President Reginald DesRoches welcomed hundreds of Rice University staff members to a morning breakfast and recognition ceremony April 23 at Tudor Fiel...
Rice honored exceptional faculty, staff and students for their dedication to teaching, mentoring and service at the annual University Awards Ceremony ...
Rice University recognized six outstanding staff members with the 2025 Staff Excellence Award during the annual staff appreciation event April 23, cel...
Rice will welcome Robert Langer, one of the world’s most influential biotechnology innovators, for a keynote address as part of its President’s Lectur...
Victoria Langlais, senior assistant dean of human resources and administration in Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing, was name...
Torn between a conservatory and a university experience, Sophie Urban said she chose Rice for the “best of both worlds”: world-class musical training ...
Rice Architecture students embarked on a "life-altering" trip to China as part of a course project where they learned from world-renowned architects a...
A cohort of Rice University undergraduates boarded a bus bound for Alabama — not for vacation, but for a deeper understanding of America’s legacy of r...
A report from Rice’s Kinder Institute highlights critical gaps in banking access, retirement savings and financial literacy....
Rice professors Karen Lozano and Eduardo Salas have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious ...
Student engineering teams at Rice demonstrated how hands-on design can drive real-world impact at the 2025 Huff Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen Show...
For Thiago Pinheiro dos Santos, a doctoral candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Brazil, research is a way to drive positive, meanin...
Incoming Rice freshmen RISE to the call
August 2, 2024
Incoming freshmen interested in exploring their burgeoning curiosity in higher education were welcomed to Rice this summer with RISE, an acronym standing for responsibility, inclusion and student empowerment, which familiarizes them with both the campus and Houston.
Angel Martí elected fellow of the American Chemical Society
August 1, 2024
Rice’s Angel Martí has been elected a fellow of the American Chemical Society, one of his discipline’s highest honors.
Rice, DOE labs tackle knowledge gap in materials science research
August 1, 2024
Rice materials scientist Lane Martin and collaborators shed light on mesoscale structures in high-tech material with potential use in next-generation electronics, lasers and sensors.
Rice welcomes Charles Murphy as executive director of admission
July 31, 2024
Rice’s Office of Admission is bolstering its recruitment and admission efforts by hiring Charles Murphy as executive director of admission. He will start Aug. 1.
Rice’s Sylvia Dee working to improve projections of extreme droughts, floods
July 31, 2024
Rice climate scientist Sylvia Dee has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the agency’s most prestigious early career honor.
Rice alums reflect on Olympic experiences: Lennie Waite
July 30, 2024
Lennie Waite, an Olympian and former Rice track and field star, talks about her experiences during the 2016 Olympics.
Students find inspiration at Tapia STEM Camps
July 30, 2024
The Tapia STEM Camps, founded by and named after Richard Tapia, aims to encourage students from underrepresented communities to pursue STEM careers.
July 30, 2024
In the minutes before the Orchestre National de France prepared to play Edith Piaf’s “L’Hymne à l’Amour” to close out the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, music director Cristian Măcelaru had a moment of confusion.
Breaking MAD: Generative AI could break the internet
July 30, 2024
Rice researchers have found that training successive generations of generative artificial intelligence models on synthetic data gives rise to self-consuming feedback loops.
Rice math camps prepare high school students to stand out in their upcoming math courses
July 29, 2024
Local students are learning math and having fun while doing so at the Rice University School Mathematics Project Preparing for Success programs.