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....
Rice welcomed hundreds of parents and family members to campus Oct. 3-4 for Families Weekend, a beloved annual tradition that gives loved ones a glimp...
Music, dance and culture filled Rice's Grand Hall during the annual Nuestra Herencia, an event sponsored by the Office of Public Affairs’ Multicultura...
Ahead of the Houston Methodist-Rice University Digital Health Institute Summit Oct.8, Rice News spoke with institute leadership about the institute’s ...
People, papers and presentations for Feb. 27, 2023
Lorraine Kung, a Rice Architecture master’s student, has received an Expanding Horizons Fellowship, which funds research-related travel that also benefits the communities where the research takes place.
Brandon Levin wins NSF CAREER Award
Brandon Levin, an assistant professor of mathematics at Rice University, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to pursue his research on major unsolved problems in number theory.
New electronic sound and light composition to debut at James Turrell Skyspace
“RETURN,” a brand-new sound and light composition by electronic music composer Yvette Janine Jackson, is set to debut at the James Turrell “Twilight Epiphany” Skyspace on Rice’s campus the evening of March 3.
President Reginald DesRoches joined HOOTS (the High Order of Owl Tailgating Society) in the Fondren Library colonnade for breakfast tacos Feb. 24. Proceeds from sales benefited the HOOTS scholarship fund.
MacArthur Fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman to give lecture at Rice March 7
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar P. Gabrielle Foreman will present a lecture focused on the history of 19th-century Black activism March 7 at Fondren Library.
Theory can sort order from chaos in complex quantum systems
Theory can sort ‘order’ from ‘chaos’ in complex quantum systems.
Rice senior Joseph Asfouri awarded prestigious Churchill Scholarship
Rice senior and electrical engineering and neuroscience student Joseph Asfouri is one of a select few American students to have been awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship at the University of Cambridge. Asfouri is Rice's second Churchill Scholar in nearly three decades.
Owls make their first splash in American Athletic Conference
The Rice Owls swimming team got an early taste of championship play in the American Athletic Conference last week, as the rest of the university’s programs prepare to make the leap later this year.
Rice acquires rare replica of William Blake printing press
Rice University is the only place in North America where you can find an authentic, functional replica of the star-wheel copper-plate rolling press that famous Romantic poet and artist William Blake used to produce his masterworks.
Hands-free tech adds realistic sense of touch in extended reality
Rice mechanical engineers and their collaborators have demonstrated a new hands-free approach to convey realistic haptic feedback in virtual reality.
