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...
Physicists find unusual waves in nickel-based magnet
April 17, 2023
Rice physicists and collaborators have discovered “spin exciton” excitations can ripple through a nickel-based magnet as a coherent wave.
Rice Thresher earns accolades from peers, industry heavyweights
April 17, 2023
At the Fall National College Media Convention, the nation’s largest gathering of college journalists and advisers, the Rice Thresher staff earned a podium position in the “Best of Show” category — reminiscent of a David vs. Goliath achievement.
Rice baseball celebrates Vamos Búhos day at Reckling Park
April 17, 2023
The Rice baseball team celebrated Vamos Búhos day April 16 at Reckling Park before and during the Owls’ matchup with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
People, papers and presentations for April 17, 2023
April 17, 2023
Last month, Il Pirata Records released “DO NOT LAMENT,” the recording debut of Shepherd School alum Rebecca Scout Nelson, a vocalist and baroque violinist. Richie Hawley, a professor of clarinet at the Shepherd School, is president of the record label.
April 17, 2023
Rice U. lab develops sustainable chemical synthesis tool; Julian West derives alcohol products from epoxides
Expert examines structural racism
April 17, 2023
Heather McGhee, visiting lecturer in urban studies at the City University of New York, discussed themes from her new book “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” March 29 at McMurtry Auditorium. The renowned public policy expert examined structural racism as the driver of inequality — not just for people of color, but for everyone.
Alex Dessler, founding father of Rice space science, dies at 94
April 14, 2023
Pioneering space scientist Alexander Dessler, who taught at Rice University for 30 years after founding the first university department dedicated to the study of space science at the height of the U.S.-Soviet space race, died April 9 at age 94.
Team OR Lights wins Rice’s 2023 Engineering Design Showcase
April 14, 2023
Team OR Lights captured the top prize at this year’s Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase, presented annually by Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK).
DesRoches, design firm discuss reimagined Academic Quad with faculty, staff
April 14, 2023
Rice University faculty and staff gathered April 11 to learn more and provide feedback regarding the proposed Academic Quadrangle redesign.
Annual Rice competition renamed Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase
April 14, 2023
The George R. Brown School of Engineering Design Showcase and Poster Competition, coordinated by Rice’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK), kicked off April 13 with remarks from President Reginald DesRoches — in which he announced the event will now be known as the Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase