Gyu-Boong Jo has been selected for the 2025 cohort of the Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative....
After winning the Bayou City Collegiate Classic last week, the Rice Men's Golf team made history, earning co-champion honors at the Trinity Forest Inv...
The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC), headquartered at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, brought leading prog...
Researchers led by James Tour have developed a new way to extract lithium from salty water....
Rice has named 10 graduate students as recipients of the 2025-26 Chevron Energy Graduate Fellowships, a program created through a partnership between ...
One year after launching its ambitious 10-year strategic plan, Momentous: Personalized Scale for Global Impact, Rice is already seeing the transformat...
Rice researchers, in collaboration with international partners, have developed the first eco-friendly technology to rapidly capture and destroy toxic ...
Whether it’s a journalist unpacking democracy, a historian reframing medicine or an artist probing the legacies of empire, these lectures invite the c...
The Water Research Foundation recently presented Lauren Stadler, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice, with the 2025 Pau...
The mural, on view in the Moody’s Flex Studio, depicts a textured hill made of clay layered with papel picado figures that recall deities of both Cath...
Bringing together scholars across disciplines and national contexts, the event explored how emerging technologies affect reproductive health, ethical ...
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede discusses role with the Nobel Committee for Chemistry....
Brasil@Rice program celebrates a decade of international connections
In the fall of 2022, Arlei Silva, assistant professor of computer science, was thrilled to have been named a recipient of one of the prestigious “100,000 Strong In The Americas” research grants , awarded to projects that involve collaboration between universities in the United States and those in Central and South America.
An upcoming event from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy will examine how the key to fighting climate change lies in the developing world.
People, papers and presentations for March 6, 2023
Ed Emmett, Baker Institute Fellow in Energy and Transportation Policy, and Ruth Simmons, who was recently named a Rice President’s Distinguished Fellow, were named Houston Independent School District (HISD) Centennial Alumni Impact honorees at HISD’s State of the Schools event March 3.
Rodeo roundup with Reggie and Paula
Rice Owls dusted off their Stetsons and cowboy boots and dressed in their Western best to celebrate Rice Night at the Rodeo March 5.
On Feb. 24 and 25, Rice University composition professor Anthony Brandt collaborated with University of Houston professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal and Performing Arts Houston to premiere his newly commissioned chamber piece “Diabelli 200” at the Wortham Center.
An interactive sculpture paying tribute to African American history and the ongoing struggle for racial justice will be on display at Rice University throughout the month of March.
Owls pick up top 25 win in Shriners Children's College Classic
A Jack Riedel home run was the deciding factor in Rice’s 3-2 victory over No. 24-ranked Texas Tech University in the opening game of the Shriners Children's College Classic March 3 at Minute Maid Park.
Migrant caravan coverage contributes to poor immigration policy, says Baker Institute report
Both punitive and permissive immigration policies have done little to deter migrants from crossing the U.S. border, and media coverage of “migrant caravans” has contributed to stopgap policies, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice U. hosts international women’s STEM research program
Rice University is host to a women’s leadership and STEM research program that welcomes students from Japan and Taiwan for an immersive five-week internship.
Taking care of your teeth could help prevent chronic joint pain
Rice scientist spots clue in discarded data that sets research on the right track.
