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...
NSF extends Physics of Living Systems network at Rice
September 27, 2021
The NSF awards nearly $3 million to the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics to continue its leadership role in the Physics of Living Systems graduate research network.
September 22, 2021
A loose-fitting mask may be doing you no favors if you’re around SARS-CoV-2.
Sex and the symbiont: Can algae hookups help corals survive?
September 22, 2021
Scientists have discovered that symbiotic single-celled algae that live inside of and feed corals can reproduce not only by mitosis, but also sexually. Encouraging sex in these algae can accelerate their evolution to produce strains better able to help reefs cope with climate change.
Moody Foundation grants $100 million to Rice University
September 22, 2021
The Moody Foundation has granted Rice $100 million to build a transformative new student center designed by one of the world’s premiere architects and to create endowments supporting student opportunity and success, both as part of the center and in other areas of the university.
With membership dwindling, Rice's Mariachi Luna Llena seeks new talent
September 21, 2021
Houston Astros fans in attendance at Minute Maid Park Saturday night were treated to more than just a ballgame.
Rice lands grant to improve time-release drugs
September 21, 2021
HOUSTON – (Sept. 21, 2021) – Time-released drugs are about to get a geometry lesson, thanks to bioengineers at Rice University.
Rice MBA program scores top 5 ranking for entrepreneurship
September 20, 2021
The Master of Business Administration program at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business is No. 22 in the United States in Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Business Schools MBA ranking for 2021 — and No. 5 for entrepreneurship.
People, papers and presentations for Sept. 20, 2021
September 20, 2021
Rice Space Institute Director David Alexander, a professor of physics and astronomy, has been named by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to the board of the Houston Spaceport Development Corporation.
September 20, 2021