Rice Business Executive Education offers custom-made programs for companies that want to strengthen leadership, enhance culture or address specific ma...
June serves as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and to celebrate, Rice and many campus affiliates will host events to spread awareness about the LGBTQ+ community a...
Researchers at Rice have developed a soft robotic arm capable of performing complex tasks such as navigating around an obstacle or hitting a ball, gui...
Staff from every corner of campus came together June 3 to enjoy the annual Ice Cream Social hosted by Rice University’s Staff Council....
Rice Business is pleased to announce that Bob Dittmar, the Houston Endowment Professor of Finance, has been appointed associate dean of the Virani Und...
Rice took center stage at the inaugural South by Southwest London, bringing Texas-sized ambition, pathbreaking innovation and global vision to one of ...
Five students joined peers from 30 institutions across Asia, Europe and North America to form the NextGen Symphony, a first-of-its-kind international ...
Acute myeloid leukemia remains one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of blood cancer, even as treatments have advanced in recent years. ...
Through color, texture, memory and vision, the exhibition invites viewers into an aesthetic dialogue that interrogates the stories we inherit and the ...
A team of six Rice students developed a device that holds and stabilizes an intracardiac echocardiography catheter during heart procedures, allowing ...
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rice is proud to announce that HEXAspec, a cutting-edge spinout from the lab of professor Jun ...
Rice's Yonglong Xie has been recognized for his innovation in quantum phenomena....
A decade of discovery: 10 years of Rice’s Archives of the Impossible
April 9, 2024
It all started with a conversation during a ride to the airport in December 2014. Jeffrey Kripal, Rice University’s J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, was wrapping up a trip to Berkeley, California, where he’d spent time with Jacques Vallée.
Owls flock to central quad to view solar eclipse
April 8, 2024
Hundreds of Rice students, faculty and staff could be seen sporting special solar eclipse glasses and gazing into the sky at the central quad during the afternoon April 8 as much of the campus gathered to view the historic solar eclipse.
Rice Global Paris Center hosts art history students, faculty during spring break trip
April 8, 2024
Rice’s Department of Art History embarked on a journey to Paris in March, marking the 10th anniversary of its annual spring break trip.
Protein ice cream company wins 2024 Rice Business Plan Competition
April 8, 2024
Ice cream company Protein Pints took home the grand prize at the 2024 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) April 6 as the best student ventures from top universities across the world competed for prizes in front of nearly 350 angel, venture capital and corporate investors and members of the business community.
Rolling into spring fun with 67th annual Beer Bike race
April 8, 2024
Rice University’s annual intramural bicycle race, Beer Bike, took place April 6 and saw Rice’s 11 residential colleges and the Graduate Student Association compete for bragging rights.
Richard Tapia celebrated for 50 years of service at Rice
April 8, 2024
National Medal of Science winner Richard Tapia, a University Professor, the Maxfield-Oshman Professor in Engineering and professor of computational applied mathematics and operations research at Rice University, was celebrated for five decades of service to the university April 3 at Rice’s Faculty Club. He is widely recognized as a national leader in the preparation of women and underrepresented minorities for advanced degrees in science, engineering and mathematics.
Rice to host international conference exploring Michel Foucault’s legacy
April 8, 2024
Rice University will convene a group of international scholars as part Foucault: 40 Years After, a world congress commemorating the enduring legacy of Michel Foucault.
Discovery points path to flashlike memory for storing qubits
April 5, 2024
Rice physicists have discovered a phase-changing quantum material — and a method for finding more like it — that could potentially be used to create flashlike memory capable of storing quantum bits of information, or qubits, even when a quantum computer is powered down.
Shepherd School students combine their new music with new art at Rice’s Moody Center
April 5, 2024
Students from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music composed and performed a series of compositions that served as musical responses to the themes and artworks present in the Moody Center for the Arts’ spring 2024 exhibition Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign Among Us.
Rice celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride Week April 8-14
April 5, 2024
Rice University will host its Pride Week April 8-14. The festivities will include learning opportunities, drag performances, inclusivity events, a parade and The Gayla.