Rice Business Plan Competition announces 2022 teams
February 23, 2022
The 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business, will be back in person and on campus April 7-9.
February 23, 2022
Houston’s low-income neighborhoods bear the biggest burdens during catastrophic events — from damage to older homes during natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and last year’s winter storm to economic hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic — according to a Harris County Community Services Department analysis prepared by Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Ancient DNA reveals surprises about how early Africans lived, traveled and interacted
February 23, 2022
A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a fascinating tale of how early humans lived, traveled and even found their significant others.
Xue Sherry Gao wins CAREER Award
February 21, 2022
Rice engineer Xue Sherry Gao has won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to create versatile new toolkits for controlling gene expression.
Physicists harness electrons to make ‘synthetic dimensions’
February 21, 2022
Rice University physicists have learned to manipulate electrons in gigantic Rydberg atoms with such precision they can create “synthetic dimensions” where the system acts as if it had extra spatial dimensions, which are important tools for quantum simulations.
Inaugural class of Rice Innovation Fellows announced
February 17, 2022
The Provost’s Office and the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Lilie) have announced the inaugural class of Rice Innovation Fellows, a program that will provide educational and financial support to the next generation of scientist- and engineer-led spinout ventures.
CPRIT supports work on combo cancer therapy
February 17, 2022
Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao is developing a three-pronged attack on solid cancer tumors. The research now has the support of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Environmental champions win Rice grants
February 16, 2022
The Rice University Sustainable Futures Fund backs six projects to help bolster the planet’s environmental health.
As time goes on, Americans are moving less often
February 16, 2022
Migration in the United States has been on a downward trend since the 1960s, according to new research from Rice University.
Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, announced as Rice’s 2022 commencement speaker
February 16, 2022
Sonia Nazario, an award-winning journalist whose work has tackled some of the United States’ most intractable problems — hunger, drug addiction and immigration — will deliver the 2022 commencement address at Rice University.
Rice Theatre presents ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’
February 15, 2022
Acclaimed musical comedy comes to Hamman Hall Feb. 25-26, March 3-5
Strong magnets put new twist on phonons
February 15, 2022
Phonons, quasiparticles in a crystal lattice that are usually hard to control by external fields, can be manipulated by a magnetic field -- but it takes a very strong magnet.
February freeze analyzed one year later
February 15, 2022
Last February’s severe winter storm caused sustained peaks in demand for electricity across Texas, triggering tremendous stress on the state’s power grid and widespread outages lasting days. Now a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy examines why the winter storm caused this deadly electricity supply crisis and how it could have been avoided.
Kolditz, director of Rice's Doerr Institute, announces departure
February 14, 2022
Tom Kolditz, director of Rice University's Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders, has announced his departure from Rice effective June 30, 2022. He will remain with the institute as a member of its external advisory board.
OpenStax, state set resource creation event for educators
February 10, 2022
OpenStax, Rice University’s educational technology initiative, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) will host a free, virtual event for Texas educators to create and revise open educational resources (OER) Feb. 17 and 18.