Rice extends a heartfelt thank you to Hannes Hofer, who is retiring from the institution after more than 40 years of service to the community. ...
Researchers at Rice, in collaboration with Guangdong University of Technology, have uncovered an innovative approach to treating high-salinity organic...
The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice will host “Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice,” an exhibition that highlights the intersection of envi...
Economist Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business and the Virani Undergraduate School of Business at Rice, has been appointed t...
New research by Rice physicists shows the possibility for particles that are neither bosons nor fermions....
Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts announces its spring 2025 programming schedule featuring artists, activists and scholars exploring the links between ...
During the fall 2024 semester, Camille Neal-Harris started her Tuesdays much like any other Rice student, but reaching the finish line likely felt a b...
The Rice community mourns the passing of Peter Vail, the W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography, who passed away Dec. 28, 2024, at the ag...
Rice’s Police Department partnered with the Children’s Assessment Center to sponsor 14 families for its 12th annual Blue Santa Toy Drive. All donated ...
On Jan. 16, Rice’s Richard Lavenda will debut “Upon Further Reflection,” the second of seven commissioned works celebrating the Shepherd School of Mus...
Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts will open its spring season with “score for transitional times,” a captivating dance performance and installation by ...
This season marks the first time Rice has sent two players to the NFL’s Pro Bowl since 1961, when J.D. Smith and Buddy Dial played in the game....
Rice’s annual United Way campaign concludes, raising over $260,000 in 18 weeks
January 17, 2023
After 18 weeks of fundraising, Rice’s annual United Way campaign ultimately brought in $260,397.
Rice’s Jamie Padgett wins Texas academy’s O’Donnell Award
January 17, 2023
Rice University structural engineer Jamie Padgett has received the 2023 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas.
Rice salutes Martin Luther King Jr.
January 17, 2023
Rice University celebrated the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with a vigil and panel discussion on social justice followed by participating in an annual parade.
Research on televised opera, slave voyages honored with National Endowment for the Humanities grants
January 17, 2023
A Rice University musicologist and history professor are among the recipients of 2023 grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for their research projects on televised opera and tracking historical slave trading voyages.
Owls take two in dramatic finishes
January 17, 2023
It was a thrilling holiday weekend for the Rice men’s basketball team, which won Conference USA contests over a pair of in-state rivals.
Inner ear has a need for speed
January 17, 2023
Rice bioengineers and applied physicists, together with and colleagues at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago, have unlocked the mechanism of the fastest synapses in the human body. A previously hidden mechanism in the inner ear that helps mammals balance via the fastest-known signal in the brain, and researchers from Rice University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago have modeled a hidden mechanism in the inner ear that helps mammals balance via the fastest-known signal in the brain.
Inclusive instruction featured at 10th annual Center for Teaching Excellence symposium
January 17, 2023
Kimberly Tanner’s workshop at the Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence’s 10th annual symposium focused on a few key elements. To truly turn an audience of pupils into an engaged group of active learners, she shared a few pointers.
January 17, 2023
Some of the most recognizable conductors in the classical music world will take the stage at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music over the next 18 months.
Nanoparticles make it easier to turn light into solvated electrons
January 17, 2023
Chemists from Rice, UT Austin and Stanford have uncovered the long-sought mechanism of a light-driven process that creates solvated electrons, inherently clean chemical reactants that are attractive for green chemistry.
People, papers and presentations for Jan. 17, 2023
January 17, 2023
David Alexander, director of the Rice Space Institute and professor of physics and astronomy, is one of six members of the new Scotland International Space Advisory Committee, which will provide advice and identify opportunities for the country in the global space market.