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...
For more than a decade, Rice’s Frederi Viens has been studying Lake Chad, a vast freshwater lake in west-central Africa that borders Nigeria, Niger, C...
The Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the University of Houston Energy Transition Institute are launching a st...
A delegation of researchers from Rice’s WaTER Institute traveled to Argentina’s Neuquén province this month to help address a pressing question facing...
Rice’s open enrollment period for employee benefit plans will run from April 3-17. To give employees a way to better explore their benefits options, t...
Rice's Office of Sustainability invites the campus community to join the third annual Earth Month Kick-Off Festival from 12:30-3:30 p.m. April 1 at th...
Rice continues to strengthen its position as a leader in innovation, rising to No. 66 in the 2025 Top 100 U.S. Universities List for utility patents, ...
Rice once again found itself at the center of the college basketball world, serving as the official host institution for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Sou...
For Rice senior Leo Marek, engineering is about finding the small changes that make big systems run better....
The Rice women's track and field team had a tremendous weekend in front of their home crowd at the 43rd annual Victor Lopez Classic at the Wendel D. L...
The Rice men's track and field team shined on their home track, with many season bests and event titles at the 43rd annual Victor Lopez Classic at the...
Garet Boehm, Cole Green and Colin Robson each hit home runs, including Boehm's first career grand slam, as Rice won the series from Florida Atlantic, ...
Miles joins Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies.
HOUSTON – (Feb. 17, 2020) – Steven Miles, an attorney who has spent 35 years focusing on natural gas, electric power and renewable energy, has been named a nonresident fellow in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, the institute announced today.
Good deeds wanted at annual Mitzvah Marathon
To do a mitzvah is to do a good deed. And that’s exactly what you’ll be able to do at the Mitzvah Marathon.
Rankings roundup: Rice shines nationally and internationally
Rice sits near the top of university rankings recently released by Times Higher Education (THE), the Princeton Review and a number of other outlets that rate higher education institutions.
Rice Media Center celebrates 50 years of groundbreaking creativity with weeks of festivities
Rare films, local photography and Rices unique creative spirit to be showcased Feb. 21–March 14.
Algae team rosters could help ID 'super corals'
U.S. and Australian researchers have found a potential tool for identifying stress-tolerant "super corals." In experiments that simulated climate change stress, researchers found corals that best survived had symbiotic algae communities with similar features.
A crowd of contenders at spring career and internship expo
Hundreds of Rice students headed to the Gibbs Recreation and Wellness Center Feb.
Africayé, the annual cultural centerpiece of Black History Month at Rice, packed the Grand Hall in the Rice Memorial Center Feb. 9 with fashion shows, comedy skits, dance performances and much more.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series coming to a close with Gaines, Miller
New York-based writer and artist Malik Gaines gave a lecture Feb. 7 at the Rice Media Center to an auditorium of Rice students, faculty and staff who were also treated to a screening of one of Gaines’ recent short films.
Electricity’s past and future in America
As Americans integrate renewable energy resources into the nation’s power supply, a new research paper from the Baker Institute for Public Policy reviews how the country’s electrical system developed and says that an understanding of its past can offer insights about its future.
Black Male Leadership Initiative hosts cross-campus luncheon at Cohen House
Undergraduates and grad students, faculty and staff — all rubbed shoulders at the annual Special Gathering of Men Feb. 7 in Esther’s Room at Cohen House.
