Rice lab develops new technique for rapid production of advanced materials
Rice professor James Tour developed an ultrafast method for producing MXenes.
Rising insurance costs deepen Texas’ housing affordability challenge
New research suggests insurance premiums are playing an increasingly important role in housing affordability across the state.
Rice receives gift from Kraft family to advance athletics and Jewish studies
Rice has received a generous gift from alumna and trustee Patti Lipoma Kraft and her husband, Jonathan Kraft, to support two university priorities.
Rice and TMC partners secure climate health consortium grant to face climate change and human health
A team of climate and environmental scientists, educators, epidemiologists and infectious disease researchers from Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas School of Public Health has been awarded the inaugural Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Climate + Health Excellence award, an initiative designed to strengthen research, education and public engagement related to climate change and human health.
Rice researchers use electrical charge to improve controlled peptide delivery
Rice engineers have developed a new strategy for controlling how therapeutic peptides are released from gelatin-based materials, a step that could make the small but powerful molecules more useful in tissue engineering and drug delivery.
Rice bioengineers develop biochemical halo to cloak insulin-producing cells from body defenses
Rice researchers engineered a living factory.
Rice remembers trustee emeritus Doyle Arnold, champion of economics education and public discourse
Rice trustee emeritus, whose generosity helped shape generations of Rice students, remembered.
Rice to lead $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications
Rice will lead a $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications.
Rice researcher honored for advancing science behind AI and human assessment
Rice psychological scientist recognized with early career award for distinguished contributions to research methods research, practice, education and service.
Rice has announced a major expansion of the Rice Investment, its signature financial aid program, offering free tuition to undergraduate students from families earning up to $200,000 annually.
New controls allow researchers to incorporate thermal effects in quantum simulation
Rice physicist Guido Pagano unveiled a new, two-knob control for a trapped-ion quantum simulator that allows individual control of temperature and dissipation.
Bun B is back on campus: Trill Burgers coming to Rice University
Trill Burgers, the award-winning smashed burger concept from legendary rapper and entrepreneur Bernard Freeman (Bun B), is coming to Rice. Beginning Aug. 17 for new student orientation, Trill Burgers will serve at the Rice Memorial Center throughout the fall and spring semesters, bringing its beef and vegan burgers to the Rice campus.
Rice researchers develop technology to clean salty wastewater while recovering valuable metals
A team led by Shihong Lin has shown that electrochemical ion pumping can be programmed to desalinate wastewater while selectively recovering dissolved metals such as copper.
Shedding light on new type of magnetism in quantum materials
Rice's Ming Yi recently showed that the quantum material ruthenium dioxide potentially displays this new altermagnetism in its ultrathin film form in which the material is prepared as a very thin slice only a few atomic layers thick.
Rice research offers new perspective on how Asian Americans develop political identities
Rice associate professor of political science sought to better understand how members of one of America’s fastest-growing racial and immigrant populations come to learn about the American political system and develop their political identities.