Nameless Sound musicians performed an original score on Nanibah Chacon’s interactive installation following Danza Azteca Macuilxochitl's activation of...
Rice’s James Tour recently published an improved method to recover antimony from this electronic waste stream. ...
Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with career awards, showcasin...
The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act....
The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to bring research to reality and...
The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice has launched CoachRICE: Team Coaching, a new professional education program designed to help coaches, mana...
Graduate student Sayuri Jayawardena has started a Rice chapter of Lifelong Learning with Friends. ...
Scholars, curators and filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto gather at Rice to explore Black histories from Renaissance Italy to medieval Africa and Islamic world...
For the sixth fall in a row, Rice welcomed a new group of researchers to STaRT@Rice, giving emerging researchers both the skills and the support to gr...
Rice and the Houston Methodist Research Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding with LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Poli...
As the 2026-27 Aleko Endowed Artist, Julia Bullock curated an evening of song, chamber music and poetry celebrating the Harlem Renaissance....
Rice’s Yonglong Xie is one of 20 early-career scientists, mathematicians and engineers to receive a 2026 Packard Fellowship. ...
Scientists uncover new clue to how protons maintain their identity
New results from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that gluons, the gluelike particles that hold quarks together inside protons, play a central role in the conservation of baryon number, an essential part of a particle’s quantum identity.
Rice professor advises computational chemistry researchers to prepare for new AI tools
David Sholl, Rice’s executive vice president for research and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, recently published an opinion piece in ACS Central Science, where he and co-author Andrew Medford, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, share their perspective on machine learning tools expected to bring radical changes to the field of computational chemistry.
Rice alumnus earns international honor for decades of software innovation
Rice alumnus Cary Jensen receives an international honor recognizing his decades of contributions to software development, education and technical communication.
Rice researchers show graphene nanowrinkles can reshape electricity
Rice researchers have shown that tiny wrinkles in graphene can change the material’s electrical properties.
Rice’s Huang elected fellow of SPIE for contributions to optics and photonics
Shengxi Huang was elected this month as a fellow of SPIE.
Rice launches SCOPE, a new science communication center
The Center for Science Communication and Public Engagement (SCOPE) is now open at Rice.
Hall Frenkel to lead Rice’s collaborative health initiatives
Rice's Office of Research has bolstered its commitment to foster collaborations and educational partnerships with health-related institutions of the Texas Medical Center by hiring Becky Hall Frenkel to lead its Educational and Research Initiatives for Collaborative Health office.
Asana Day teaches Owls about tool to streamline work
Rice employees took a major step toward more efficient project management during the university’s first-ever Asana Day, an immersive training event hosted by the Operational Excellence team from the Division of Operations, Finance and Support.
Rice student startups take the stage at Lilie’s Summer Venture Studio Preview Day
Seven student startups showcased their ventures at the Summer Venture Studio Preview Day hosted by Rice University’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The three-month intensive program is meant to provide equity-free funding and individualized support.
Rice Brain Institute collaboration to test patient-driven robotic therapy for stroke recovery
A new Rice Brain Institute collaboration is bringing together robotics, neuroscience and clinical expertise to explore a more active approach to stroke rehabilitation.
