Greg Marshall’s ‘right livelihood’: A career of connection leads to Rice’s Y. Ping Sun Award
Greg Marshall was awarded the Y. Ping Sun Award for Community Engagement, one of Rice’s highest honors for service beyond campus.
John C. Polking, professor emeritus of mathematics, passed away June 28 at the age of 93. ...
Frank Martin Fisher Jr., a Rice professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology, passed away at the age of 95 on June 23. ...
For Mauricio Benitez, every FIFA World Cup is about more than the soccer on the field. It’s about the people....
New research examines how dual-earner couples balanced work and family responsibilities during the early weeks of the pandemic....
Rice Business earned five top 10 rankings in The Princeton Review's 2027 business school rankings, highlighted by its first-ever recognition for Best ...
Rice recently held a two-day Urban Sustainability Innovation Sprint and the opening reception for the Urban Sustainability Projects Portfolio at the I...
For professor Laura Kabiri, who teaches the same physiology course in Houston, Paris changed what the material meant to her students. ...
More than 800 K–12 students from across the Greater Houston area traded traditional summer pastimes for notebooks, pens and art supplies as participan...
As artificial intelligence accelerates demand for computing power across the U.S., a new study co-authored by Hon Chung Lau, adjunct professor in the ...
The Claudio X. González Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy convened leading trade experts to examine ...
Rice’s Na Wang and Sylvia Dee find extreme weather across Asia is connected and increasing in frequency. ...
Oren Samet, who is joining Rice’s Department of Political Science as an assistant professor, researches the international dimensions of authoritarian ...
Rice hosts global quantum experts in Paris for cutting-edge conference
A Rice-led conference in Paris convened global experts in cavity quantum electrodynamics to explore new approaches to controlling light-matter interactions and advancing quantum technologies.
Future Owls flock to Rice for Owl Days
Rice recently welcomed admitted students and their families to campus for Owl Days and Owl Days Express. The program is an opportunity for new students to explore the campus and its surrounding area. The Class of 2030 connected with fellow Owls, learned more about what the next four years may look like and experienced the university’s community, academics and culture of care.
Room-temperature multiferroic could pave way to low-energy computing
Rice researchers engineered a new version of a well-known multiferroic that exhibits orders of magnitude higher performance at room temperature than its parent material.
Abdulky, Ogunlana earn top honors at 2026 Night of the Owl
Rice student-athletes and coaches celebrated a successful 2025-26 athletic season Monday evening at the annual Night of the Owl event, presented by SAAC and the "R" Association.
Schmidt named Coach of the Year; Ratkovic and Schwartzman earn All-Conference honors
Rice women's tennis lands two American All-Conference selections, while head coach Elizabeth Schmidt was named American Conference Coach of the Year, the league announced Tuesday.
Kuzmenok named Player of the Year; earns All-Conference honors
Junior Petro Kuzmenok became the first Rice Owl to earn American Conference Player of the Year honors, headlining Rice's postseason awards, the league announced Tuesday.
Student innovators from across the globe gathered at Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborative to tackle some of the world’s most urgent health challenges.
Partnerships and perspectives showcased at annual Sustainability Summit
The Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted its annual Sustainability Summit, emphasizing the importance of systems thinking in addressing complex sustainability challenges.
Brain-computer interface based on Rice research wins FDA approval for first clinical trial
Motif Neurotech, a company commercializing technology based on research at Rice, has received approval from the FDA to begin the first clinical trial of its therapeutic brain-computer interface for treatment of treatment-resistant depression.