Rice took center stage at the inaugural South by Southwest London, bringing Texas-sized ambition, pathbreaking innovation and global vision to one of ...
Acute myeloid leukemia remains one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of blood cancer, even as treatments have advanced in recent years. ...
Through color, texture, memory and vision, the exhibition invites viewers into an aesthetic dialogue that interrogates the stories we inherit and the ...
A team of six Rice students developed a device that holds and stabilizes an intracardiac echocardiography catheter during heart procedures, allowing ...
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rice is proud to announce that HEXAspec, a cutting-edge spinout from the lab of professor Jun ...
Rice's Yonglong Xie has been recognized for his innovation in quantum phenomena....
The project titled “Living Memory: An Oral History Project to Strengthen Native Sovereignty in Texas” began in fall 2024 as part of the Center for Civ...
Houston Mayor John Whitmire and Rice Baker Institute of Public Policy fellow Ed Emmett discussed Houston’s challenges and opportunities to a packed ho...
The mission, centered on Viva Technology 2025, will include a welcome reception at Rice's European hub for research, collaboration and innovation....
In a corner of Rice’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK), a group of students is tackling a big idea: revolutionizing maritime transport with sw...
The Business Collaborative for Brain Health, an alliance of private sector partners developing effective solutions to optimize cognitive health, hoste...
While national narratives have often painted the humanities as a risky investment, Rice’s English program offers a clear rebuttal....
Rice’s Eduardo Salas receives lifetime achievement award from Association for Psychological Science
November 2, 2022
Eduardo Salas , department chair and a professor of psychological sciences at Rice University, has received the coveted James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in recognition of his outstanding career achievements.
November 2, 2022
The largest crowd in the history of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) Conference gathered last week in Las Vegas to celebrate creativity and innovation in university-based entrepreneurship education.
Role of White House science advisers to be examined in Baker Institute webinar
November 2, 2022
The evolution of science policy and expert advice to the White House will be examined in a Nov. 9 webinar featuring a digitized collection of materials related to the history of presidential scientific advising.
October 31, 2022
Excited children and their families from surrounding communities were welcomed to Rice campus Oct. 29 for Project Pumpkin, the university’s annual event full of Halloween crafts and fun for all ages.
Owl Together 2022 — celebrating Rice’s past with an eye to the future
October 31, 2022
This year’s Owl Together festivities kicked off with the annual Rice Faculty Keynote Lecture Oct. 28. Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities and author of “American Moonshot,” spoke to alumni in Tudor Fieldhouse about John F. Kennedy and the race to space of the 1960s, just a few weeks after the 60th anniversary of JFK’s famous speech at Rice Stadium in 1962.
Humanities NOW event series fosters faculty conversation with Rice community
October 31, 2022
It’s the fifth semester of the Humanities NOW lecture series, started by associate dean of undergraduate programs and special projects Fay Yarbrough ’97 to highlight the wide array of expertise within Rice’s humanities faculty by enlisting them to lead thoughtful conversations with students, faculty and staff about their work and their perspectives
Rice partners with Greentown Labs to create student-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem in Houston
October 31, 2022
Greentown Labs, the largest “climatetech” startup incubator in North America, announced the launch of the Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy (TEX-E) with Rice University and other leading university entrepreneurship centers.
Expanding immigration work permits recognizes essential jobs, says Baker Institute report
October 31, 2022
Expanding work permits for undocumented immigrants could fix the United States immigration system’s “large, overlooked and often invisible crack” that fails to account for essential workers, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Hispanic alumni celebrate 50 years of tradition at Rice University
October 31, 2022
The Hispanic Association for Cultural Enrichment at Rice (HACER) is commemorating its 50th anniversary with a gala at the River Oaks Country Club Nov. 5.
New catalyst can turn smelly hydrogen sulfide into a cash cow
October 31, 2022
Rice engineers and scientists and collaborators have discovered an efficient, one-step process for converting hydrogen sulfide gas into clean-burning hydrogen fuel.