Rice to welcome four new trustees
Rice University will begin the next academic year with four new Board of Trustee members. Asuka Nakahara, Jeremy Thigpen, Claudia Gee Vassar and Lori Whitten will serve four-year terms beginning July 1.
It is with great excitement that I welcome you back to Rice for the start of another academic year. Our campus has come alive once again with energy, ...
Rice Vice President and Director of Athletics Tommy McClelland announced on Monday that the Owls will partner with Nike as the official outfitter of R...
Rice’s Martí, Sarlah, Wang honored with national American Chemical Society awards....
Rice marked a historic milestone this month as it welcomed the largest incoming class in its history — 1,336 new Owls, including 63 transfer students....
U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (R-Woodville) will explore critical topics in U.S. science and innovation policy to ensure America remains the global leader in ...
Rice’s Kinder Institute provides insight into how Houstonians view deportation and related policies....
Members of the Rice community gathered to celebrate Paul Padley....
The honors reflect both the technical ambition of “SPILL” and the artistry of its creative team. ...
Rice scientists have discovered that tiny creases in two-dimensional materials can control electrons’ spin with record precision, opening the path to ...
Rice’s Office of Technology Transfer has entered into a subscription agreement with Intel Corporation which will enable the global technology leader t...
Just like incoming freshmen are getting to know the Rice campus during O-Week, newly hired faculty spent two days in an orientation of their own befor...
A team of materials scientists at Rice has developed a new way to grow ultrathin semiconductors directly onto electronic components....
An expert panel will discuss what’s driving prices at the pump in a May 26 webinar from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice names James Hurley assistant vice president of alumni relations
James Hurley will join Rice’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) as its assistant vice president of alumni relations. He will assume his new role Aug. 1.
Rice bioengineers are shining light on bacterial stress
Rice bioengineers are ready to shine a lot of light on bacteria’s genetic response to stress.
People, papers and presentations for May 23, 2022
Alexander Dessler, an emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, has published a personal history of the early days of Rice’s Space Science Department in the journal Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists.
CPRIT grants entice three cancer researchers to Rice
Rice University recruits three professors to bolster cancer research with grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Spinning is key for line-dancing electrons in iron selenide
Quantum physicists at Rice have helped answer an important question at the forefront of research into superconductivity.
Getting ourselves back to the garden
A prairie garden at Rice University demonstrates the benefits of replacing manicured lawns with resilient plants and grasses that need little maintenance and help protect the environment.
The Baker Institute’s Center for the Middle East will henceforth be known as the Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East in recognition of Ambassador Djerejian’s role as founding director of the Baker Institute and of his “extraordinary leadership and deeply impactful foreign service career.“
DAP array casts a wide net to fix mutations
Rice engineers introduce DAP, a streamlined CRISPR-based technology that can perform many genome edits at once to address polygenic diseases caused by more than one glitch.