Rice remembers community advocate and alumna Janis Scott, Houston’s ‘bus lady’
Janis Scott ’74, a Rice alumna and long-standing pillar of the Houston community, passed away Dec. 9 at the age of 73.
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...
A new study sheds light on the critical role marital relationships play in the mental and physical health of caregivers for spouses living with dementia.
New Rice-TMC research projects drive advances in health and medicine
Seven research partnerships involving Rice, the Baker Institute for Public Policy and various institutions within the Texas Medical Center (TMC) received seed grants in 2024 through the Provost’s TMC Collaborator Fund. These grants were facilitated by Rice’s office for Educational and Research Initiatives for Collaborative Health (ENRICH).
Rice partners with Greentown Labs to accelerate innovation in Houston’s Ion District
Rice is joining a new partnership to support climate tech solutions through Greentown Labs, North America’s largest climate tech incubator.
Rice recognized as an ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting
Rice has been recognized by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting. The honor recognizes colleges and universities for outstanding efforts to increase nonpartisan student voter participation.
50 years of innovation: Shepherd School premieres first anniversary commission
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music marked the beginning of its 50th anniversary celebrations with the Oct. 16 world premiere of “Birds Are Real; Ambushed From Ten Directions.”
Getting in the holiday spirit: DesRoches family hosts staff for Christmas celebration
The holiday season is fully underway at Rice as President Reginald DesRoches and his wife Paula Gilmer DesRoches hosted the annual staff holiday celebration on campus Dec. 13.
Rice welcomes opening patent appeal roadshow, offering rare insights from patent judges
A panel of Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges recently visited Rice to take part in an ex parte appeal training session at Fondren Library where the judges shared best practices for how to succeed in an appeal.
Rice hosts assistant secretary of defense for science and technology
The United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology Honorable Aprille Ericsson visited Rice to explore areas of alignment between Rice’s research strengths and Department of Defense technological needs and priorities.
‘Never been stronger’: State of the University address showcases Rice’s success, growth
Rice President Reginald DesRoches delivered his State of the University address Dec. 11 at the Moody Center for the Arts, highlighting points of pride from the past year and providing a look to the future.