Rice’s Staff Council hosts annual ice cream social at packed West Servery
Staff from all across Rice University’s campus came together May 15 to enjoy ice cream and celebrate the start of summer.
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...
In recognition of her career achievements, NAFSA: Association of International Educators recently honored Adria Baker with its Life Membership Award. Baker retired as Rice’s associate vice provost for international education and executive director of OISS in July 2023.
Houston researchers’ blend of neuroscience, dance gains attention of United Nations
A groundbreaking artistic collaboration between Rice University, the University of Houston (UH) and Sam Houston State University will be featured at the United Nations’ AI for Good global summit in Geneva May 31.
Chemist Julian West makes C&EN magazine’s ‘Talented 12’ list
Rice University chemist Julian West is one of a dozen up-and-coming young scientists featured in Chemical & Engineering News’ (C&EN) 2024 Talented 12, an annual issue of the weekly news magazine that highlights rising stars across all chemistry research disciplines.
Rice’s South Texas Jewish Archives hosts local high schoolers for educational program on campus
About 80 high school seniors from The Emery/Weiner School visited Rice University’s Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives (STJA) earlier this month for an educational program focusing on the history of refuseniks in the Soviet Union and the Houston Action for Soviet Jewry.
Rice ‘most affordable’ private school on ‘New Ivies’ list
As Rice University rises among the nation’s elite institutions, it is now being recognized for its exceptional affordability. Rice was recently included onForbes’ inaugural list of “New Ivies,” celebrated for “turning out smart, driven graduates craved by employers of all types.” Now, new analysis by CNBC highlights Rice as the most affordable private school on this exclusive list.
Global collaboration takes root in Paris: Rice and PSL forge research ties
Rice University and Université Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) convened leading researchers for a daylong summit May 14 at the Rice Global Paris Center, following the official launch of a strategic research partnership between the two institutions.
Rice At Large spring issue now available online
Rice At Large, the quarterly newsletter that showcases Rice University’s outreach programs, is now available online.
Experts discuss immigration as a political tool at Baker Institute event
The future of immigration and its relationship with this year’s election cycle was explored by experts at a May 14 event hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Speakers from academia, media, legislature and immigration organizations surveyed how shifting policies have reshaped migration to the U.S.-Mexico border and discussed prospects for immigration reform.
Swedish delegation visits Rice campus with eye on space exploration
A delegation from Sweden visited Rice to forge new pathways for collaboration and growth in space education and research.