Rice lands at No. 17 in latest US News rankings
Rice ranked 17th among the nation’s top universities in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook.
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...
New Rice leadership members greeted during reception
More than 100 members of the Rice community gathered at Brockman Hall for Opera Sept. 15 to welcome a slate of the university’s newest leadership team members: Stephen Bayer, vice president for development and alumni relations; Melinda Spaulding Chevalier, vice president for public affairs; and Tommy McClelland, vice president and director of athletics.
The Ralph S. O’Connor building for Engineering and Science was officially inaugurated yesterday with a ceremony commemorating the late Rice University trustee whose generosity helped make it a reality.
President’s Distinguished Fellow Ruth Simmons to discuss her book
Rice University will host a conversation with Ruth Simmons, a President’s Distinguished Fellow, at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, in Rice’s Brockman Hall for Opera.
Rice Theatre to present Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’ with performances opening Oct. 20
Rice Theatre is bringing Agatha Christie’s longest-running play “The Mousetrap” to campus.
Making hydrogen from waste plastic could pay for itself
Rice University researchers have found a way to harvest hydrogen from plastic waste using a low-emissions method that generates graphene as a by-product, which could help offset production costs.
Rice President Reginald DesRoches and Texas Medical Center President and CEO Bill McKeon joined other university leaders Sept. 12 at a ceremony that simultaneously marked the start of the Rice Biotech Launch Pad and the 61st anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech at Rice Stadium announcing the Apollo moonshot program.
Past participant Carolina Gonzalez returns to STaRT@Rice as a working professional
Back for its third year, the STaRT@Rice program (short for Statistical Training and Research Techniques at Rice) will be held on Oct. 6-9, 2023 at Rice University.
New Rice memory research examines how we remember faces
The common struggle of remembering a face or a name gets more difficult as we age, and new research from Rice University aims to figure out why.
Rice Business rises in MBA rankings
Rice Business jumped ten spots to rank No. 19 on Bloomberg Businessweek’s Full-Time MBA ranking for 2023-2024.