The Digital Health Institute — a recently launched joint initiative between Rice University and Houston Methodist — has appointed Pothik Chatterjee as...
Rice University students will build skills in science labs, take high-impact field trips, hear from guest speakers, curate art exhibits, enhance learn...
Twenty-seven biotechnology governance entreaties echoing the legacy of the 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines are now available for public review....
A new sustainability initiative is transforming the landscape outside Fondren Library at Rice University — and it’s more than just a garden....
A team of researchers at Rice has discovered a surprisingly simple method for vastly improving the stability of electrochemical devices that convert c...
Rice faculty are available to help news media explore the deeper histories behind Juneteenth, its Texas roots and what freedom has meant in different ...
The Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative launched its inaugural seminar June 3 with an invited talk from Nobel laureate James P. Allison....
Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research releases its 2025 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report....
Rice experts can unpack and contextualize Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's statement at the VivaTech 2025 conference in Paris today that quantum computing is...
Throughout the day, the Houston booth saw a constant stream of visitors with Rice-affiliated entrepreneurs introducing their ventures to global invest...
Volunteers from the Department of Psychological Sciences assemble gift bags for those supported by Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston....
A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables...
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator announces Class 3 ventures
June 20, 2023
Fifteen new energy ventures that are building technologies to accelerate the energy transition will work with the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator as part of the third cohort of the program.
Nakhleh elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
June 16, 2023
Rice Dean of Engineering Luay Nakhleh has been elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.
Rice mourns loss of Douglas Oliver, former School of Architecture professor
June 16, 2023
Rice University professor in practice Douglas Eugene Oliver Jr., an accomplished architect and teacher who was cherished for his personability and expertise in and outside of the classroom, passed away on Monday, June 12, at 63 years old.
Study: ‘Multiplicity of impact’ from natural disasters affects Black people most
June 16, 2023
The many personal, physical and social impacts of natural disasters disproportionately affect Black people, and such events can have political consequences for local governments regardless of constituents’ political ideology, according to new research from Rice University.
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.