As we head into the Memorial Day weekend, Rice and its Office of International Students and Scholars are closely monitoring the action taken by the U....
Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a leading mind in applied geophysics and Trustee Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice, has been awa...
Rice researchers have developed a simpler and more effective technique to make ultrapure diamond films for quantum and electronic applications....
Researchers from Rice and Northwestern University discover new 2D material, confirming decade-old prediction....
Rice experts at the Ken Kennedy Institute who taught an intensive boot camp for data science practitioners and technical managers are available to add...
The Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance recently gathered scholars representing nearly a dozen different nations at ...
This spring, 75 students from Lone Star College, San Jacinto Community College and Houston Community College met with Rice faculty, staff and graduate...
A team of Rice engineering students has designed and built a safer, low-cost propulsion module for small satellites....
From exhibitions that trace personal and cultural histories to community events and wellness programming, the Moody’s summer schedule offers more than...
As the world races to address the climate crisis, a coalition headquartered at Rice is taking a radically collaborative approach to one of the toughes...
A new study highlights the need to refine biodiversity forecasts to account for the sex-specific responses to Earth’s changing climate....
A festive crowd of alumni and friends gathered at the Post Oak Hotel in Houston to celebrate Rice’s most dedicated supporters at the Association of Ri...
Women's tennis earns at-large bid to NCAA Tournament
April 30, 2025
The Rice Owls women's tennis earned an at-large bid in the NCAA field of 64, earning the third seed in the College Station Regional.
Men's tennis heads to College Station Regional
April 30, 2025
The Rice Owls men's tennis earned a spot in the NCAA field of 64 for the second-straight year, earning the fourth seed in the College Station Regional.
April 30, 2025
Rice President Reginald DesRoches offered a compelling and in-depth account of the university’s future during a one-on-one interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Ian Wilhelm in Washington, D.C.
April 30, 2025
Rice’s César A. Uribe has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to advance the mathematical foundations of decentralized learning, a critical area for the future of artificial intelligence, data science and distributed systems.
Extreme price variation at Houston hospitals continues, expert says
April 30, 2025
Houston hospitals show significant pricing differences in their procedures, according to a new brief from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The research revisits the websites of the four largest Texas Medical Center (TMC) hospitals to assess whether they have followed federal hospital price transparency laws. The analysis focuses on the listed prices from Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center, Houston Methodist Hospital and Memorial Hermann-TMC.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Esther Jimenez ’25
April 29, 2025
Graduate Student Spotlight: Esther Jimenez ’25
Robert Maxfield to posthumously be awarded ARA’s Gold Medal at Laureates Awards
April 29, 2025
At the Association of Rice Alumni’s 2025 Laureates Awards ceremony May 8, the group will bestow its highest honor — the Gold Medal Award — to the late Robert Maxfield ’63, ’64.
Rice hosts author Suzanne Nossel for conversation on free speech and inclusion
April 29, 2025
Rice’s Office of Access and Institutional Excellence welcomed author and free speech advocate Suzanne Nossel to campus April 28 for a conversation on “Protecting Speech and Advancing Equality.”
April 29, 2025
Rice’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, inducted 21 new members.
April 29, 2025
Rice President Reginald DesRoches was recognized for his visionary leadership and lifelong commitment to education at the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of Greater Houston’s Scholarship Awards Dinner, held April 23 at the Briar Club. DesRoches received the organization’s highest honor — Outstanding Contribution to Education — joining a distinguished group of leaders celebrated for their dedication to scholarship and public service.