Rice’s Jamie Padgett wins Charles Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award
Rice’s Jamie Padgett has been awarded the 2024 Charles Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The 2026 H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge saw five ventures founded by Rice students compete for the top prize of $50,000. The April 21 event sh...
Rice researchers find that that PEX11 helps regulate plant peroxisome’s size changes during the seed to seedling stage. ...
Rice's first annual bird-in, which supports the Houston Audubon, was hosted at the Owl Pavilion this Earth Day....
Alex Cantin is graduating this May with a degree in business management, including a minor in entrepreneurship, from the Virani Undergraduate School o...
Kraft Hall was buzzing with energy and a little bit of chaos as Rice undergraduates transformed its corridors into a packed showcase of original resea...
“I designed the syllabus very purposefully so as to feature a great diversity of viewpoints,” said Thimo Heisenberg, assistant professor of philosophy...
Nearly 100 students presented research and creative work across two days at the annual Humanities and Arts Festival held April 13-14....
Rice professor Pengcheng Dai has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious learned societies i...
Attacks on health care in conflict zones are occurring at unprecedented levels, according to Safeguarding Health Care in Conflict Coalition and Médeci...
The production set the opera’s Shakespearean farce inside a modern country club, a staging choice that sharpened the comedy’s skewering of ego, class ...
New research from Rice proposes transforming one of the moon’s most stubborn obstacles, its abrasive dust, into a valuable building resource....
Rice researchers develop new model of follicle selection that suggests its chance, not size, that selects a follicle during the menstrual cycle....
Rice University’s Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning and Fondren Library have partnered with the Houston Public Library and the CCM Foundation to help present the “‘Straight Flexin’, No Plexin’” hip-hop exhibit.
In the brain at rest, neurons rehearse future experience
New research from Rice and the University of Michigan sheds light on how individual neurons in the hippocampus of rats stabilize and tune spatial representations during periods of rest following the animals’ first time running a maze, offering first proof of neuroplasticity during sleep.
Rice researchers uncover surprising role of opioid receptors in gut development
Researchers at Rice have revealed a previously unknown function of opioid receptors in the development of the enteric nervous system.
Rice and Houston Community College collaborate to diversify access to biomedical research training
Rice and Houston Community College collaborate to diversify access to biomedical research training through program funded by a $1.8M NIH grant.
Rice University experts are available to discuss a variety of hurricane-related topics with the media.
Research security as a top government, university priority examined at Rice Baker Institute workshop
Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a workshop with experts spanning disciplines such as public policy, mathematics, physics, computer sciences, engineering and the social sciences to chart a path forward for the emerging field of research on research security.
Rice expands global reach with Paris Center
The halls of Rice’s first international campus have been buzzing with student learning, faculty exchange and groundbreaking research collaborations.
‘World class’ CoachRICE program offers globally recognized leader development coaching
Rice’s CoachRICE program is available this summer for aspiring leaders and coaches looking toward a formal training credential.
One-day shoot, two-year wait: Rice student’s journey to ‘Fallout’
When she first appears on screen 11 minutes into the third episode of Amazon Prime’s “Fallout,” Viola Hsia is all business as the character Jamila.