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 ...
CALEA’S Public Comment Portal is part of RUPD’s effort to maintain national accreditation
A public portal for community comments about the Rice University Police Department (RUPD) is now open as part of an annual inspection conducted by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies in an effort for RUPD to maintain national accreditation.
At work, bosses express religion more than subordinates, study says
How much individuals express their religious beliefs in the workplace depends on how much power they hold there, according to new research from the Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance’s Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University.
Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary and assistant to the president, will deliver the 2023 commencement address at Rice University during the undergraduate commencement ceremony the evening of May 6. All 2023 Rice graduates along with their families and guests and all members of the university community are welcome to attend the ceremony at Rice Stadium.
Lauren Stadler has won an NSF CAREER Award
Engineering’s Lauren Stadler has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to improve wastewater treatment by harnessing the power of microbiomes.
Owls 2023 football schedule released
The American Athletic Conference released its 2023 football schedule this week, and Rice will make its conference debut on Sept. 23, 2023, on the road against USF and hosts ECU one week later in the Owls' first AAC home game.
Rice team begins ambitious quantum entanglement research
A Rice research team has begun an ambitious three-year project to see quantum entanglement among billions of particles in a solid material thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the Keck Foundation.
Rice U.’s Taiyun Chi wins NSF CAREER Award
Taiyun Chi, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to research the development of a high-performance neural interface and a noninvasive deep-brain-stimulation system.
During Black History Month, artists work with historians to tell story of slave trade
Daniel Domingues, associate professor of African history and co-manager of SlaveVoyages, joined forces with Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts Feb. 18 to host a workshop to help create a new visual identity for the award-winning online database of the global slave trade.
U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt visits Rice
On Feb. 13, U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt visited the Rice campus to meet with President Reginald DesRoches and members of the Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Energy Studies.
Rice joins neutrino megaproject. Engineering launches energy transition initiative. McHugh lands cancer research grant. Keck Foundation funds quantum research. West named Cottrell Scholar.
