Rice Business Plan Competition announces 2024 student startups
The 2024 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) has announced the 42 startups that will compete for more than $1 million in prizes Apr. 4-6 at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Rice’s Lovett College, the dorm lovingly nicknamed “the toaster,” will take a new name starting this fall. After Lovett College residents move into a ...
EyeDAR, a low-power millimeter-wave radar sensor roughly the size of an orange, could provide radar-equipped self-driving cars with critical inputs ab...
The Rice women's track and field team shattered records and made several podium visits to close the American Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Ala....
Rice shot 51.8% from the field, answering every Temple basket down the stretch, to earn an 80-74 victory Sunday afternoon from the Liacouras Center....
Ethan Sanders and three relievers combined to take a no-hitter into the ninth while the offense pile nine runs on 11 hits to down Harvard 9-0 on Sunda...
Rice will celebrate joy, resilience and community during its annual Pride Week, a campuswide tradition dedicated to highlighting and supporting the LG...
About 1 in 7 Houston-area residents say they know someone detained and potentially deported in 2025. There has also been a corresponding shift in atti...
Rice's SynthX Center is leading a new effort to improve how doctors detect and diagnose lymphatic diseases....
A technology designed to read gene activity in the brain from a simple blood test has now cleared a major translational hurdle....
Researchers at Rice have shown that hard-to-spot defects in a widely used two-dimensional insulator can trap electrical charges and locally weaken th...
On Feb. 17, the SSPEED Center welcomed Jed Anderson, founder and CEO of EnviroAI, for a lecture on environmental AI permitting. ...
The Rice women's basketball team was crowned the American Conference regular season champion after a 77-66 win at Temple Wednesday night at The Liacou...
Rice’s Division of Finance and Administration changes name
Rice’s Office of Finance and Administration has changed its name to the Division of Operations, Finance and Support.
Rice’s NROTC unit hosts car wash fundraiser March 2
The Rice Naval ROTC (NROTC) unit will host a car wash fundraiser on Saturday, March 2 from 9 a.m. to noon, located across from Rice Bikes. Funds raised from the event will benefit NROTC students and participating students from the University of Houston and Texas Southern University.
Rice physicist earns NSF CAREER Award to revolutionize quantum technology
Yonglong Xie, assistant professor of physics at Rice University, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The $888,555 grant over five years will support Xie’s research into harnessing magnons, quantum mechanical wavelike objects in magnetic materials, to create synthetic matter and develop next-generation quantum devices and sensors.
Fresh off its first visit to Houston in Fall 2023, The Concert Truck will return to Houston for more shows with students from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music March 5-7.
Rice’s Mark Jones talks Super Tuesday, Texas primary
Super Tuesday is less than a week away — March 5 — and voters in one U.S. territory and 15 states, including Texas , will head to the polls. Rice University political scientist Mark Jones is available to discuss what to expect from election day in the Lone Star State.
Following the racial and gender reckonings intensified by the #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo movements, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has been the subject of significant public debate and widespread media attention. A new book from Rice University psychologists outlines the state-of-the-art science that makes the case for DEI.
Rice breaks ground on new home for arts
Rice University hosted the groundbreaking ceremony for Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall Feb. 29, marking a significant milestone in the university’s commitment to advancing its growing arts program.
Rice lab finds better way to handle hard-to-recycle material
Rice researchers have developed a new, energy-efficient upcycling method to transform glass fiber-reinforced plastic (GFRP) into silicon carbide, widely used in semiconductors, sandpaper and other products.
Astronaut and alumna Peggy Whitson tapped as Rice’s 2024 commencement speaker
Alumna Peggy Whitson ’86, America’s most experienced astronaut, will deliver the address at Rice’s 111th commencement during the undergraduate ceremony May 4.