

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...

Remembering Jamey Rootes, head of Rice’s Hutchinson Leadership Initiative in Sport Analytics
Jamey Rootes, longtime president of the Houston Texans who was recently appointed to head the Hutchinson Leadership Initiative in Sport Analytics in Rice's Department of Sport Management, died Aug 21. He was 56.

Construction begins on Center for Human Performance
Leaders from Rice and Houston Methodist gathered at Tudor Fieldhouse Aug. 19 to celebrate the start of construction on the Houston Methodist-Rice University Center for Human Performance.

Rice rallies in a packed Tudor Fieldhouse for spirited celebration of Owl athletics
On the third day of O-Week 2022, Rice’s incoming class flocked to Tudor Fieldhouse for the Rice Rally, a pep rally to introduce new Owls to Rice athletics.

President DesRoches welcomes new students with barbecue and dance beats
Continuing a time-honored O-Week tradition, Rice President Reginald DesRoches hosted his first President’s Welcome dinner for all incoming students at Rice, held this year in Founder’s Court with the gorgeous backdrop of Lovett Hall’s iconic Sallyport.

As new students settled into campus during O-Week, another annual tradition introduced new faculty to the campus.

After a joyful O-Week 2022, student and staff leaders reflect on another rousing orientation
Rice O-Week 2022 wrapped up on a hot August Saturday after seven straight days of academic advising, introductions to all things Rice and more than a little fun along the way.

Brushing thin films onto electrodes preserves batteries
Brushing powdered phosphorus and sulfur into lithium anodes helps keep them from forming damaging dendrites in rechargeable batteries.

Biomedical, data science training wins new grant
The Rice University NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science wins a $4.16 million National Library of Medicine grant.

People, papers and presentations for Aug. 22, 2022
Eduardo Salas , the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor and chair of Rice’s Department of Psychological Sciences, was a finalist for the 2022 George R. Terry Book Award for his manuscript, “Teams That Work: The Seven Drivers of Team Effectiveness.”

New research from sociologists at Rice University and West Virginia University finds that almost 20% of Muslims report having been harassed by the police specifically because of their religion, more than four times the rate reported by people of other faiths.