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. ...
Global collaboration takes root in Paris: Rice and PSL forge research ties
Rice University and Université Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) convened leading researchers for a daylong summit May 14 at the Rice Global Paris Center, following the official launch of a strategic research partnership between the two institutions.
Rice At Large spring issue now available online
Rice At Large, the quarterly newsletter that showcases Rice University’s outreach programs, is now available online.
Experts discuss immigration as a political tool at Baker Institute event
The future of immigration and its relationship with this year’s election cycle was explored by experts at a May 14 event hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Speakers from academia, media, legislature and immigration organizations surveyed how shifting policies have reshaped migration to the U.S.-Mexico border and discussed prospects for immigration reform.
Swedish delegation visits Rice campus with eye on space exploration
A delegation from Sweden visited Rice to forge new pathways for collaboration and growth in space education and research.
Rice senior design team selected as finalists for CASS Student Design Competition
A senior design team from Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering was recently selected as one of four finalists for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Student Design Competition.
Rice researchers stride to unlock mysteries of human development
A research team from Rice University led by Aryeh Warmflash has made strides in understanding the processes that guide human embryonic development. The group’s findings were published in the scientific journal Cells Systems May 15.
Leading the humanities with humanity
In Kathleen Canning ’s six years as dean of Rice University’s School of Humanities , she has made 50 faculty hires, overseen a faculty of 170, strengthened eight departments and managed 15 centers and programs, including several established under her leadership.
7 selected for Rice alumni board; president-elect and alumni trustee announced
Seven alumni have been selected to serve on Rice University’s Association of Rice Alumni (ARA) Board of Directors: Sacha Abinader, Paula Desel, Tawfik Jarjour, Wayne Hale, June Marshall, Wanda Pan and John Sneider. They begin their three-year terms July 1, when David Leal becomes president-elect of the ARA and Cathryn Rodd Selman becomes an alumni trustee.
‘A beacon in the civil rights movement’: Remembering Rev. William Lawson
At the heart of Rice University’s campus lies The William A. Lawson Grove, a tribute to an esteemed civil rights champion and cherished community leader. Today, the Rice community mourns the passing of Rev. Lawson, who was 95 years old.
Rice’s Mamouras wins NSF CAREER Award
Konstantinos Mamouras, assistant professor of computer science at Rice, has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to create software tools to support the development of advanced Internet of Things applications.
