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...
Rice researchers, in collaboration with international partners, have developed the first eco-friendly technology to rapidly capture and destroy toxic ...
Whether it’s a journalist unpacking democracy, a historian reframing medicine or an artist probing the legacies of empire, these lectures invite the c...
The Water Research Foundation recently presented Lauren Stadler, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice, with the 2025 Pau...
Rice U.’s Songtao Chen wins NSF CAREER Award
Songtao Chen, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to advance the development of quantum networks by leveraging point defects in silicon.
Owls officially soar into American Athletic Conference
Rice Athletics officially joined the American Athletic Conference July 1 and kicked off the “Ascend Together” campaign.
Ruth Simmons joins 'CBS Mornings' to discuss affirmative action ruling
Ruth Simmons, President’s Distinguished Fellow at Rice, joined “CBS Mornings” on Friday, June 30, to discuss the impact the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action will have and how schools can continue to work towards diverse student bodies.
Rice remains committed to diverse student body despite Supreme Court ruling
Like many other colleges and universities, Rice has closely followed the affirmative action cases before the Supreme Court and begun to prepare for various outcomes.
Study: Pandemic FOMO had mental health consequences for older adults
During the COVID-19 pandemic, fear of missing out (FOMO) on social activities may have negatively affected the mental health of adults at high risk of serious disease, according to a new study from Rice University and Baylor University.
President gives first-year update, discusses upcoming academic year
As we approach the one-year mark of my presidency, I want to share a summary and update on important developments that have taken place over the past 12 months and speak to my plans for the coming academic year.
Rice University’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has announced Kristen Schlatre as its new assistant dean for professional and corporate programs.
NeuWS camera answers ‘holy grail problem’ in optical imaging
Engineers from Rice and the University of Maryland have created technology that could allow cameras to "see" through fog, smoke, driving rain, murky water, skin, muscle and other light-scattering obstructions.
Electrochemical device captures carbon dioxide at the flick of a switch
New carbon capture technology developed by Rice University engineers can generate a continuous, high-purity carbon dioxide stream from diluted, or low-concentration, gas streams using only electricity and a water-and-oxygen-based reaction.
New enzyme could aid anticancer drug development
Retracing nature’s steps, Rice University engineer Xue Gao and her team mapped out the full series of enzyme-powered reactions a marine fungus uses to produce a complex molecule with anticancer properties. In the process, the Gao lab uncovered the first fungal enzyme of its kind known to break an amide bond.
