With the 2026 midterm elections approaching, former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan joined Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy for a conversation ab...
Rice’s Texas-Latin America Social Science Forum on Language and Opportunity brought together scholars from sociology, economics and political science ...
With a May 11, 2027 national deadline for digital accessibility compliance approaching, Rice is accelerating efforts to make its digital environment m...
Rice University’s Ken Kennedy Institute will celebrate its 40th anniversary Nov. 9 with a public event on responsible AI leadership. The daylong progr...
Brené Brown was a featured speaker at the 2026 International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM) held Oct. 11-13 at Rice....
The annual Texas ETA Conference, organized by Rice MBA students and hosted by Rice Business, brought together aspiring entrepreneurs, investors, busin...
Rice launched AI Week 2026 with a fireside chat focused on how artificial intelligence will shape the university’s future in research, teaching and op...
Rice researchers have developed an ultraporous material capable of pulling several valuable and rare earth elements from complex waste streams, a pote...
Researchers from Rice and Baylor College of Medicine have secured NIH funding to develop a novel, non-DNA-altering CRISPR gene-tuning therapy designed...
Lisa Basgall, Rice's Emergency Medical Services director, has earned the Chief EMS Officer designation, a professional credential held by fewer than 3...
When geopolitical conflicts disrupt fuel shipments, electricity demand outpaces infrastructure development or critical mineral shortages threaten indu...
The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC), headquartered at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, brought leading univ...
National Academy of Sciences elects Lydia Kavraki as a member
Lydia Kavraki, a leading researcher in robotics, computational biomedicine and artificial intelligence at Rice, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s foremost professional societies dedicated to honoring achievement in science and outstanding original research.
Women's tennis earns at-large bid to NCAA Tournament
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Robert Maxfield to posthumously be awarded ARA’s Gold Medal at Laureates Awards
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
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.”
Rice’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, inducted 21 new members.
