Rice undergraduate engineering design showcase and competition to be held April 11 Apr. 9, 2024
The Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK), Rice University’s signature hub for undergraduate engineering innovation, will hold its annual Harrell and Carolyn Huff engineering design showcase and competition on April 11 at the Ion.
A decade of discovery: 10 years of Rice’s Archives of the Impossible Apr. 9, 2024
It all started with a conversation during a ride to the airport in December 2014. Jeffrey Kripal, Rice University’s J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, was wrapping up a trip to Berkeley, California, where he’d spent time with Jacques Vallée.
Owls flock to central quad to view solar eclipse Apr. 8, 2024
Hundreds of Rice students, faculty and staff could be seen sporting special solar eclipse glasses and gazing into the sky at the central quad during the afternoon April 8 as much of the campus gathered to view the historic solar eclipse.
Rice Global Paris Center hosts art history students, faculty during spring break trip Apr. 8, 2024
Rice’s Department of Art History embarked on a journey to Paris in March, marking the 10th anniversary of its annual spring break trip.
Gov. Abbott to speak at Rice Baker Institute April 9 at Texas Electricity Policy Summit Apr. 8, 2024
Texas Governor Greg Abbott will speak at the April 9 Texas Electricity Policy Summit at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Dateline Rice for April 8, 2024 (Weekend Edition) Apr. 8, 2024
Dateline Rice for April 8, 2024 (Weekend Edition)
Protein ice cream company wins 2024 Rice Business Plan Competition Apr. 8, 2024
Ice cream company Protein Pints took home the grand prize at the 2024 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) April 6 as the best student ventures from top universities across the world competed for prizes in front of nearly 350 angel, venture capital and corporate investors and members of the business community.
Staff Spotlight: Kade Smith Apr. 8, 2024
Kade Smith is the associate director of development in the major gifts regional team. He's also an alumnus who has spent many years as both a student and an employee of Rice University.
Rolling into spring fun with 67th annual Beer Bike race Apr. 8, 2024
Rice University’s annual intramural bicycle race, Beer Bike, took place April 6 and saw Rice’s 11 residential colleges and the Graduate Student Association compete for bragging rights.
Richard Tapia celebrated for 50 years of service at Rice Apr. 8, 2024
National Medal of Science winner Richard Tapia, a University Professor, the Maxfield-Oshman Professor in Engineering and professor of computational applied mathematics and operations research at Rice University, was celebrated for five decades of service to the university April 3 at Rice’s Faculty Club. He is widely recognized as a national leader in the preparation of women and underrepresented minorities for advanced degrees in science, engineering and mathematics.
Rice to host international conference exploring Michel Foucault’s legacy Apr. 8, 2024
Rice University will convene a group of international scholars as part Foucault: 40 Years After, a world congress commemorating the enduring legacy of Michel Foucault.
Discovery points path to flashlike memory for storing qubits Apr. 5, 2024
Rice physicists have discovered a phase-changing quantum material — and a method for finding more like it — that could potentially be used to create flashlike memory capable of storing quantum bits of information, or qubits, even when a quantum computer is powered down.
Shepherd School students combine their new music with new art at Rice’s Moody Center Apr. 5, 2024
Students from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music composed and performed a series of compositions that served as musical responses to the themes and artworks present in the Moody Center for the Arts’ spring 2024 exhibition Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign Among Us.
Dateline Rice for April 5, 2024 Apr. 5, 2024
Dateline Rice for April 5, 2024
Rice celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride Week April 8-14 Apr. 5, 2024
Rice University will host its Pride Week April 8-14. The festivities will include learning opportunities, drag performances, inclusivity events, a parade and The Gayla.
