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...
Art history lecture at Rice to explore race, racism and representation in Roman art
Rice’s Department of Art History will hold a lecture, “’Race,’ Racism and Representation in Roman Art: Aethiopians in the Visual Arts of the Roman World,” at Fondren Library Oct. 26.
Decontamination method zaps pollutants from soil
A rapid, high-heat electrothermal soil remediation process developed by Rice scientists and collaborators at the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center flushes out both organic pollutants and heavy metals in seconds without damaging soil fertility.
Tibetan Buddhists’ sand mandala on view this week at Rice’s Moody Center
Monks from the Gaden Shartse monastery in India started creating a sand mandala with accompanying rituals today at the Moody Center for the Arts. The mandala will be on view through Oct. 20, when a dissolution ritual will be performed.
Our Heritage Month wraps with day of festivities
Rice closed out Our Heritage Month with a fun-filled day of events at the Rice Memorial Center Oct. 15. The day began in the Grand Hall where nearly 200 people gathered for “Nuestra Herencia,” a program filled with music, dance, fellowship and food.
Rice remembers psychology professor, groundbreaking administrator Robert L. Bell Jr.
Former professor Robert L. Bell Jr. passed away Sept. 18 at age 89.
Sherwin K. Bryant named director of Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies
Sherwin K. Bryant, a leading scholar of slavery, race and the early modern African diaspora, will join Rice University Jan. 1 as director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) and an associate professor in the Department of History.
Rice to host top Central American scholars from Gulf Coast
Rice University will host the first meeting of the Third Coast Central America Collaborative, a group of scholars and students from the Gulf Coast region that aims to create a network of committed students and scholars of Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras and the Central American immigrant communities in the United States, Oct. 20–21.
Rice Baker Institute’s David Satterfield appointed special envoy to Middle East by President Biden
David Satterfield, director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey, was appointed Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues by President Joe Biden Oct. 15 to coordinate diplomatic efforts to address the critical humanitarian issues resulting from Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel.
Rice Swimming captures 10 titles on day two of Dualapalooza
The Owls captured 10 more titles on day two of the Dualapalooza, with five first-place finishes in each session.
Laure Prouvost’s immersive solo exhibition on display at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts
Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts is now showing the work of Laure Prouvost, an award-winning visual artist who has created an immersive experience as her first solo exhibition in Texas. The exhibition, “Above Front Tears Nest in South,” is on display through Dec. 14.
