News Releases

Rice hosts annual sustainability Carbon HUB conference

Rice University will host its 2024 Carbon Hub Annual Meeting May 6-7. The two-day event set to take place on campus promises a dynamic lineup of panel discussions, technical sessions, networking opportunities and roundtable meetings with experts from industry, academia and foundations.

Rice, Baylor College of Medicine centers jointly award seed grants

Rice University’s Synthesis X Center (SynthX) and Baylor College of Medicine’s Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center have jointly awarded their first innovation seed grants to three teams of research collaborators from Rice and Baylor.

Rice’s Yousif Shamoo elected AAAS fellow

Rice University bioscientist Yousif Shamoo has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Two Rice faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rice professors Pedro Alvarez and Antonios Mikos have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the nation.

Underwater robot pioneers new energy-efficient buoyancy control

A remotely operated underwater robot built by a team of Rice University engineering students pioneers a new way to control buoyancy via water-splitting fuel cells.

Rice’s OpenStax awarded $90M to lead first-of-its-kind NSF research hub for transformational learning and education research

OpenStax at Rice University was awarded $90 million from the National Science Foundation to build and lead SafeInsights, a groundbreaking research and development (R&D) hub for inclusive learning and education research to benefit tens of millions of students and their instructors across all educational levels.

Rice students build low-cost cold spray metal 3D printer prototype

A team of Rice University students has developed a cold spray metal 3D printing device that relies on pressure and velocity rather than temperature to create a metal part.

Christian nationalism experts to discuss political future of the ideology within US religious, political life at Rice Baker Institute event

Experts on Christian nationalism will examine the ideology within American religious and political life at an April 26 event hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance.

University of Houston and Rice announce 2024 business accelerator cohort

The University of Houston and Rice University continue their 11-year collaboration to support Houston entrepreneurship by announcing the latest cohort of their respective startup and small business accelerators, RED Labs and OwlSpark. This summer the accelerators will host their ventures at the Ion, the heart of the Houston innovation corridor in Midtown.

Study suggests religion can help the faithful deal with discrimination, can also result in exploitation or encourage victimhood

When faced with perceived racial discrimination in the workplace, new Rice University research finds that Christians lean on their faith to get them through these experiences. However, researchers warn this can lead to employee exploitation or, on the flip side, encouraging feelings of victimhood.

Study uncovers neural mechanisms underlying foraging behavior in freely moving animals

Rice neuroscientist Valentin Dragoi and team shed light on what happens in the brain of freely-moving macaques engaged in foraging behavior.

Rice bioengineers win $1.4M ARPA-H grant for osteoarthritis research

Bioengineers at Rice University have been awarded $1.4 million as part of a multi-center consortium funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop strategies for reversing the effects of osteoarthritis.

Rice alumna wins prestigious merit-based fellowship for new Americans

Rice University alumna Minjung Kim is one of 30 recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants.

Rice’s Lane Martin elected as Materials Research Society fellow

Rice’s Lane Martin was elected a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) “for seminal contributions to the science of ferroelectric and multiferroic thin film materials.”

Rice to lead first NSF-funded workshop on research security, uniting national experts to shape future research and policies

Rice University, in collaboration with the University of Houston, IPTalons and the Society of Research Administrators International, will host a first-of-its-kind national workshop to examine the burgeoning field of research on research security to inform future laws, policies and guidelines aimed at enhancing research security around the world.