Glasscock School of Continuing Studies launches teaching minor
Rice’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies is now offering a minor in teaching, marking the school’s first undergraduate credential.
Shima Oliaee created the podcast “Dolly Parton’s America,” which began as a four-hour interview with the superstar in her music recording studio in Na...
Rice has reached a major milestone in its campus sustainability efforts, composting more than 2 million pounds of food waste since launching its compo...
Rice’s Pride spirit took to the streets of downtown Houston Aug. 15 as students, faculty, staff and alumni joined thousands of Houstonians for the cit...
Rice Athletics welcomed fans to Rice Stadium Aug. 22 for its annual Fan Fest, bringing together student-athletes, coaches and supporters to celebrate ...
New research about memory suggests that each time we access information, the way we recall it can influence how the brain represents it the next time....
A new Rice study shines a spotlight on a widespread challenge, finding that half of Harris County households with children struggle to reliably access...
A project led by the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies aimed at making breast cancer diagnosis faster and more accessible in rural and ...
Bioengineering students address 5 unmet health care needs through clinical immersion in Houston hospitals...
Just over 550 new master’s students officially began their graduate journeys at Rice this fall, joining programs across architecture, creative writing...
Rice's Division of Operations, Finance and Support recently brought employees together at West Servery for a summer celebration marking the close of t...
Nearly 270 incoming doctoral students officially began their graduate journeys at Rice by signing the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies doct...
Rice’s new undergraduate minor examines the biological, psychological and social factors that shape health....
Rice convenes experts to examine history, identity and global impact of Haiti
Exploring Haiti’s colonial past, its revolution and independence and its contemporary challenges, the symposium “Haiti and the World: Global Encounters of the Past, Present and Future” addressed themes such as migration, political resilience, economic struggles and environmental concerns.
Rice Master of Global Affairs students take on international policy negotiation in Paris
In their final semester, a group of Master of Global Affairs students applied their academic knowledge in a real-world setting, spending a week in Paris.
Rice’s Lydia Kavraki elected to National Academy of Engineering
Rice computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer, for her work on “developing randomized motion-planning algorithms for robotics and robotics-inspired methods in biomedicine.”
Mothers with incarcerated children shoulder emotional and financial burdens
The financial and emotional toll borne by mothers whose adult children have experienced incarceration is often overlooked but can exacerbate financial burdens, especially for Black mothers, according to new research from Rice sociologist Brielle Bryan.
True love: Rice chooses Houston as its valentine
Members of the Rice community gathered Feb. 10 at the Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall in an act of love by creating Valentine’s Day cards for the community in partnership with United Way of Greater Houston. Faculty, staff and students came together in droves to fold, decorate and write messages, showing that the people of Houston are the heart of the city this Valentine’s Day.
Rice students build interactive platform to track carbon capture risks in Texas
The website functions like a digital museum exhibit, offering story maps, GIS map visualizations and advocacy tools to help communities understand and respond to potential environmental risks.
Phillip Pyle II’s ‘Spectrum Sammy’ brings color, curiosity, conversation to the Moody
A visual artist, graphic designer and photographer, Phillip Pyle II's work engages with race and popular culture through the lens of graphic design.
Rice Reflects, an initiative of Rice’s Office of the Provost to highlight and create opportunities for conversations across perceived differences, is announcing its next four events available for students, faculty and staff.
‘Smaller and better’: Rice research uncovers performance sweet spot for relaxor nanomaterial
A new study led by Rice materials scientist Lane Martin sheds light on how the extreme miniaturization of thin films affects the behavior of relaxor ferroelectrics — materials with noteworthy energy-conversion properties used in sensors, actuators and nanoelectronics.