Arthus Morisson de la Bassetiere, a senior mechanical engineering major and men’s tennis player from Reims, France, has his sights set far beyond the ...
This statement underscores Rice’s unwavering commitment to academic freedom as a cornerstone of scholarly inquiry, open dialogue and the pursuit of kn...
Scott Solomon, a biologist, science communicator and teaching professor in the Department of Biosciences, has been named a 2025 Piper Professor by the...
Following a year full of increased activity for Moody Experience programs, Andy Osborn, program manager of educational initiatives, welcomed campus pa...
Matthew Tyler, an assistant professor of political science at Rice, receives NSF CAREER award....
A team led by Rice's Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity....
At Rice, senior Riya Misra found that studying the humanities wasn’t only about literature; it was about sharpening the essential tools for any storyt...
The 2025 Customer Value Report, authored by marketing researchers at Rice and the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School, evaluat...
For fall 2025, professor Kiese Laymon is breaking new ground with a course that centers on the beef between Lamar and Drake, a cultural moment that’s ...
The transformative impact of the Fulbright Scholar Program is on full display at Rice, where approximately 100 Fulbright students from around 30 count...
Catherine Clack, Rice’s associate vice provost in the Office of Access and Institutional Excellence and director of the Multicultural Center, is retir...
Lydia Kavraki, a leading researcher in robotics, computational biomedicine and artificial intelligence at Rice, has been elected to the National Acade...
Bumps could smooth quantum investigations
June 6, 2022
Rice University materials theorists model a contoured surface overlaid with 2D materials and find it possible to control their electronic and magnetic properties. The discovery could simplify research into many-body effects, including quantum systems.
Rice’s top-ranked I-O psychology program has helped its alumni stand out
June 2, 2022
Earlier this year, Rice University’s graduate program in industrial organizational psychology was ranked No. 1 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report .
Grain boundaries go with the flow
June 2, 2022
Rice engineers mimic atom-scale grain boundaries with magnetic particles to see how shear stress influences their movement.
Zoghbi shares prestigious 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
June 1, 2022
Rice trustee Dr. Huda Zoghbi is a co-recipient of the prestigious 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Bacteria-killing drills get an upgrade
June 1, 2022
Rice scientists have created light-activated molecular drills that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Rice U. research: Disbanding police departments doesn’t affect crime levels
June 1, 2022
Disbanding city police departments and shifting law enforcement responsibilities to county governments appears to have no affect on overall crime rates and leads to fewer police-related deaths, according to new Rice University research. But the same study indicates those communities may be less likely to report their crime statistics to the FBI.
Gun violence prevention, policies to be examined in Baker Institute health and biosciences event
June 1, 2022
Preventing firearm-related injury and death will be the topic of a June 21 event from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Fayez Sarofim, Rice donor and longtime endowment leader, dies at 93
May 31, 2022
Fayez Sarofim, the prominent investment adviser who generously donated to Rice after quietly but cannily steering the university’s endowment through decades of dramatic growth, died Saturday. He was 93.
Leading US diplomat David Satterfield named director of Rice’s Baker Institute
May 31, 2022
Ambassador David M. Satterfield, who has over four decades of diplomatic service and policy and management leadership experience in the United States and overseas in the Near East and Europe, has been named the new director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
People, papers and presentations for May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
Rice track and field athletes Grace Forbes (10,000 meters), Erna Gunnarsdottir (shot put), James McNaney (javelin), Tara Simpson-Sullivan (hammer throw) and Alex Slinkman (pole vault) qualified for the NCAA Championships with their performances at the NCAA West Prelims May 25-28 in Fayetteville, Arkansas