moment’: Brian Gibson wins Elizabeth Gillis Award
Brian Gibson, senior associate dean of undergraduates, was named this year’s winner of the Elizabeth Gillis Award for Exemplary Service at Rice President Reginald DesRoches’ annual event celebrating staff accomplishments April 23 at Tudor Fieldhouse.
Greg Marshall’s ‘right livelihood’: A career of connection leads to Rice’s Y. Ping Sun Award
Greg Marshall was awarded the Y. Ping Sun Award for Community Engagement, one of Rice’s highest honors for service beyond campus.
Rice hosts global quantum experts in Paris for cutting-edge conference
A Rice-led conference in Paris convened global experts in cavity quantum electrodynamics to explore new approaches to controlling light-matter interactions and advancing quantum technologies.
Future Owls flock to Rice for Owl Days
Rice recently welcomed admitted students and their families to campus for Owl Days and Owl Days Express. The program is an opportunity for new students to explore the campus and its surrounding area. The Class of 2030 connected with fellow Owls, learned more about what the next four years may look like and experienced the university’s community, academics and culture of care.
Room-temperature multiferroic could pave way to low-energy computing
Rice researchers engineered a new version of a well-known multiferroic that exhibits orders of magnitude higher performance at room temperature than its parent material.