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...
Mothers with incarcerated children shoulder emotional and financial burdens
February 12, 2025
The financial and emotional toll borne by mothers whose adult children have experienced incarceration is often overlooked but can exacerbate financial burdens, especially for Black mothers, according to new research from Rice sociologist Brielle Bryan.
True love: Rice chooses Houston as its valentine
February 11, 2025
Members of the Rice community gathered Feb. 10 at the Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall in an act of love by creating Valentine’s Day cards for the community in partnership with United Way of Greater Houston. Faculty, staff and students came together in droves to fold, decorate and write messages, showing that the people of Houston are the heart of the city this Valentine’s Day.
Rice students build interactive platform to track carbon capture risks in Texas
February 11, 2025
The website functions like a digital museum exhibit, offering story maps, GIS map visualizations and advocacy tools to help communities understand and respond to potential environmental risks.
Phillip Pyle II’s ‘Spectrum Sammy’ brings color, curiosity, conversation to the Moody
February 11, 2025
A visual artist, graphic designer and photographer, Phillip Pyle II's work engages with race and popular culture through the lens of graphic design.
February 11, 2025
Rice Reflects, an initiative of Rice’s Office of the Provost to highlight and create opportunities for conversations across perceived differences, is announcing its next four events available for students, faculty and staff.
‘Smaller and better’: Rice research uncovers performance sweet spot for relaxor nanomaterial
February 11, 2025
A new study led by Rice materials scientist Lane Martin sheds light on how the extreme miniaturization of thin films affects the behavior of relaxor ferroelectrics — materials with noteworthy energy-conversion properties used in sensors, actuators and nanoelectronics.
Caught in the crossfire: How political attacks erode public trust in local news
February 11, 2025
Local news outlets, long seen as the most trusted source for keeping communities informed, are facing a new challenge: political attacks that are chipping away at public trust.
Mitzvah Marathon inspires good deeds from Owls
February 10, 2025
Mitzvah, the Hebrew word for good deed, was embraced not just in word but also by action on Feb. 4 at Rice. Chabad at Rice welcomed faculty, staff and students to the Central Quad to participate by donating blood, making sandwiches for people without homes, creating cards for young hospital patients and entering a bone marrow registry.
February 10, 2025
Rice scientists and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have demonstrated a new method for detecting the presence of dangerous chemicals from tobacco smoke in human placentas with unprecedented speed and precision.
February 10, 2025
Joan Rea, professor emerita who passed away Jan. 19 at the age of 95, was among the first faculty members to spotlight the wealth of Latin American literature, earning a reputation for her deep knowledge, passionate teaching and commitment to student success.