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....
Blockchain tech can help small businesses launch and grow, says Baker Institute expert
June 28, 2022
Blockchain technology can give small businesses and entrepreneurs new avenues for funding their ventures and create opportunities for growth, according to a report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice community hits the streets for LGBTQ Pride celebrations
June 27, 2022
Dozens of members of the Rice community hit the streets of downtown Houston June 25 to walk in the city’s 44th annual LGBTQ Pride parade. This year’s parade and festival marked the first in-person iteration of the yearly event held in two years due to COVID-19.
DOE backs Rice physicists’ collaboration
June 27, 2022
Rice nuclear physicists win a Department of Energy grant to research the fundamental properties of matter in extreme conditions.
Baker Institute hosts gun safety symposium
June 27, 2022
The Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a gun safety symposium June 21 featuring health care and policy experts as well as elected officials.
An Owl’s-eye view of the Higgs boson at 10
June 27, 2022
Anniversary finds Rice physicists pushing forward as Large Hadron Collider reboots
US needs more foreign workers to solve labor crisis, says Baker Institute expert
June 27, 2022
Allowing more legal immigration and creating a workable solution for the millions of people living in the United States illegally is the only way to effectively address the nation’s worsening labor shortage, according to a report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Embryo and embryoid research state regulations are morally inconsistent, say Baker Institute experts
June 27, 2022
State policies on human embryo and embryoid research are morally inconsistent, according to a paper by Kirstin Matthews and Daniel Moralí published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, which reviewed all applicable federal and state laws.
Rice experts available to discuss Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade
June 24, 2022
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade’s federal abortion protections, Rice University experts are available to discuss what comes next.
Jing Zhou named Rice Business’ deputy dean of academic affairs
June 23, 2022
Jing Zhou, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Psychology at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, has been appointed deputy dean of academic affairs for the business school effective July 1.
Boron nitride nanotube fibers get real
June 23, 2022
Rice scientists create the first boron nitride nanotube fibers using the custom wet-spinning process they developed to make carbon nanotube fibers.