Rice’s Department of Chemistry will soon welcome Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede....
Rice University has appointed three distinguished alumni to its board of trustees....
Researchers at Rice and collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Technology, Sydney report the first demonstration of low ...
Rice University is mourning the passing of E. William “Bill” Barnett ’55, an esteemed alumnus, former chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees and a tra...
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...
February 14, 2022
Trivia-lovers the world over got to know Brown College senior Jasmine Manansala last week when she competed in the “Jeopardy!” National College Championship Feb. 8.
Kate Shepherd’s first permanent wall painting on public view installed at Rice
February 14, 2022
The piece joins the university’s growing collection of public art
A GREAT arts walk across campus
February 14, 2022
“It is amazing to see how Rice graduate international students give back to our local community”
Bacterial ‘bully’ could improve food production
February 14, 2022
Lactic acid bacteria that thrive in many organisms, including humans, employ a hybrid metabolism that combines respiration and fermentation to give it an advantage over competitors. Researchers say the discovery could lead to enhanced techniques for food and chemical production.
Kolditz, director of Rice's Doerr Institute, announces departure
February 14, 2022
Tom Kolditz, director of Rice University's Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders, has announced his departure from Rice effective June 30, 2022. He will remain with the institute as a member of its external advisory board.
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.