Persona AI, the Houston-based humanoid robotics startup that recently closed $25 million in pre-seed funding, is significantly expanding its operation...
OwlSpark, Rice’s startup and small business accelerator for Rice-affiliated ventures, brings together 11 companies in the program’s 13th year who repr...
A team of researchers from Rice, Carnegie Mellon University and other leading global institutions has outlined a bold new roadmap for harnessing heter...
Rice University experts are available to discuss Kosmos 482....
Rice's Moshe Vardi was honored with the Defender of Courage Award at the Holocaust Remembrance Association’s Upstanders Arise gala at the George Theat...
Christopher Johns-Krull , professor of physics and astronomy, will serve as interim executive vice president for research, beginning July 1....
Rice University students Sara Denison and Khoi Nguyen have been named this year’s recipients of the Sallyport Award, presented annually at commencemen...
Rice will congratulate almost 3,000 students who have dutifully earned their college diplomas during commencement weekend May 9-10. For more informati...
Experts from Rice spoke about how AI is reshaping society, industry and human behavior....
Everywhere you turned at the final showcase for Design of Mechatronic Systems, something moved, danced, blinked or spun....
More than 100 people turned out for a screening of a documentary that examines the alarming rise of antisemitism and radicalization on college campuse...
Rice will break ground on the Moody Center Complex for Student Life at 3 p.m. May 8, marking a transformative moment for the university’s commitment t...
People, papers and presentations for Feb. 14, 2022
February 14, 2022
John Fierst, assistant director of academic advising, received the 2022 Texas Association of Advisors for the Health Professions Advisor of the Year Award at the group's recent annual conference in San Antonio.
Rice announces plans to be carbon neutral by 2030
February 11, 2022
Rice President David Leebron and Provost Reginald DesRoches outlined the efforts in a message to the university community Feb. 11.
Puppetry design course challenges students to explore their creative boundaries
February 10, 2022
“Never in a million years did I think I’d be designing and making a puppet”
Rice to host international conference on scholarship of the paranormal March 3-6
February 10, 2022
“Opening the Archives of the Impossible” will also showcase collections housed in university library
Rice Shepherd School alumna picks up first Oscar nomination
February 10, 2022
Germaine Franco is going for gold — a gold-plated Oscar, that is.
Physicists find evidence of new quantum phase
February 10, 2022
Rice physicists collaborated on the discovery of a quantum phase that appears to break time-reversal symmetry.
OpenStax, state set resource creation event for educators
February 10, 2022
OpenStax, Rice University’s educational technology initiative, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) will host a free, virtual event for Texas educators to create and revise open educational resources (OER) Feb. 17 and 18.
Richard Baraniuk named to National Academy of Engineering
February 10, 2022
Rice University engineer, OpenStax founder Richard Baraniuk is named a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Clearly, this heart beats strong
February 9, 2022
In time for Valentine’s Day, engineers at Rice University and Waseda University provide a realistic view of what happens inside a beating heart.
Moody Foundation endows two athletics funds
February 9, 2022
Rice Athletics has announced the creation of a pair of endowed funds totaling $5 million to enhance and support its baseball and men’s and women’s track and cross-country programs.