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 faculty and Baker Institute leadership are remembering former President Jimmy Carter — his life, legacy and connection to the university....
Rice bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. The research is a major breakth...
Rice chemists have developed a more environmentally friendly way to integrate chlorine into chemical building blocks....
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 5, 2022
December 5, 2022
Richard Gordon, the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geophysics in Rice’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, is to receive the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Stephan Mueller Medal for 2023. Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, has been named president of the American Geophysical Union Near-Surface Geophysics focus group.
After beating Aggies and Frogs, Rice women 7-0 for first time
December 5, 2022
The Rice women’s basketball team scored a pair of victories over major conference foes
Comic Art Teaching & Study Workshop receives original comic art gift worth six figures
December 5, 2022
A rare art collection featuring some of the most famous cartoon characters in American history has been acquired by Rice University’s Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop (CATS) within the School of Humanities’ Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts.
Rice volleyball team bows out in second round of NCAA Tournament
December 5, 2022
Rice’s volleyball team dominated the final two sets to claim a 3-1 victory (26-24, 24-26, 25-16, 25-14) over the University of Colorado Boulder in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Dec. 1 in Waco, Texas, before dropping a five-set battle with Baylor University (16-25, 25-22, 25-23, 14-25, 15-11) in the second round Dec. 2.
December 5, 2022
Fear of hate crime looms especially large in the minds of Jews and Muslims, even if they have never been personally targeted, according to a new study from Rice University and West Virginia University.
Rice organizes drive to house, assist international students over winter break
December 5, 2022
Hosted by the Office of International Students and Scholars — International Connections (OISS), the International Holiday Hospitality Help Program aims to provide amenities such as low-cost/no-cost housing accommodations, meals and gift cards/cash to international undergraduate students who cannot return to their home this holiday season.
Owls land in LendingTree Bowl, will face Southern Miss
December 5, 2022
Rice is headed to a bowl game for the first time since 2014. The LendingTree Bowl will pit the Owls (5-7) against the University of Southern Mississippi (6-6) Dec. 17 in Mobile, Alabama. The 4:45 p.m. game between the former Conference USA foes will be televised by ESPN.
Debt-ceiling decision could complicate foreign policy, Baker Institute diplomacy expert argues
December 5, 2022
Joe Barnes, the Bonner Means Baker Fellow, argues in a new issue brief that a Republican-led House could complicate President Biden’s ability to achieve his goals regarding China and the Russia-Ukraine war.
December 2, 2022
Evelyn Tang, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and a member of Rice University’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
HIV ‘drug factory’ implant promises once-a-year therapy
December 2, 2022
A Rice University lab is developing encapsulated cellular “drug factories” to treat patients with HIV through a once-a-year implant.