A team of researchers from Rice, University of New Mexico, University of Utah and the University of Texas at Dallas have discovered a sharp, volatile-...
Rice and MoreThan Capital are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration aimed at fostering innovation and entrepreneurship....
Rice’s Wiess Tabletop Theatre will present “Company” at 8 p.m. April 17-19 in the Wiess Commons. The show is free to Rice students, and others can att...
Dominic Boyer, professor of anthropology at Rice awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation....
Rice’s Housing and Dining staff were celebrated at an appreciation event hosted by the Hispanic Association for Cultural Enrichment at Rice (HACER), r...
A study led by Rice's Peter Wolynes introduces RibbonFold, a new computational method capable of predicting the structures of amyloids....
Rice’s radio station, KTRU, recently hosted its 33rd annual Outdoor Show. The show is a free, all-day music festival traditionally held in the Central...
Before audience members took their seats for the sold-out performances of “The Ghosts of Versailles” at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music, they were tre...
Rice will host its annual appreciation event to celebrate staff accomplishments at 9 a.m. April 23 at Tudor Fieldhouse. The gathering will include rem...
As journalists prepare to cover Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, Rice offers a unique resource rooted in the stories of one ...
Intero Biosystems — a life science company that has developed the first cell-derived human “minigut” replicating cell types, spatial structure and fun...
Rice's Owl Edge Externship Program offers students a unique opportunity to explore various career paths through hands-on, short-term learning experien...
Molecular machines could treat fungal infections
February 1, 2023
Rice scientists show that light-activated nanoscale drills can kill pathogenic fungi.
Two Rice University professors elected AAAS fellows
January 31, 2023
Rice University professors Thomas Killian and Marek Kimmel are elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a distinction that honors scientists, engineers and innovators whose efforts on behalf of science and its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished.
Persistence is crucial in the classroom, new reports from Kinder Institute’s HERC show
January 31, 2023
Possessing lots of persistence leads to better academic outcomes for Houston Independent School District students, according to a newly released series of reports from the Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), a research center within Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Rice lab uncovers dynamics behind protein crucial in breast cancer
January 30, 2023
Just as a puppeteer moves a puppet by manipulating its strings, estrogen receptors, which play a crucial role in breast cancer, work in similar ways when they facilitate the interaction between hormones and DNA, according to Rice scientists.
First event in new Humanities lecture series examines Jainism, comparative religion
January 30, 2023
The School of Humanities, in collaboration with the departments of Transnational Asian Studies and Religion, is set to host Rice’s first-ever Bhagwaan Mahavir Lecture in Jain Studies Feb. 3.
New ‘Narrative Threads’ exhibition at the Moody excites with dazzling textiles
January 30, 2023
“Why is it that artists would be working in a very modern moment with a very historic material?” asked Alison Weaver, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director of the Moody, in reference to the recently opened exhibition “Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today,” which showcases 40 fiber-based artworks from 22 artists based across the globe.
January 30, 2023
STAT’s Hopkins co-authors National Academies report. CAREER Awards keep coming. DOE funds NEWT desalination research.
Chinese prefer Europeans to Americans, but the feeling isn’t mutual
January 30, 2023
People in China have more favorable opinions of Europeans than Americans, but the feeling is not mutual, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University, the National University of Singapore and the University of British Columbia.
Balancing spousal loss and career is a one-two punch for health of widowed individuals
January 30, 2023
Coping with the loss of a spouse while dealing with the 9-to-5 grind can take a serious toll on the health of widows or widowers, according to new research from the Biobehavioral Mechanisms Explaining Disparities Lab (BMED) at Rice University.
Rice's Danielle King named 2023 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star
January 30, 2023
Danielle King, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at Rice University, has been named a 2023 APS Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science.