

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 welcomed five distinguished alumni back to campus June 13 for the university’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration. The event, featuring a panel ...

A powerful work of public art that captured global attention when it first appeared on the facade of the Jerusalem Tolerance Museum is now making hist...

Housed within the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library, the archives have amassed more than a million documents, recordings and files related to...

Rice researchers and collaborators have developed a new cavity design that selectively enhances the quantum vacuum fluctuations of circularly polarize...

The university joined the Greater Houston Partnership in hosting the first city booth at the global event, which drew more than 180,000 attendees from...

The newly released 2025 State of Housing report from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, shows rising home prices, surging insurance premiums ...

RBL LLC announced the appointment of James Watson to its board of directors....

In a milestone moment for science education and collaboration, Rice hosted its first DUNE-TECH (DUNE Training ExperienCe Hub) camp this June, drawing ...

The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) at Rice has unveiled the eight high-potential ventures selected for the third annual Lili...

A research team led by Rice has introduced an innovative strategy that uses converted enzymes to streamline synthetic pathways....

Double-walled nanotubes have electro-optical advantages
Rice theorists find that flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes could be highly useful for photovoltaic applications.

OpenStax surpasses $1 billion in textbook savings
Less than a decade after publishing its first free, openly licensed textbook, OpenStax — Rice’s educational technology initiative — has saved students $1.2 billion.

Sim shows how COVID virus infects cells
A simulation shows the complicated mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 virus may infect cells, leading to COVID-19.

Flu shots offered to Rice community on campus
Flu shots are now available on campus for members of the Rice community.

Historic Houston neighborhoods focus of study on small business

RUPD’s Citizens Police Academy open for enrollment

People, papers and presentations for Aug. 30, 2021

Rice ranked by Niche as one of nation’s top 10 universities
Rice University wins an “A+” grade and ranks as one of the nation’s top 10 universities in the latest ratings of American colleges compiled by Niche.

Scientists make bilayer borophene for the first time. The versatile 2D material shows promise for quantum electronics, energy storage and sensors.

Ethics survey shows a campus unafraid to speak up
A recent survey of Rice employees found that 99% of respondents were comfortable reporting ethical concerns to at least one resource on campus.