The Rice Biotech Launch Pad and RBL LLC will celebrate the official launch and lab opening of RBL LLC May 5 with a program featuring biotech pioneers ...
President Reginald DesRoches welcomed hundreds of Rice University staff members to a morning breakfast and recognition ceremony April 23 at Tudor Fiel...
Rice honored exceptional faculty, staff and students for their dedication to teaching, mentoring and service at the annual University Awards Ceremony ...
Rice University recognized six outstanding staff members with the 2025 Staff Excellence Award during the annual staff appreciation event April 23, cel...
Rice will welcome Robert Langer, one of the world’s most influential biotechnology innovators, for a keynote address as part of its President’s Lectur...
Victoria Langlais, senior assistant dean of human resources and administration in Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing, was name...
Torn between a conservatory and a university experience, Sophie Urban said she chose Rice for the “best of both worlds”: world-class musical training ...
Rice Architecture students embarked on a "life-altering" trip to China as part of a course project where they learned from world-renowned architects a...
A cohort of Rice University undergraduates boarded a bus bound for Alabama — not for vacation, but for a deeper understanding of America’s legacy of r...
A report from Rice’s Kinder Institute highlights critical gaps in banking access, retirement savings and financial literacy....
Rice professors Karen Lozano and Eduardo Salas have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious ...
Student engineering teams at Rice demonstrated how hands-on design can drive real-world impact at the 2025 Huff Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen Show...
Rice U. chemist leverages heterogeneity for insight into catalysis, cancer initiation
June 15, 2023
Rice U. chemist Anatoly Kolomeisky has won a National Science Foundation award to study the role of heterogeneity in chemical and biological processes.
Rice and Texas partners’ energy transition proposal named semifinalist for major NSF Engines grant
June 15, 2023
A coalition between Rice University, the Greater Houston Partnership’s Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI) and four other leading Texas research universities has been named a semifinalist for the National Science Foundation Engines program.
June 15, 2023
Even after suffering flood damage, homeowners in mostly white communities prefer to accept higher risk of disaster repeating itself than relocate to areas with more racial diversity and less flood risk, according to new research from Rice University.
Rice anthropologist Dominic Boyer elected to executive board of American Anthropological Association
June 14, 2023
Dominic Boyer, a professor of anthropology in the School of Social Sciences at Rice University, has been elected to the executive board of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
June 14, 2023
Xayvion Davidson, a rising sophomore studying bassoon at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, won first place and audience favorite at the inaugural Cynthia Woods Mitchell-Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition June 11.
Owls volleyball team soaks in Brazil
June 14, 2023
The Rice Owls volleyball team took a trip to Brazil June 1-11 that included four matches against club and national teams.
Religious calling to a job can motivate employees but might result in mistreatment going unaddressed
June 14, 2023
Feeling a religious or spiritual calling to a job can be a huge motivator, but it can also potentially result in employee mistreatment and exploitation going unaddressed, according to new research from Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance and the Religion and Public Life Program.
Rice's Nai-Hui Chia awarded Google funding to study quantum simulations
June 13, 2023
Rice computer scientist Nai-Hui Chia has won a prestigious Google Scholar Award, which includes funding to further his research on the use of quantum computers to simulate quantum physical systems.
Multicultural Community Relations hosts Texas Diversity Council Summer Youth Program
June 13, 2023
More than 80 high school students from the Greater Houston area attended the 13th annual Texas Diversity Council Summer Youth Program at Rice, hosted by Multicultural Community Relations in the Office of Public Affairs.
ARPA-E announces $100 million funding initiative at Rice event
June 13, 2023
Rice welcomed more than 100 energy innovation leaders to campus June 8 for a first-of-its-kind event by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) where ARPA-E director Evelyn Wang announced $100 million in new commercialization funding for innovative energy technologies.