Senior Spotlight: Esther Jimenez ’25...
At the Association of Rice Alumni’s 2025 Laureates Awards ceremony May 8, the group will bestow its highest honor — the Gold Medal Award — to the late...
Rice’s Office of Access and Institutional Excellence welcomed author and free speech advocate Suzanne Nossel to campus April 28 for a conversation on ...
Rice’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, inducted 21 new members....
Rice President Reginald DesRoches was recognized for his visionary leadership and lifelong commitment to education at the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Associ...
With federal research funding in the headlines in recent months, Rice's Office of Public Affairs is spotlighting what’s at stake — and what’s possible...
A new study led by researchers from the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice has introduced an innovative solution that could i...
Menachem Elimelech was honored with the Sidney Loeb Award at the European Desalination Society Conference held in Porto, Portugal, April 28. ...
As India’s influence grows in fields such as climate change, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, Rice is positioning itself to be a key collabo...
For senior Dasseny Arreola, pursuing two majors, one minor, three research fellowships and even a novel was never about checking boxes....
More than 80 scientists from around the globe gathered at Rice for the School on Electron Correlations and Topology....
Rice researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that excels at interpreting optical spectra, potentially enabling faster and more pre...
Owls open season with Puerto Rico Baseball Challenge
February 14, 2025
Rice opens its 110th college baseball season in a new venue as the Owls join seven other schools in the first Puerto Rico Baseball Challenge, Friday through Sunday.
Spring Fling returns to Moody Center for the Arts with Madison McFerrin and DJ DOUBLEDUTCH
February 14, 2025
The March 1 event runs from 7-9 p.m. with special access to the galleries from 5-7 p.m.
Cristian Măcelaru returns to the Shepherd School for 2 February concerts
February 13, 2025
Grammy-winning conductor and alumnus Cristian Măcelaru ’06 ’08 is returning to Rice’s Shepherd School of Music for two upcoming performances, marking his first visit since being named distinguished visiting artist.
OpenStax algebra curriculum receives unanimous approval in Texas
February 13, 2025
OpenStax, the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources based at Rice, announced that its algebra curriculum has received unanimous approval from the Texas State Board of Education. With this approval, the curriculum has been added to the Texas Instructional Materials Allocation list, underscoring OpenStax’s commitment to providing secondary educators with affordable, high-quality resources that support student success.
February 13, 2025
The Rice lab of bioengineer Gang Bao and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the liver, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for about 700 genetic disorders in this vital organ as well as in other organs and tissues.
February 13, 2025
When medicine, technology and the humanities intersect, the result is a conversation that challenges the status quo and reimagines the future of health care.
Glasscock School of Continuing Studies launches teaching minor
February 13, 2025
Rice’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies is now offering a minor in teaching, marking the school’s first undergraduate credential.
Rice convenes experts to examine history, identity and global impact of Haiti
February 13, 2025
Exploring Haiti’s colonial past, its revolution and independence and its contemporary challenges, the symposium “Haiti and the World: Global Encounters of the Past, Present and Future” addressed themes such as migration, political resilience, economic struggles and environmental concerns.
Rice Master of Global Affairs students take on international policy negotiation in Paris
February 12, 2025
In their final semester, a group of Master of Global Affairs students applied their academic knowledge in a real-world setting, spending a week in Paris.
Rice’s Lydia Kavraki elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 12, 2025
Rice computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer, for her work on “developing randomized motion-planning algorithms for robotics and robotics-inspired methods in biomedicine.”