RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio designed to rapidly build companies based on lifesaving medical technologies, today announced th...
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...
‘Soundwaves’ brings experimental art and music to the Moody
January 31, 2022
This spring’s group show features artists who are deeply engaged with sounds
Owls baseball team welcomes supporters for annual Fan Fest
January 31, 2022
The Rice baseball team welcomed supporters of all ages to Reckling Park Jan. 29 for its annual Fan Fest.
Islamic studies scholar Doostdar contemplates God and Satan in modern Shi’i thought
January 31, 2022
University of Chicago professor to deliver Feb. 17 Kazimi Lecture
Rice Architecture lecture series, ‘Building Identities,’ continues
January 31, 2022
Rice Architecture continues its “Building Identities” theme in this spring’s lecture series, set to begin Feb. 2.
Nathan Dautenhahn wins CAREER Award
January 31, 2022
Rice University computer scientist Nathan Dautenhahn wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to pursue simplified, automated security for sophisticated software.
Machine learning fine-tunes flash graphene
January 31, 2022
Rice University scientists are using machine learning techniques to streamline the process of synthesizing graphene from waste through flash Joule heating.
Access to gig economy may spur small business creation, study finds
January 31, 2022
Access to the gig economy may help facilitate the creation of new businesses, according to a new study. The gig (or short-term job) market is often more transitory than the traditional freelancing market. The flexibility and low barrier to entry of these jobs gives would-be entrepreneurs fallback opportunities that reduce their financial risk, argues Yael Hochberg, professor in entrepreneurship and finance at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business.
Pastors serve as primary source of mental health care for Black, Latino congregants
January 31, 2022
A new study of Black and Latino Christians found they often turn to their pastors for mental health care or information on mental health resources, even when those clergy feel ill-equipped to offer help or advice.
People, papers and presentations for Jan. 31, 2022
January 31, 2022
Ashley Leeds, the Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Political Science and department chair, will become co-editor-in-chief of the journal International Organization on July 1.
January 28, 2022
Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano ’08, fresh off her Houston Grand Opera debut as Mother Marie in Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” found herself back on a familiar stage Jan. 21 to speak with some of the Shepherd School of Music's aspiring opera stars.