Rice celebrated a major step in its translational research efforts May 5 with the official launch of RBL LLC. Held at the Texas Medical Center’s Helix...
Rice's Gang Bao has been selected to receive the Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award from the American Society for Mechanical Engineers for his sustai...
From celebrating campus creativity to elevating academic research, two student-led publications are giving undergraduates a platform to lead, edit and...
Rice experts available to discuss historic personalized gene editing breakthrough. ...
Experts from Rice are available to speak with the media about hurricane and storm-related topics....
Rice Education, part of Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, hosted a reception May 10 at the Anderson-Clarke Center to honor gra...
It’s not every year that commencement features school deans wearing two hats — as academic leaders and as proud parents. Rice celebrated a rare and he...
The inaugural cohort of Rice’s RISE (Responsibility, Inclusion and Student Empowerment) program received a commemorative stole to wear at commencement...
Rice welcomed renowned biomedical engineer and entrepreneur Robert Langer to campus for the President’s Lecture Series....
Rice’s Campus Services and Sustainability recently was recognized by Keep Texas Beautiful with its Beautify Texas Award in the Outstanding Program of ...
While breastfeeding offers numerous benefits for both mother and baby, one challenge has persisted: It’s nearly impossible to know how much milk a bab...
A team of Rice engineers has developed a system that could transform desalination practices, making the process more adaptable, resilient and cheaper....
The Ion awarded $1.4M to launch Aerospace Innovation Hub
October 8, 2020
HOUSTON – (Oct. 8, 2020) – The Ion has been awarded $1.4 million in federal funding for a partnership with NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) and DivInc to create its Aerospace Innovation Hub (ASCI-Hub) – which will support and develop regional minority business enterprises (MBEs) that address aerospace-related challenges.
Seesaws offer playful social distancing on campus
October 8, 2020
Rice Architecture students built 'Twelve Feet Apart' to encourage safe outdoor activities.
New book from Rice psychologist offers guide to creating successful teams
October 7, 2020
What makes a team effective? A new book from a Rice University psychologist examines that question and identifies ways leaders can foster successful organizations.
New Nobel laureate has Rice on resume
October 6, 2020
Mathematician Sir Roger Penrose is now a Nobel laureate, but once upon a time, he was Rice's Edgar Odell Lovett Professor of Mathematics.
There’s a reason bacteria stay in shape
October 6, 2020
A primal mechanism in bacteria that keeps them in their personal Goldilocks zones -- that is, just right -- appears to depend on two random means of regulation, growth and division, that cancel each other out. The same mechanism may give researchers a new perspective on disease, including cancer.
Earth grows fine gems in minutes
October 6, 2020
Aquamarine, emerald, garnet, zircon and topaz are but a few of the crystalline minerals found mostly in pegmatites, veinlike formations that commonly contain both large crystals and hard-to-find elements like tantalum and niobium. Another common find is lithium, a vital component of electric car batteries.
Rice Public Art transforms temporary classrooms into public art destinations
October 6, 2020
HOUSTON – (Oct. 6, 2020) – The tent-like structures serving as temporary classroom spaces at Rice University during the pandemic could have been left as they were built: tall, steel-framed, silvery-white facilities tucked behind a row of live oak trees near Hanszen College at the corner of College Way and Alumni Drive.
People, papers and presentations October 5, 2020
October 5, 2020
Rice alumnae Elisa Arango, Susannah Dittmar, Lauren Payne and Sanika Rane are finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for their Universally Friendly Obturator, a customizable device developed at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen that simplifies radiation therapy for patients with cervical cancer.
Deep learning gives drug design a boost
October 5, 2020
A computational tool created at Rice University may help pharmaceutical companies expand their ability to investigate the safety of drugs.
Gemini South's high-def version of 'A Star is Born'
October 5, 2020
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is still more than a year from launching, but the Gemini South telescope in Chile has provided astronomers from Rice University and Dublin City University a glimpse of what the orbiting observatory should deliver.