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...
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.
Rare earth elements await in waste
February 9, 2022
Rice University scientists applied their flash Joule heating process to coal fly ash and other toxic waste to safely extract rare earth elements essential to modern electronics and green technologies.
Anastasios Kyrillidis wins NSF CAREER Award
February 8, 2022
Rice computer scientist will explore the theory and design of non-convex optimization algorithms, which are increasingly important for machine learning.
Young alum shares power of poetry to promote critical dialog
February 7, 2022
Tim Harrison ’20 brought a powerful spoken-word performance to campus for a FWIS class
‘Hydras’ artwork inspired by Robinson Lab imagery
February 7, 2022
Conrad’s newest piece installed at BRC; opening reception Saturday
Grad students ask: Is this the end of English?
February 7, 2022
Alemán to give keynote at department’s annual graduate student conference