Rice hosts workshop and winter school to advance quantum materials research
Rice’s Center for Quantum Materials and Smalley-Curl Institute recently held two successive events aimed at advancing the field of quantum materials research.
Caleb McDaniel traces the holiday’s origins to a June 19, 1866, procession through Houston led by two Black ministers. ...
Rice researchers from the Kavraki lab presented a keynote tutorial at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Vien...
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and Rice, along with campus partners and affiliates, will host a variety of events throughout the month to celebrate the L...
Rice researchers' analysis uncovers the history of the Houston meteorite....
Benjamin Kamins, Erin Hannigan, Elizabeth Freimuth and recently retired Janet Rarick offered master classes for student musicians in Guanajuato, Mexic...
Rice took a significant step toward expanding its documentation of Houston’s diverse communities June 1, hosting a ceremony to formally establish an I...
Deans, faculty, staff and board members gathered June 2 to celebrate Rice Business Dean Peter Rodriguez’s 10 years transforming the business school at...
“NASA Stories at the Ion” is a morning series that spotlights the human side of space exploration with each session featuring personal and powerful st...
Rice researchers recently published a paper in Science Advances showing that the nitrogen and phosphorus composition of iron meteorites are different ...
Seven alumni have been selected to serve on Rice's Association of Rice Alumni (ARA) Board of Directors : Carlin Cherry, Kate Gunn Pagel, LaKeisha Batt...
Rice doctoral student Agustin Prinetti will spend the fall semester in Paris studying how people use AI chatbots to fact-check political content and n...
Klaus Weissenberger’s scholarly range stretched from 18th-century lyric poetry to the evolution of the fairy tale and the distinctions between German ...
Rice observes National Collegiate EMS Week with workshops, fun activities
Rice Emergency Medical Services recognized the 26th annual National Collegiate EMS Week Nov. 11-17 by hosting community education efforts and spirited activities to increase public awareness of collegiate EMS.
Lung cancer awareness walk brings over 250 people to Rice Stadium
The Rice community came together in a display of unity and purpose for the LUNGevity Breathe Deep Together Walk at Rice Stadium Nov. 16.
Take Flight program makes four-year STEM education ‘accessible to all high-achieving students’
More than 100 students from local community colleges visited Rice’s campus Nov. 8 as part of a transformative pathway program meant to increase STEM degree completion and educational access for Houston-area students from under-resourced and historically excluded communities.
Local Foods Market-Rice University now open at Brochstein Pavilion
Longtime Houston restaurateur Benjy Levit debuted Local Foods Market at Rice, situated in the newly renovated Brochstein Pavilion, during a soft opening Nov. 19. Its hours of operation will be weekdays from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. and weekends 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Rice welcomes more than 400 students to Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium
Rice drew more than 400 of the nation’s brightest undergraduate researchers to its campus Nov. 8-10 for the 16th annual Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Rice public health summit addresses politics of vaccine hesitancy
Health, religion and public policy experts discussed the challenges of vaccine hesitancy as well as the upcoming Texas legislative session at the 2024 Texas Vaccine Policy Symposium, hosted by the Center for Health and Biosciences at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy Nov. 15.
Top university entrepreneurship centers announced at GCEC conference
The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC), headquartered at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship in Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, brought leading university entrepreneurship programs together to celebrate creativity and innovation in university-based entrepreneurship education for its annual conference Nov. 14-16. GCEC also announced the top programs in higher education at the event.
Rice celebrates first Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander Night
The Rice community joined together at the grassy knoll outside the Memorial Student Center and Brochstein Pavilion to celebrate Rice’s first Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander Night Nov. 8. More than 800 people took in an evening of entertainment, fellowship and food and beverages from local businesses operated by people with SEAPI heritage. The evening was a collaboration between the Rice Vietnamese Student Association, Rice Filipino Student Association and Rice Southeast Asians United at Rice.
Political block parties in Pennsylvania may have boosted voter turnout, new study finds
Research led by a Rice University political scientist finds that residents living in neighborhoods that hosted at least one block party in prior presidential election years were nearly 2 percentage points more likely to vote in that year’s presidential election compared to those who lived on blocks without such events.