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.
New research, led by Brielle Bryan, offers a clearer view of what instability really looks like and why it should be treated as a driver of inequality...
Rice Business MBA programs are ranked among the top five in The Princeton Review’s Best Business Schools rankings for 2025. The school is No. 3 in the...
Responsible AI is foundational to achieving the strategic goals and vision set forth in Momentous, Rice’s 10-year strategic plan. To further empower t...
The American Conference has officially unveiled a dynamic rebrand aimed at clarifying its identity and positioning the league for the future....
Rice is now ranked 68th on the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2024, a list published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) ...
At Rice's Advanced Placement Summer Institute offered through the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, educators from across the globe gather each ...
A new concept shop in downtown Houston features healthy smoothies, acai bowls, parfaits and more — and it’s owned and operated by a Rice sophomore....
James F. Young, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at Rice, died May 28 in Hawaii. He was 81....
This year’s Summer Jam welcomed more than 1,900 people as they explored the Moody’s exhibitions “Figurative Histories” and “Collective Memories.”...
Can generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that create text, images and other content truly enhance employee creativity? A new paper published ...
Across the country and globe, Rice students are seizing hands-on roles with real stakes by interning in fields as diverse as offshore energy, arts edu...
Recent data shows that substance use of alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana, is declining among students in the Houston Independent School Distric...
Role of White House science advisers to be examined in Baker Institute webinar
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rice engineers and scientists and collaborators have discovered an efficient, one-step process for converting hydrogen sulfide gas into clean-burning hydrogen fuel.
People, papers and presentations for Oct. 31, 2022
Lydia Kavraki and Marcia O’Malley are among 35 scientists named Oct. 25 to a list of the world’s top women scientists in robotics, energy and science at the iROS Kyoto 2022 Conference in Japan.