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....
OpenStax Institutional Partner Network grows to reach diverse student populations
August 18, 2020
HOUSTON – (Aug. 18, 2020) – OpenStax, Rice University’s openly licensed textbook publisher, welcomed a dozen new colleges and universities to its Institutional Partner Network that together serve the most diverse student populations the program has ever seen.
Heart attack damage reduced by shielded stem cells
August 18, 2020
Bioengineers and surgeons from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have shown in rodents that a four-week shielded stem cell treatment can reduce damage caused by a heart attack.
Classical Mask: Art History’s punny posters encourage mask wearing, social distancing
August 17, 2020
New health protocol notices in Herring Hall promote safety, smiles.
'Faces in the Pandemic' opens at Fondren
August 17, 2020
Rice's football season now set to begin Sept. 26
August 17, 2020
The start of the Rice football season has been pushed back to Sept. 26.
Rice remembers legendary Rabbi Samuel Karff, one of Houston’s 'Three Wise Men'
August 17, 2020
Rabbi Karff lectured at Rice for over 20 years and was influential in fundraising for its Jewish Studies program.
August 17, 2020
Facilities, Engineering & Planning staff have been hard at work creating and placing signs across the Rice campus in advance of the fall semester.
Rice administers over 4,000 COVID-19 tests in first half of August
August 17, 2020
Rice University has been ramping up COVID-19 testing in advance of students returning for O-Week and the start of in-person and online classes Aug. 24.
Where lions operate, grazers congregate … provided food is great
August 17, 2020
Meals are typically family affairs for zebras, gazelles, cape buffalo and other grazing species in the African Serengeti, but in one of the first studies of its kind, ecologists have found grazing species can be more willing to share meals in areas frequented by lions.
No limit yet for carbon nanotube fibers
August 17, 2020
Rice University researchers report advances in their quest to make the best carbon nanotube fibers for industry.