The “Synergizing AI, Digital Health and the Built Environment" symposium addressed the ways AI and digital health tools can enhance the built environm...
A new study led by Rice's Christopher Tunnell and Dorian Amaral sees the first direct search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated...
Kathryn Lavender, associate vice president of the campus safety department, was recently celebrated for her 34 years of service at Rice, shortly befor...
In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitr...
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 mourns Mary Tobin '73, longtime English lecturer, volunteer
December 13, 2021
The longtime fixture and friend of the Rice community died Nov. 23.
Flutist Marianne Gedigian to join Rice's Shepherd School of Music
December 13, 2021
Marianne Gedigian, a seasoned international concert flutist and widely respected music educator, will join Rice University's Shepherd School of Music as professor of flute after the next academic year, starting July 1, 2023.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 13, 2021
December 13, 2021
Janet Covington, director of internal audit, has received the Member Excellence in Service Award from the Association of College and University Auditors.
Rice United Way Campaign hits 96% of $250,000 goal in week nine
December 10, 2021
Just over two months into the annual Rice United Way fundraising campaign, the effort has raised a total of $240,717, 96% of its $250,000 goal.
Rice’s Technology Development Fund backs faculty projects
December 10, 2021
Nine projects proposed by Rice researchers have been granted seed funding by Creative Ventures' Technology Development Fund.
Experts to discuss role of oil in global energy transitions
December 10, 2021
Oil’s role in the global energy transitions will be the focus of an upcoming virtual and in-person event from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
‘Super trees’ may help save Houston … and beyond
December 9, 2021
Rice statisticians are part of a study sharing strategies to identify “super trees” for urban areas that help mitigate pollution, flooding and heat.
Newest Rice alumni celebrated at winter commencement
December 9, 2021
August and December Rice graduates walk across the stage Dec. 7 in Tudor Fieldhouse.
Rice’s Doerr Institute expands CoachRICE program to serve other institutions
December 9, 2021
The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University is expanding its CoachRICE leadership coaching program, providing other institutions of higher education with training to improve how they develop students as high-potential leaders.
Leebron receives diversity award
December 9, 2021
President David Leebron was honored with the 2021 Diversity Champion Award from the Association of Chinese American Professionals.