Rice announces plans to be carbon neutral by 2030
Rice President David Leebron and Provost Reginald DesRoches outlined the efforts in a message to the university community Feb. 11.
In the U.S. alone, more than 60 million women of reproductive age have used contraceptives according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Researchers have developed a mathematical model that enhances our understanding of ovarian aging and the timing of menopause....
Rice alumnus Abidemi Babatunde Babalola ’11 ’15 has been named a recipient of the 2025 Dan David Prize, one of the world’s largest history awards....
Researchers at Rice and collaborators have developed a wireless network of miniature bioelectric implants that could transform treatment for heart fai...
The 83,000-square-foot facility designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro will serve as a hub for visual arts, performance, interdisciplinary collaboration...
August is designated as National Emergency Management Awareness Month. To recognize the impact Rice’s four-member emergency management team makes on c...
Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, ranked the world’s No. 1 university-based think tank, today announced its fall 2025 lineup of public events....
Rice has been recognized among the nation’s best colleges this week — coinciding with the beginning of its fall semester — ranking No. 10 on Niche’s 2...
Seven Rice graduates were named recipients of the Fulbright scholarship through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program this year, receiving funds to study...
Rice experts say much of the region’s flood risk still sits outside federally mapped zones. ...
A new study by Rice researchers explores large language models as a tool for streamlining responsible citation practices....
The Rice Owls women’s volleyball team is scheduled to open its home slate this weekend with the Rice Invitational at Tudor Fieldhouse, highlighted by ...
Puppetry design course challenges students to explore their creative boundaries
“Never in a million years did I think I’d be designing and making a puppet”
Rice to host international conference on scholarship of the paranormal March 3-6
“Opening the Archives of the Impossible” will also showcase collections housed in university library
Rice Shepherd School alumna picks up first Oscar nomination
Germaine Franco is going for gold — a gold-plated Oscar, that is.
Physicists find evidence of new quantum phase
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
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
Rice University engineer, OpenStax founder Richard Baraniuk is named a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Clearly, this heart beats strong
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
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
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.