The Rice University Board of Trustees and Rice President Reginald DesRoches announced the release of the final report from the university’s Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice in a message to the university community Oct. 6.
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...
Frank Klaus Tittel, a physicist whose career paralleled the rise of modern laser technology and who helped build Rice’s reputation in laser spectrosc...
Art teachers, artists and comics enthusiasts gathered at Rice University Feb. 20 for Teaching Comics, a one-day symposium exploring how comics can fun...
Nearly 700 prospective graduate students, current scholars, faculty and staff gathered at the Houston Museum of Natural Science for Rice University’s ...
Martono, a second-year master’s student in violin performance, won the title of Miss Chinatown Houston 2025, her first-ever pageant....
Undergraduates at Rice are digging into real, possible wrongful conviction cases this semester, examining evidence to bring renewed attention to indiv...
Rice President Reginald DesRoches was honored with a Community Trailblazer Award Feb. 19 by the city of Houston’s controller Chris Hollins during his ...
Rice commends Stacy Mosely for 14 years of service. As executive senior associate athletic director/senior woman administrator, Mosely maintains admin...
Tibetan Buddhists to build sand mandala at Rice’s Moody Center
Monks from the Gaden Shartse monastery in India will visit Rice University Oct. 16-20 to create a sand mandala with accompanying rituals and lecture at the Moody Center for the Arts.
Robotic cup helps wheelchair users stay hydrated
Rice undergraduate engineering students Thomas Kutcher and Rafe Neathery designed a robotic device that enables people with limited mobility to stay hydrated without caretaker help.
Interactive workshop at Fondren Library encourages scientific spontaneity
A science engagement workshop held at Rice’s Fondren Library Sept. 28 showed how scientific and technical information can be communicated through creativity and fun.
Susann Glenn honored by Rice Board of Trustees
Rice’s Board of Trustees recognized Susann Glenn of the Office for Finance of Administration for her 18 years of service and accomplishments in multiple initiatives throughout her career with the university.
Rice SIMS Workshop draws more than 130 from a dozen countries
More than 130 people from 48 institutions in a dozen countries attended the 2023 Rice University Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Workshop at the Bioscience Research Collaborative.
Energy and foreign policy experts will examine the lessons learned from the 1973 oil embargo and their renewed relevance for today’s energy crises — triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the risks presented by climate change — for countries, policymakers, companies and the public on Oct. 17 at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Interdisciplinary Rice team tackles the future of semiconductors
An interdisciplinary team of Rice University scientists has won a $1.9 million National Science Foundation grant for research on materials that could serve as the basis for next-generation energy-efficient computing devices.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Rice’s campus Oct. 3 to discuss foreign policy and diplomacy at an event held at the Shepherd School of Music’s Stude Concert Hall.
Rice alum Louis Brus awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry
Rice alumnus Louis Brus (’65) has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Moungi Bawendi and Alexei Ekimov for the “discovery and development of quantum dots.”