The finding, reported by The New York Times April 16, builds on generations of inquiry into whether life exists beyond Earth....
Tam Dao has been appointed Rice University’s first associate vice president of campus safety and research security. His first day in this role will be...
Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evalu...
At the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies’ 15th annual Undergraduate Design Competition, the future of global health innovation was on f...
Humanities Days offered Rice students the chance to present their research and creative work in panels, poster sessions and art presentations....
A team of Rice researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal ...
In a classroom filled with the sounds of singing, storytelling and lively conversation, young children at Rice University’s Oral and Written Language ...
As Rice prepares to celebrate the Class of 2025 at commencement May 9-10, Rice News is spotlighting a collection of standout seniors....
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) has introduced the 2025 Rice Innovation Fellows cohort, a dynamic group set to lead the f...
Rice hosted a timely and intimate conversation about the personal and political fallout that continues to ripple across the Gulf Coast....
Rice launches a first-of-its-kind collaboration: the Texas Linguistics Consortium....
More than 50 Rice University students, faculty and staff visited the Texas Capitol in Austin April 14 for a day of advocacy, connection and celebratio...
Rice Architecture’s fall lecture series takes singular look at pluralism
September 2, 2022
“Engaging Pluralism” is the theme for this fall’s Rice Architecture lecture series, set to begin Sept. 7.
People, papers and presentations for Sept. 6, 2022
September 2, 2022
Melodie French, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, has won the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award.
Research teams win Dunn Awards to fight cancer
September 1, 2022
Researchers at Rice University will team with counterparts at MD Anderson to improve cancer therapy with the support of seed funding from the John S. Dunn Foundation.
SU(N) matter is about 3 billion times colder than deep space
August 31, 2022
Physicists from Rice and Kyoto University are using the universe’s coldest fermions to explore quantum magnets.
Wearables take ‘logical’ step toward onboard control
August 30, 2022
Rice University engineers design fluidic logic into garments to help people with functional limitations perform tasks without electronic assistance.
Future of energy tech industry to be showcased at 19th annual Energy Tech Venture Forum
August 30, 2022
This year’s edition of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship Energy Tech Venture Forum, the premier venture capital and energy tech conference for connecting innovators, investors, corporations and the energy ecosystem, will feature more than 60 companies pitching their technologies to investors.
NSF grant supports ballot integrity research
August 29, 2022
Rice computer scientists are part of team that is studying the robustness and security of election systems that read hand-marked paper ballots.
ROBE Array could let small companies access popular form of AI
August 29, 2022
A breakthrough by Rice computer scientists could allow more labs and companies to use artificial intelligence.
New Rice Owls get taste of Houston and service-learning through Civic Immersion program
August 29, 2022
A few weeks prior to Rice’s weeklong new student orientation, dozens of incoming Owls took time out of their summers to immerse themselves in the city of Houston and the social justice issues local advocates are striving to address through the Civic Immersion program, one of the flagships of the university’s Center for Civic Leadership (CCL).
Pain, loss and hope for tomorrow: Fischer Duo celebrates 50 years of music with ‘2020 Visions’
August 29, 2022
A new album from longtime piano-cello duo Jeanne Kierman Fischer and Norman Fischer, both professors at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the twosome performing together with music expressing the pain of loss and the hope for a better tomorrow.