Rice Business student opens smoothie, acai shop in downtown Houston
A new concept shop in downtown Houston features healthy smoothies, acai bowls, parfaits and more — and it’s owned and operated by a Rice sophomore.
The Rice community celebrated the life and legacy of longtime political science professor Bob Stein and announced Fund for Social Policy Research. ...
Recent research from Rice and Houston Methodist shows how data-driven methods can sharpen doctors’ decisions for patients with aortic regurgitation, a...
Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week begins Sept. 15 and exemplifies how Houston is developing and scaling real solutions for the challenge of meet...
A project led by Rice and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research will build a new and improved version of the C...
Rice scientists have developed a new drug delivery platform that could make it easier for patients to take their medications and may even boost drug e...
“It’s a fresh perspective on a concept that has been around for a long time,” said curator Frauke Josenhans. ...
Members of the Jewish student community at Rice gathered recently at the Chabad Jewish Student Center for sushi and socializing to kick off the fall s...
At Rice Business, the Center for Customer-Based Execution and Strategy — better known as C-CUBES — helps scholars excel in rigorous, peer-reviewed res...
As workplaces continue to grow more diverse and dynamic, many workers are thinking more deeply about how to stay true to their spiritual values while ...
The Shepherd School will open its 2025-26 season with two concerts led by its new distinguished resident director of orchestras, Emmy Award-winning an...
When Frank Abell walked into the Woodson Research Center at Rice’s Fondren Library this summer, he wasn’t just stepping into an archive — he was stepp...
Inflation-adjusted CEO pay in nonprofit hospitals increased from roughly $1 million to $1.3 million between 2012 and 2019, and the greatest pay increa...
James F. Young, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, dies at 81
James F. Young, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at Rice, died May 18 in Hawaii. He was 81.
This year’s Summer Jam welcomed more than 1,900 people as they explored the Moody’s exhibitions “Figurative Histories” and “Collective Memories.”
AI tools aren’t a creativity machine on their own, Rice expert says
Can generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that create text, images and other content truly enhance employee creativity? A new paper published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and co-authored by Jing Zhou, Rice’s Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management, finds that generative AI doesn’t enhance creativity equally for everyone. Instead, its impact depends on how well people manage their own thinking while using it.
Internships and impact: How Rice students are shaping the world
Across the country and globe, Rice students are seizing hands-on roles with real stakes by interning in fields as diverse as offshore energy, arts education, global sports marketing and refugee housing.
HISD student data shows decline in alcohol use, increase in illicit drugs
Recent data shows that substance use of alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana, is declining among students in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) – yet there's still concern around the use of other or illicit drugs, according to a new paper from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice SSPEED Center’s FIRST system provides critical flood warnings in real time
In the aftermath of the devastating July 2025 floods in the Texas Hill Country, the need for reliable, real-time flood warning systems has never been more urgent.
Rice mourns loss of Bob Stein, renowned political scientist and civic leader
Robert “Bob” M. Stein, the influential political scientist who shaped civic life at Rice and across Texas, died after a brief battle with cancer.
From pool to coastline: Rice alum leads nationwide ocean safety campaign with student-athletes
When Rice alumnus and former swimmer Bruckner Chase ’90 first dove into open-water swimming, he couldn’t have imagined it would one day bring him back to campus — not as an athlete but as the driving force behind a national ocean safety campaign now poised to reach millions.
Romanticism in real time: Rice students take on ruins, race, revolution in Paris
Held over three weeks this summer, the class was grounded in literature, philosophy and art history but used Paris itself as the primary teaching tool.