Rice, DOE labs tackle knowledge gap in materials science research
Rice materials scientist Lane Martin and collaborators shed light on mesoscale structures in high-tech material with potential use in next-generation electronics, lasers and sensors.
Nameless Sound musicians performed an original score on Nanibah Chacon’s interactive installation following Danza Azteca Macuilxochitl's activation of...
Rice’s James Tour recently published an improved method to recover antimony from this electronic waste stream. ...
Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with career awards, showcasin...
The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act....
The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to bring research to reality and...
The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice has launched CoachRICE: Team Coaching, a new professional education program designed to help coaches, mana...
Graduate student Sayuri Jayawardena has started a Rice chapter of Lifelong Learning with Friends. ...
Scholars, curators and filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto gather at Rice to explore Black histories from Renaissance Italy to medieval Africa and Islamic world...
For the sixth fall in a row, Rice welcomed a new group of researchers to STaRT@Rice, giving emerging researchers both the skills and the support to gr...
Rice and the Houston Methodist Research Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding with LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Poli...
As the 2026-27 Aleko Endowed Artist, Julia Bullock curated an evening of song, chamber music and poetry celebrating the Harlem Renaissance....
Rice’s Yonglong Xie is one of 20 early-career scientists, mathematicians and engineers to receive a 2026 Packard Fellowship. ...
Rice welcomes Charles Murphy as executive director of admission
Rice’s Office of Admission is bolstering its recruitment and admission efforts by hiring Charles Murphy as executive director of admission. He will start Aug. 1.
Rice’s Sylvia Dee working to improve projections of extreme droughts, floods
Rice climate scientist Sylvia Dee has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the agency’s most prestigious early career honor.
Rice alums reflect on Olympic experiences: Lennie Waite
Lennie Waite, an Olympian and former Rice track and field star, talks about her experiences during the 2016 Olympics.
Students find inspiration at Tapia STEM Camps
The Tapia STEM Camps, founded by and named after Richard Tapia, aims to encourage students from underrepresented communities to pursue STEM careers.
In the minutes before the Orchestre National de France prepared to play Edith Piaf’s “L’Hymne à l’Amour” to close out the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, music director Cristian Măcelaru had a moment of confusion.
Breaking MAD: Generative AI could break the internet
Rice researchers have found that training successive generations of generative artificial intelligence models on synthetic data gives rise to self-consuming feedback loops.
Rice math camps prepare high school students to stand out in their upcoming math courses
Local students are learning math and having fun while doing so at the Rice University School Mathematics Project Preparing for Success programs.
Unlearning Paris offers new perspectives on iconic city
This summer, Rice brought back the innovative Unlearning Paris course at its Paris Center, providing students an opportunity to deconstruct and critically analyze the historic city of Paris.
Rice is top destination for Mexican students who receive Fulbright awards
Seven master’s and Ph.D. Fulbright recipients from Mexico will study at Rice this fall, the most of any university and nearly double the number of any other university, including Rice’s Association of American Universities peers.