An international team of scientists led by Rice's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in...
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...
Road map for recovery and resilience: New dashboard outlines post-disaster resources
March 16, 2022
A new dashboard developed by Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research with support from Chevron offers a road map for people, organizations and governments in the Houston area who need help after disaster strikes.
Models for molecules show unexpected physics
March 15, 2022
Rice engineers discover unusual properties in magnetized colloids that surprisingly adhere to the physics described by Kelvin’s equation, which models the thermodynamics of molecular systems.
Humanities hosts daylong visit for high schoolers hoping to study the environment
March 14, 2022
These students picked Rice for a reason
Ambitious ‘Archives of the Impossible’ conference convenes international audience
March 14, 2022
“We are here for just one little thing: to change reality itself.”
Rice recognized as a Bicycle Friendly University
March 14, 2022
The League of American Bicyclists has named Rice a Bicycle Friendly University with Silver status, up from Bronze four years ago.
COVID-19 variants can’t hide from Variabel
March 14, 2022
Rice computer scientists introduce Variabel, which uses sequencing data to identify “low-frequency variants” of SARS-CoV-2 in public data sets. The program has also been tested on data from patients with Ebola and norovirus.
People, papers and presentations for March 14, 2022
March 14, 2022
Freshman Josie Taylor (first team) and sophomore Tara Simpson-Sullivan (second team) earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-American honors with their performances at last week’s NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Alabama.
Rice, Houston Methodist launch Center for Human Performance
March 14, 2022
Rice and Houston Methodist are creating a center to advance research and education in human performance.
March 10, 2022
Two-thirds of Muslims, half of Jews and more than a third of evangelical Protestant Christians experience workplace discrimination, albeit in different ways, according to a new study from Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program (RPLP).
Rice hoops teams win C-USA Tournament openers before bowing out
March 10, 2022
The Rice men's and women's basketball teams advanced to the quarterfinals of the Conference USA Tournament with double-digit victories in Frisco, Texas, before being eliminated.