Rice's SynthX Center is leading a new effort to improve how doctors detect and diagnose lymphatic diseases....
A technology designed to read gene activity in the brain from a simple blood test has now cleared a major translational hurdle....
Researchers at Rice have shown that hard-to-spot defects in a widely used two-dimensional insulator can trap electrical charges and locally weaken th...
On Feb. 17, the SSPEED Center welcomed Jed Anderson, founder and CEO of EnviroAI, for a lecture on environmental AI permitting. ...
The Rice women's basketball team was crowned the American Conference regular season champion after a 77-66 win at Temple Wednesday night at The Liacou...
Frank Klaus Tittel, a physicist whose career paralleled the rise of modern laser technology and who helped build Rice’s reputation in laser spectrosc...
Art teachers, artists and comics enthusiasts gathered at Rice University Feb. 20 for Teaching Comics, a one-day symposium exploring how comics can fun...
Nearly 700 prospective graduate students, current scholars, faculty and staff gathered at the Houston Museum of Natural Science for Rice University’s ...
Martono, a second-year master’s student in violin performance, won the title of Miss Chinatown Houston 2025, her first-ever pageant....
Undergraduates at Rice are digging into real, possible wrongful conviction cases this semester, examining evidence to bring renewed attention to indiv...
Rice President Reginald DesRoches was honored with a Community Trailblazer Award Feb. 19 by the city of Houston’s controller Chris Hollins during his ...
Rice commends Stacy Mosely for 14 years of service. As executive senior associate athletic director/senior woman administrator, Mosely maintains admin...
New Rice research projects aim to ‘transform’ future of advanced materials
Rice materials scientist Boris Yakobson has won three awards from two federal agencies totaling $4,140,611 over several years to research challenging aspects of advanced materials’ production, performance and dynamics.
Rice’s Graduate Muslim Student Association celebrates Eid al-Adha
Rice’s Graduate Muslim Student Association held a dinner June 28 at Farnsworth Pavilion in a belated celebration of Eid al-Adha, the second of two main Islamic holidays that marks the culmination of the pilgrimage rites at Minā, Saudi Arabia, near Mecca, honoring Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son.
Rice research aims to reprogram the genetic code
Chemist Han Xiao has been awarded nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award.
Do genes-in-pieces code for proteins that fold in pieces?
A new study led by Peter Wolynes offers new insights into the evolution of foldable proteins.
Rice Owls cap monthlong festivities at annual Pride Parade
A group of more than 50 Rice community members banded together to brave the heat and show their spirit in this year’s Houston Pride Parade June 29.
‘The surviving shards’: Donation preserves comic art at Rice
Rice’s Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop has received a significant donation of original comic art, enhancing its already sizable collection.
Rice engages young minds with STEM-focused summer camps
Rice’s Office of STEM Engagement and Rice Athletics have been holding weeklong day camps for third, fourth and fifth grade students. Dubbed STEM-Letics and now in its seventh year, with Space Week in its second year, the day camps are designed to keep students both mentally and physically active during the summer break.
Ahalya Lettenberger selected to US swimming team for 2024 Paralympic Games
Former Rice swimmer Ahalya Lettenberger is one of 21 women and 12 men who will represent Team USA at the 2024 Paralympic Games, which begin Aug. 28 in Paris.
Rice student’s Juneteenth poem celebrates legacy of Freedmen’s Town
Though she grew up in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town, Avalon Hogans didn’t start digging into the history of the area until she came to Rice.
A partnership between Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies and SLB has been providing scholarship funding for military spouses, veterans and active duty military personnel to train for careers in human resources since 2020.
