Rice researchers develop innovative battery recycling method
A research team at Rice led by James Tour is tackling the environmental issue of efficiently recycling lithium ion batteries amid their increasing use.
Ten years after a group of Rice students came together to work for change, four alumni returned to campus to reflect on what it took to transform thei...
Rice’s 2026 Religious Literacy Series, hosted by the Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance, welcomed 82 educators, non...
The Rice Center for Quantum Materials hosted a workshop on quantum materials synthesis at the Rice Global Paris Center, bringing together global resea...
Rice has elected five new members to its board of trustees. Dr. Barbara Jenkins Gibbs ‘73, John V. Jaggers ‘73, Robert “Rob” Kaplan, Akilah Mance ‘05 ...
As Houston prepares to welcome the world for the FIFA World Cup 2026, Rice students are helping make it happen....
Rice’s Qimiao Si collaborated with researchers from TU Wien in an experiment that showed quantum entanglement of a quantum critical metal....
Kinder Institute's 2026 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report finds many residents are spending more of their income on housing. ...
An interdisciplinary team of Rice researchers has uncovered previously unknown relationships between bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts, offerin...
Christina Tringides is the recipient of the highly prestigious Pew Biomedical Scholar award....
STEM-Letics, a summer camp hosted by Rice’s Center for STEM Engagement and Rice Athletics, introduces students in grades three through five to science...
Amid the energy, music and sea of soccer fans at FIFA Fan Festival, Rice University is giving visitors from around the world a chance to experience a ...
The FIFA World Cup has arrived in Houston, and Rice is helping bring the excitement to fans across campus and the city....
‘Learning simply for the love of it’: Registration opens for Rice’s continuing studies courses
Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has released its course guide for fall 2024.
Foam fluidics showcase Rice lab’s creative approach to circuit design
Rice engineers have shown that something as simple as the flow of air through open-cell foam can be used to perform digital computation, analog sensing and combined digital-analog control in soft textile-based wearable systems.
A group of students from Rice’s School of Architecture and George R. Brown School of Engineering visited Barcelona, Spain, in June as part of a global “Building Ecologies” workshop.
The Global Glacier Casualty List will be the first platform for tracking disappeared and critically endangered glaciers around the world and documenting their stories.
Alumna of Rice’s Shepherd School selected for Met Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program
Tessa McQueen, a 2024 master’s graduate of Rice’s Shepherd School of Music, has been selected as one of 14 participants for the Metropolitan Opera’s esteemed Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
NSF-funded conference organized by Rice linguistics professor to promote equity in STEM research
“Access and Equity in STEM: Disability and Innovation in Fundamental Research” was the first in a series of hybrid events attended by researchers from around the country and NSF staff members.
Rice students explore ‘new perspective on problem-solving’ in Paris summer program
A group of Rice students experienced firsthand how travel can enhance education during a two-week trip to Paris as part of the international Summer Experience in Engineering Design program, or iSEED.
‘Vibrant part of cultural life in Houston’: Summer Jam transforms Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts
The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice hosted its annual Summer Jam July 20, celebrating community and the arts.
Rice chemist James Tour has led a research team to develop a rapid electrothermal mineralization process, which in seconds can remediate the accumulation of synthetic chemicals that can contaminate soil and the environment.