Recent federal developments concerning student visa processing have created increasing uncertainty for many international students. members of Rice le...
The program is designed to deepen students’ fluency in a language essential to the operatic tradition....
The Rice community gathered May 16 to honor a year of accomplishments in the School Literacy and Culture program, part of the Susanne M. Glasscock Sch...
Rice hosted scientists from more than 40 institutions for the 2025 U.S. CMS collaboration meeting....
The program trains students to both analyze and produce media across formats, empowering them to become not just smarter consumers of content but purp...
Six undergraduates from Rice University’s Wiess School of Natural Sciences have been awarded research fellowships as part of the Russell Shearn Moody ...
Community partners across Houston are seeing meaningful results from a unique research partnership with Rice University students....
A research team led by physicists Ming Yi and Emilia Morosan has developed a new material with unique electronic properties that could enable more pow...
Rice University anthropologists examine the societal consequences of global glacier loss in a commentary published in Science....
Martínez joins a distinguished list of honorees that includes fellow and former appointees Norah Jones, Miranda Lambert, Alecia Lawyer, Kevin Prufer a...
David Satterfield, director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, sat down with Ruth Simmons, the President’s Distinguished Fellow a...
In a time of escalating climate risks, crumbling infrastructure and ballooning industrial demand, understanding how water and energy intertwine has ne...
US patents chief to discuss research and innovation at Rice U. event
March 29, 2023
The commissioner for patents of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Vaishali Udupa, will headline an event April 5 on how to transform research into innovation, and ways in which universities and her office — working separately and together — can pick up the pace.
Shepherd School spring opera ‘L'incoronazione di Poppea,’ set for April 14 and 16
March 28, 2023
A shameless quest for power through any means necessary is the focus of Monteverdi’s “L'incoronazione di Poppea” (The Coronation of Poppea), the spring opera production from the Rice University Shepherd School of Music’s Opera and Chamber Orchestra.
Higgs, Ramos elected AIMBE Fellows
March 28, 2023
Engineering’s Fred Higgs and Renata Ramos have been elected fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Eco-efficient cement could pave the way to a greener future
March 28, 2023
Rice U. scientists develop process to remove toxic heavy metals from coal fly ash, making for greener, stronger concrete.
Rice to honor MacArthur-winning professor Kiese Laymon April 10
March 27, 2023
Rice President Reginald DesRoches, Provost Amy Dittmar and School of Humanities Dean Kathleen Canning invite all members of the Rice community to a special reception at Cohen House April 10 to formally honor English professor Kiese Laymon, recipient of a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship.
Rice's 2003 baseball team gathers for 20-year championship anniversary celebration
March 27, 2023
Rice Athletics held a reunion event dubbed “A Championship Celebration” March 24 in honor of the 20-year anniversary of the 2003 baseball team’s national title, which was clinched with a 2-1 series victory over Stanford University.
Rice’s Englebretson and Fischer-Baum present at AAAS symposium
March 27, 2023
Rice University’s Robert Englebretson, an associate professor of linguistics, and Simon Fischer-Baum, an associate professor of psychological sciences, organized “Braille and the Reading Sciences: Diversity Through Research and Engagement,” a symposium at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.
People, papers and presentations for March 27, 2023
March 27, 2023
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Archives Foundation, which works to generate financial and creative support for National Archives exhibitions, public programs and educational initiatives.
James Chappell wins NSF CAREER Award
March 27, 2023
Rice bioscientist James Chappell has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop RNA programming methods that can improve human health and the environment.
Rice hosts 40th annual Victor Lopez Classic
March 27, 2023
Rice University hosted the 40th annual Victor Lopez Classic this past weekend, featuring the Owls men’s and women’s track & field teams, as well as local high school teams.