As Rice’s first community behavioral specialist, Nancy Vincent brings a wealth of experience in crisis management, social work and mental health advoc...
Rice's Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies hosted its inaugural Early Childhood Leadership Summit Oct. 3, welcoming 87 education leaders...
Rice hosted the second Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health Biohybrid Devices Summit Sept. 25-26 in Houston to support research and translatio...
Rice materials scientist Geoffroy Hautier has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for his work in high-throughput computational mat...
The Future of AI and Behavioral Health Workshop, a joint effort of Rice and UTHealth Houston, explored the intersection of artificial intelligence and...
The Friends of Fondren Library at Rice hosted its annual membership celebration and dinner at Cohen House Sept. 17, bringing together alumni, donors a...
Gyu-Boong Jo has been selected for the 2025 cohort of the Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative....
After winning the Bayou City Collegiate Classic last week, the Rice Men's Golf team made history, earning co-champion honors at the Trinity Forest Inv...
The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC), headquartered at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, brought leading prog...
Researchers led by James Tour have developed a new way to extract lithium from salty water....
Rice has named 10 graduate students as recipients of the 2025-26 Chevron Energy Graduate Fellowships, a program created through a partnership between ...
One year after launching its ambitious 10-year strategic plan, Momentous: Personalized Scale for Global Impact, Rice is already seeing the transformat...
Rice researchers revolutionizing 5G network testing
With the potential to transform the future of global wireless networks, Rice University engineers are developing a cutting-edge testing framework to assess the stability, interoperability, energy efficiency and communication performance of software-based machine learning-enabled 5G radio access networks (RANs).
Rice names associate vice president for industry and new ventures
Rice’s Office of Innovation has named Brad Burke as associate vice president for industry and new ventures. This new role creates alignment with initiatives in the Office of Innovation and enables the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship to further Rice’s industry relationships and accelerate the scaling of Rice startups.
Get tickets to Rice Night at the Rodeo by Jan. 16
Tickets are on sale now for Rice Night at the Rodeo on March 8. The deadline to purchase tickets in the Rice section at a special price is Jan. 16.
Luke McCaffery accepts invite to Senior Bowl
Rice wide receiver Luke McCaffrey has accepted an invitation to play in the 2024 Reese’s Senior Bowl, which will be played in Mobile, Alabama Feb. 3 and broadcast nationally on NFL Network.
Rice University launches Rice Synthetic Biology Institute to improve lives
The Rice Synthetic Biology Institute aims to catalyze collaborative research in synthetic biology and its translation into technologies that benefit society.
Rice’s Ashok Veeraraghavan wins Texas Academy’s O’Donnell Award
Rice’s Ashok Veeraraghavan has been awarded the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST), one of the state’s highest academic honors.
Rice scientists use blood test to track gene expression in the brain
Rice-engineered synthetic serum marker can track gene expression in the brain noninvasively, using blood tests.
Why poor sleep quality can be a matter of life and death for migrant roofers
Migrant roofers in the U.S. helping communities rebuild from natural disasters often struggle with poor quality of sleep, according to new research from Rice University. The issue can be a matter of life and death for these individuals, who are working in environments where a sleepy misstep can literally end their life or permanently injure them.
Art history scholar to discuss architectural heritage linking Sunnis and Shi’is
In a departure from the prevailing narrative that frames modern conflicts in the Middle East solely through sectarian lines, the research of Stephennie Mulder, associate professor of Islamic art and architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, examines the architecture of medieval Syria to reveal a more complex interaction between Sunni and Shi’i communities.
A Rice University study of food aid programs during the pandemic found that cash assistance provided low-income mothers with greater flexibility to feed their families than food distributions.
