Flashing creates hard-to-get 2D boron nitride
Rice University chemists use their flash Joule heating process to synthesize 2D flakes of boron nitride and boron carbon nitride, highly valued for lending thermal and chemical stability to compounds.
Rice scientists have created a new type of 2D semiconductor that comes closer than ever to a “perfect” crystal....
Rice President Reginald DesRoches and Kelly Fox, executive vice president for operations, finance and support, greeted employees who have opted to par...
A new Rice study offers one of the first national measures of a viewpoint called “racial realism” and considers how it fits into the broader spectrum ...
Venture capitalist John Doerr joined Doerr Institute for New Leaders’ director Bernie Banks at Rice March 26 for a wide-ranging conversation on leader...
Rep. Brian Babin (R-Woodville), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, visited Rice March 20 with a delegation of congressi...
Paul Smith's bases-loaded, two-out walk in the bottom of the 10th gave Rice a 3-2 win over UTSA in the series opener between the schools at Reckling P...
“Gender and sexuality studies is social theory made accessible,” said Lora Wildenthal, the John Antony Weir Professor of History and director of Rice’...
The global journeys of Rice University students were on display March 27 as the Office of Study Abroad hosted the 2026 Study Abroad Photo Contest Exhi...
“I feel really grateful for the opportunities that I’ve had now that I am here," said senior Michael Garcia....
The Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies welcomed nonprofit leaders from acros...
The Olivier Award-nominated play traces the rise and fall of the Houston-based energy trading giant, translating complex financial systems into a fast...
New consumable hemp rules from the Texas Department of State Health Services are officially in effect, and the biggest change comes down to how THC is...
Hidden genes may be tapped for new antibiotics
Rice University bioscientists learn to trigger “silent” gene clusters in bacteria that could be rich sources of new antibiotic candidates.
Interracial contact may not reduce racism, says report
Racial apathy and the belief that Black people no longer experience prejudice in today’s world represent the “new racism,” according to Tony Brown, professor of sociology at Rice University and lead author of the study, “Changes in Racial Apathy Among White Young Adults: A Five-Year National Panel Study,” published in the journal Sociological Inquiry.
Ten new professors join Rice Business
The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University has added ten faculty members with expertise ranging from management to marketing. It’s a record number of new tenured and tenure-track professors for the school.
Padley named vice president for IT, chief information officer
Paul Padley, a professor of physics and astronomy and director of Rice’s Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, has been named the university’s vice president for information technology and chief information officer. Padley assumed the position on an interim basis last summer when Klara Jelinkova stepped down from the post.
New issue of Rice Magazine explores research, scholarship
The Summer 2022 issue of Rice Magazine highlights a sample of the dynamic, complex and ambitious scholarship underway in academic disciplines across campus.
Rice scholars, dignitaries meet with Fulbright-feted educators ahead of Argentina voyage
The 2022 Fulbright-Hays Delegation to Argentina spent July 27-29 at Rice for a pre-departure orientation on all things Argentinian. The 16 educators from across America will spend July in the South American nation.
Leebron accepts posts at Columbia, Harvard
Former President David Leebron will spend much of the coming year at the two institutions other than Rice that have played the most important roles in his education and career.
The DesRoches era begins as Rice’s eighth president takes office
Reginald DesRoches started his first day as Rice University’s newest president the same way he starts most Fridays: with a run around campus, on this particular dewey Houston morning, accompanied by his wife Paula and daughter Shelby, a Rice senior. Later, just as he has during his term as provost, he strolled into Allen Center. But on this Friday, he walked in as President DesRoches.
Nobel laureate, beloved Rice professor Robert Curl dead at 88
Nobel Prize-winning chemist and beloved Rice University Professor Robert Curl died July 3 at age 88.