Rice researchers took a big picture approach to studying food webs across sub-Saharan Africa...
Rice senior Pankti Mehta is channeling her drive to improve how people access and experience health care by combining computer science with hands-on c...
“One of the reasons that we have this symposium in the community is because we want the community to feel like they’re also part of Rice,” university ...
Rice scientists have created a new type of 2D semiconductor that comes closer than ever to a “perfect” crystal....
Rice President Reginald DesRoches and Kelly Fox, executive vice president for operations, finance and support, greeted employees who have opted to par...
A new Rice study offers one of the first national measures of a viewpoint called “racial realism” and considers how it fits into the broader spectrum ...
Venture capitalist John Doerr joined Doerr Institute for New Leaders’ director Bernie Banks at Rice March 26 for a wide-ranging conversation on leader...
Rep. Brian Babin (R-Woodville), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, visited Rice March 20 with a delegation of congressi...
Paul Smith's bases-loaded, two-out walk in the bottom of the 10th gave Rice a 3-2 win over UTSA in the series opener between the schools at Reckling P...
“Gender and sexuality studies is social theory made accessible,” said Lora Wildenthal, the John Antony Weir Professor of History and director of Rice’...
The global journeys of Rice University students were on display March 27 as the Office of Study Abroad hosted the 2026 Study Abroad Photo Contest Exhi...
“I feel really grateful for the opportunities that I’ve had now that I am here," said senior Michael Garcia....
Rice U.’s Taiyun Chi wins NSF CAREER Award
Taiyun Chi, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to research the development of a high-performance neural interface and a noninvasive deep-brain-stimulation system.
During Black History Month, artists work with historians to tell story of slave trade
Daniel Domingues, associate professor of African history and co-manager of SlaveVoyages, joined forces with Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts Feb. 18 to host a workshop to help create a new visual identity for the award-winning online database of the global slave trade.
U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt visits Rice
On Feb. 13, U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt visited the Rice campus to meet with President Reginald DesRoches and members of the Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Energy Studies.
Rice joins neutrino megaproject. Engineering launches energy transition initiative. McHugh lands cancer research grant. Keck Foundation funds quantum research. West named Cottrell Scholar.
People, papers and presentations for Feb. 20, 2023
Mallesh Pai, the Lay Family Associate Professor in Rice’s Department of Economics, is a winner of the RAPSIG Best Pricing Paper Award with co-authors Karsten Hansen and Kanishka Misra for their publication, “Frontiers: Algorithmic Collusion: Supra-Competitive Prices via Independent Algorithms.”
Tapia to discuss book on importance of improving STEM education for minorities
Rice University’s Multicultural Community Relations department will host a book presentation for Richard Tapia’s “Losing The Precious Few: How America Fails to Educate Its Minorities in Science and Engineering” Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. in Anne and Charles Duncan Hall’s McMurtry Auditorium.
Owls avoid season-opening sweep with series-finale victory
The Rice Owls baseball team overcame an early 5-0 deficit to defeat the University of Louisiana at Lafayette 12-8 in Sunday’s series finale at Reckling Park.
Rice mourns professor emeritus and avid supporter Sam Davis
Sam H. Davis Jr. ’52 ’53, a professor emeritus of chemical engineering and former director of the Office of Continuing Studies, died on Christmas Day at age 92. A celebration of his life is tentatively planned for Saturday, March 25, at Rice’s Anderson-Clarke Center.
New Cherry Reading Series event to ‘demystify’ process of publishing first book
The Rice Department of English’s Cherry Reading Series will present “Breaking Out! The Untold Stories of Writing and Publishing a First Book,” featuring moderator Bryan Washington and panelist authors Allegra Hyde, Christopher Gonzalez and Jean Kyoung Frazier, at 7 p.m. Feb. 27.
Texas in position to lead hydrogen energy economy, new report says
Texas’ legacy energy economy and geology are ideal for developing a robust hydrogen market, which will play an important role in sustainability, but a successful energy transition also requires a shift in policy and market structure, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
