Rice physicist Guido Pagano unveiled a new, two-knob control for a trapped-ion quantum simulator that allows individual control of temperature and dis...
Trill Burgers, the award-winning smashed burger concept from legendary rapper and entrepreneur Bernard Freeman (Bun B), is coming to Rice. Beginning A...
A team led by Shihong Lin has shown that electrochemical ion pumping can be programmed to desalinate wastewater while selectively recovering dissolved...
Rice's Ming Yi recently showed that the quantum material ruthenium dioxide potentially displays this new altermagnetism in its ultrathin film form in ...
The 2026 Humans to Mars and the Moon Summit (H2M2), hosted by the nonprofit Explore Mars, was recently held at Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborativ...
The Center for Community Learning and Engagement at Rice's Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies is welcoming the fall season with a new l...
Rice associate professor of political science sought to better understand how members of one of America’s fastest-growing racial and immigrant populat...
Now in its sixth year, the free community day returned July 18....
“This experience made me realize how strongly students respond to that and how engaged the rest of the class becomes listening and learning from it," ...
A new monograph published in Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, Yueyang Liu, assistant professor of operations management at Rice Business, a...
Rice’s OWL SUITS team, led by members of the Rice Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Club, was selected for NASA SUITS, a national software design chal...
Rice is a double winner in the 47th annual Telly Awards, which honor excellence in video and television. The university won a silver Telly in the Educ...
Rice to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and his legacy with vigil, parade participation
Rice invites the community to join in celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day with events honoring his life and legacy as well as insights from university experts on the continued relevance of his work.
In Houston’s Texas Medical Center Helix Park, RBL LLC is transforming the path from scientific discovery to lifesaving therapies. This new biotech venture creation studio is designed to rapidly build companies around cutting-edge innovations from Rice University’s Biotech Launch Pad, aiming to bring advanced treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.
Rice Real Estate Co. announces support for affordable housing development in Houston’s Third Ward
Rice Real Estate Co. has entered into an agreement with Brinshore Development and Family Scholar House to support a new housing development in Houston’s Third Ward.
Rice students catch ‘Rides with Reggie’
Kicking off the spring semester, Rice President Reginald DesRoches took the wheel of a golf cart, giving students fun rides across campus and a memorable start to classes!
Rice Business named presenting sponsor for the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition
The world’s largest and richest intercollegiate student startup competition, the RBPC is hosted and organized every spring by the Rice Alliance. Each year, the RBPC brings together the best student ventures from top universities across the world to compete for more than $1 million in prizes in front of more than 350 venture capital, angel and corporate investors as well as members of the Houston business community.
The Brain House at Davos: Rice is helping lead brain health innovation at World Economic Forum
The Brain House at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) upcoming annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, is a marquee platform designed to spotlight the critical importance of brain health and how innovation in “brain capital” can address some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Sponsored by Rice University for the second consecutive year, The Brain House hosted by the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative Jan. 20-24 will showcase a series of events featuring leading experts in health and innovation who are advancing global brain health.
Emerging focus on brain health among several Rice researchers’ expertise
Rice is a hub of cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research on the brain. In addition to a critical mass of researchers in the field, Rice is home to entities dedicated to collaborative clinical and scientific research on the brain.
Caitlin Lindsay honored by Rice Board of Trustees
The Rice Board of Trustees recently recognized Caitlin Lindsay for her unwavering service to the institution and its constituents. She currently serves as the student center director of operations. In addition, she is a Critical Dialogues on Diversity lecturer, a resident associate at Jones College, a member of Staff Council, board treasurer for Valhalla and Willy’s Pub and the situation unit leader of the incident management team. Lindsay sits on various campus committees including the expense reporting improvements design committee and events steering committee.
An international team of engineers has developed an innovative, scalable method for creating topography-patterned aluminum surfaces, enhancing liquid transport properties critical for applications in electronics cooling, self-cleaning technologies and anti-icing systems.
Rice researchers unlock new insights into tellurene, laying the foundation for next-gen electronics
Rice researchers have published a study describing how quasiparticles called polarons behave in tellurene, a nanomaterial first synthesized in 2017 that is made up of tiny chains of tellurium atoms and has properties useful in sensing, electronic, optical and energy devices.
