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 alum and board member named interim CEO, president of Unity
Rice University Board of Trustees member James Whitehurst ’89 was recently named interim CEO and president of Unity, the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D content, headquartered in San Francisco.
Rice’s Naomi Halas wins Mildred Dresselhaus Prize
Naomi Halas, a pioneering researcher in the fields of nanophotonics and plasmonics at Rice University, has been awarded the 2024 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize for Nanoscience/Nanomaterials from the American Physical Society.
Rice’s Gustavo Scuseria wins Aneesur Rahman Prize
Pioneering computational chemist Gustavo Scuseria has won the 2024 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.
Forbes named NCAA Woman of the Year top 30 finalist
Rice’s Grace Forbes was chosen as one of the Top 30 honorees for the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year Award, the organization announced Oct. 23.
Kesem at Rice holds team-bonding ‘Olympics’
Kesem at Rice threw an outdoor competition-themed social to enjoy the fall weather and inspire team-bonding among its many volunteers. The festivities, held on a knoll outside Brochstein Pavilion, included games like cup stacking, face the cookie, spoon-and-egg races and tug of war.
Rice welcomes United Arab Emirates health care leaders
Rice welcomed guests from the United Arab Emirates Oct. 12 and 17 as they toured the university’s BioScience Research Collaborative.
Rice Staff Council hosted its Fall Staff Social Oct. 20 at Valhalla. Staff members mingled while enjoying free food, drinks and conversation with their fellow colleagues and the university administration. Photos by Amy McCaig.
Owls capture first road AAC win
Rice secured its first road win in the American Athletic Conference and largest conference victory since 2013, defeating Tulsa University 42-10 on Oct. 19 at H.A. Chapman Stadium.
Rice hosts distributed computing, machine learning colloquium
Rice hosted the Texas Colloquium on Distributed Learning, a two-day summit of talks on distributed computing and large-scale machine learning held at the new Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science.
