The Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives at Rice welcomed four high school students June 9-13 as inaugural STJA Archival Fellows, o...
Rice hosted the 15th annual Texas Leadership Consortium Summer Youth Program June 9-13. This weeklong camp engaged 100 students from Houston area high...
Rice welcomed five distinguished alumni back to campus June 13 for the university’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration. The event, featuring a panel ...
A powerful work of public art that captured global attention when it first appeared on the facade of the Jerusalem Tolerance Museum is now making hist...
Housed within the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library, the archives have amassed more than a million documents, recordings and files related to...
Rice researchers and collaborators have developed a new cavity design that selectively enhances the quantum vacuum fluctuations of circularly polarize...
The university joined the Greater Houston Partnership in hosting the first city booth at the global event, which drew more than 180,000 attendees from...
The newly released 2025 State of Housing report from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, shows rising home prices, surging insurance premiums ...
RBL LLC announced the appointment of James Watson to its board of directors....
In a milestone moment for science education and collaboration, Rice hosted its first DUNE-TECH (DUNE Training ExperienCe Hub) camp this June, drawing ...
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) at Rice has unveiled the eight high-potential ventures selected for the third annual Lili...
A research team led by Rice has introduced an innovative strategy that uses converted enzymes to streamline synthetic pathways....
Rice hosts workshop on improving low vision mobility
August 8, 2022
The Rice Workshop on Improving Mobility with Low Vision took place July 29 at the BioScience Research Collaborative and online.
O-Week 2022: Rice set to welcome incoming Class of 2026 Aug. 14
August 8, 2022
Just a few days shy of the start of O-Week, Rice’s time-honored new student orientation, every corner of campus is preparing for the arrival of the university’s second-largest incoming undergraduate class of all time on Aug. 14.
IBB picks top posters by summer research undergrads
August 8, 2022
The Institute for BioSciences and Engineering holds its annual Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates symposium and poster competition.
Team led by Rice’s Saltz wins grant to examine environment’s impact on fruit flies
August 8, 2022
Rice University researcher Julia Saltz and two co-principal investigators have received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate and model the underlying factors of genetic variation in trait development in fruit flies across environments and over generations.
People, papers and presentations for Aug. 8, 2022
August 8, 2022
Alyssa Cahoy, a senior Health Sciences student in the Department of Kinesiology, won the Morehouse College Project Imhotep Public Health Leadership Award during her summer internship at the Atlanta program.
Reversing decline in college enrollment hinges on labor market, says Baker Institute expert
August 8, 2022
When and if enrollment levels rebound depends mainly on the strength of the labor market, which hinges on the economy’s response to Federal Reserve interest rate hikes designed to combat inflation, argues Joyce Beebe, fellow in public finance at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, in a recent blog post.
CDC names Houston Health Department, Rice a wastewater epidemiology Center of Excellence
August 5, 2022
A system to track COVID-19 through Houston’s wastewater became the basis of an epidemiology center that has now earned special designation from the U.S. government and $1 million in its first year of federal funding.
Water can’t touch this sanded, powdered surface
August 4, 2022
Rice scientists and engineers develop a one-step method involving sandpaper and powder to make robust superhydrophobic materials.
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator announces Class 2 startups
August 4, 2022
The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator’s second annual class will put a spotlight on 17 early- to mid-stage startups that collectively have already raised more than $54.5 million.
Rice lab’s ‘drug factory’ implants cleared for human trials
August 3, 2022
Federal regulators have approved the first human clinical trial of cancer-killing “drug factory” implants created by Rice bioengineers.