

Rithika Iyengar, a rising senior at Rice, has been named a 2025 Key into Public Service Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society....

Rice Athletics hosted its annual Night of Flight celebration and fundraiser May 1, bringing together alumni, student-athletes, supporters, family and ...

Two members of the Rice community, one current student and one alumna, are among the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners recently announced, recognized for th...

Volker Rudolf, a professor of biosciences at Rice, is investigating just how powerful seasonal rhythms, known as phenologies, can be....

Freshman Daniel Zou and junior Lukas Boandl are in the top 15 of the NCAA Bremerton Regional after one round....

J. D. McCracken scattered three hits over seven innings and Michael Zito drove in three runs as Rice downed Wichita State 9-3 to capture the weekend s...

Rice’s Matteo Pasquali has been elected a fellow of The Society of Rheology (SoR)....

Rice scientist and engineer Naomi Halas was awarded the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry May 1 at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia....

Faculty and students gathered for the latest edition of Research Relays, an event series that spotlighted the expansive, interdisciplinary work of CAA...

Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders capped off the 2024-25 academic year with its annual Leadership Celebration April 24 in Ray Courtyard, honoring...

Findings from the 2025 Kinder Houston Area Survey, the nation’s longest-running metropolitan study of its kind, will be released May 19. ...

Rice conferred more than 250 doctoral degrees during its 112th commencement May 10 at Tudor Fieldhouse. Doctoral candidates along with friends, family...

National Academies Gulf Scholars Program launches at Rice
A new National Academies Gulf Research Program will expand the opportunities Rice students have to study and impact the most pressing environmental, health, energy and infrastructure challenges in the Gulf of Mexico region.

Congressman Crenshaw visits campus
Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas visited Rice University Oct. 6 to speak with the campus community about the latest happenings in Washington, D.C., and answer questions.
New Gerardo Rosales mural will debut as inaugural work on Moody Project Wall
The Venezuelan artist and educator worked with Rice students to illustrate the legend of María Lionza

Working mothers who feel in control of schedule more likely to embrace healthy habits
A present-focused mindset made mothers more likely to maintain a feeling of control as demands on their time increased.

Rice to host James Heckman for RISE Nobel Laureate Lecture Series
Heckman is best known for his work on how early childhood development impacts health, economic and social outcomes.

People, papers and presentations for Oct. 11, 2021
People, papers and presentations for Oct. 11, 2021

Former ambassadors to discuss agreements that shape US-Mexico relationship at Baker Institute event
Former ambassadors Christopher Landau and Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández and law professor Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez will discuss how the United States and Mexico maintain their relationship through political cycles — and how both formal and informal agreements help and hinder that relationship — in an Oct. 13 webinar.

Best yet to come for stellar jet researchers
New findings about stellar jets also provide a path forward for astronomers awaiting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines and boosters available to Rice community
Rice has partnered with the Houston Health Department to provide first and second doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to members of the university community and their families, and booster shots for those who are eligible as defined by the CDC and previously received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

Consumers see diverse organizations as moral ones, study shows
When people see diversity in a corporate team, they’re more likely to believe the team behaves in a moral fashion, according to research conducted by Ajay Kalra, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Marketing at the Jones Graduate School of Business, and Uzma Khan, associate professor of marketing at the University of Miami Herbert Business School. Their work has just been published in a paper entitled "It's Good to Be Different: How Diversity Impacts Judgments of Moral Behavior."