The Digital Health Institute — a recently launched joint initiative between Rice University and Houston Methodist — has appointed Pothik Chatterjee as...
Rice University students will build skills in science labs, take high-impact field trips, hear from guest speakers, curate art exhibits, enhance learn...
Twenty-seven biotechnology governance entreaties echoing the legacy of the 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines are now available for public review....
A new sustainability initiative is transforming the landscape outside Fondren Library at Rice University — and it’s more than just a garden....
A team of researchers at Rice has discovered a surprisingly simple method for vastly improving the stability of electrochemical devices that convert c...
Rice faculty are available to help news media explore the deeper histories behind Juneteenth, its Texas roots and what freedom has meant in different ...
The Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative launched its inaugural seminar June 3 with an invited talk from Nobel laureate James P. Allison....
Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research releases its 2025 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report....
Rice experts can unpack and contextualize Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's statement at the VivaTech 2025 conference in Paris today that quantum computing is...
Throughout the day, the Houston booth saw a constant stream of visitors with Rice-affiliated entrepreneurs introducing their ventures to global invest...
Volunteers from the Department of Psychological Sciences assemble gift bags for those supported by Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston....
A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables...
January 8, 2024
On Jan. 16, Treva Lindsey, professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Ohio State University and co-founder of Black Feminist Night School at Zora’s House, will deliver a lecture titled “Until Justice Rolls Down Like Water: The Enduring Power of Black Freedom Dreams.”
Rice bioengineering curriculum cultivates human-centered approach to medical design
January 8, 2024
A five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will support the development of an innovative undergraduate bioengineering curriculum component intended to cultivate inclusive design principles for Rice students contemplating a career as medical practitioners or medical technology innovators.
January 4, 2024
Clemente Rodriguez, chief of police and director of public safety for the Rice University Police Department, participated in a press conference with new Houston Mayor John Whitmire and Houston Police Chief Troy Finner to discuss high priority issues surrounding the city’s public safety Jan. 4.
Friedman Holistic Garden Director Joseph Novak honored by Rice Board of Trustees
January 4, 2024
Rice University’s Board of Trustees recently recognized Joseph R. Novak, faculty lecturer in the biosciences department and director of the Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden, for his contributions to both the university and the community.
National experts to speak at Rice symposium on future of general education
January 3, 2024
Rice University’s Center for Teaching Excellence will host its 11th annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning: The Future of General Education at Rice from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 5, 2024.
‘Truly priceless’: Rice Business students deliver holiday cheer to Vietnamese children
December 20, 2023
During the inaugural course visit to Vietnam, students from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business embraced the true spirit of the holiday season by sharing joy and creating unforgettable memories with the children of Little Rose Shelter.
’Tis the season of giving . . . and engineering
December 20, 2023
The holiday season kicked off early this year for a Rice staff member who received a welcome and much-needed gift from a team of freshman engineering students.
Molecular jackhammers’ ‘good vibrations’ eradicate cancer cells
December 19, 2023
Rice scientists and collaborators at Texas A&M University and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a new way to kill cancer cells by using near-infrared light to make a small dye molecule attached to their membrane vibrate strongly. It is the first time this kind of mechanical molecular action has been used as a potential therapy.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 18, 2023
December 18, 2023
People, papers and presentations ...
Newest Owls react to being accepted into Rice Class of 2028
December 18, 2023
Congratulations to the newest Owls!