Nameless Sound musicians performed an original score on Nanibah Chacon’s interactive installation following Danza Azteca Macuilxochitl's activation of...
Rice’s James Tour recently published an improved method to recover antimony from this electronic waste stream. ...
Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with career awards, showcasin...
The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act....
The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to bring research to reality and...
The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice has launched CoachRICE: Team Coaching, a new professional education program designed to help coaches, mana...
Graduate student Sayuri Jayawardena has started a Rice chapter of Lifelong Learning with Friends. ...
Scholars, curators and filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto gather at Rice to explore Black histories from Renaissance Italy to medieval Africa and Islamic world...
For the sixth fall in a row, Rice welcomed a new group of researchers to STaRT@Rice, giving emerging researchers both the skills and the support to gr...
Rice and the Houston Methodist Research Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding with LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Poli...
As the 2026-27 Aleko Endowed Artist, Julia Bullock curated an evening of song, chamber music and poetry celebrating the Harlem Renaissance....
Rice’s Yonglong Xie is one of 20 early-career scientists, mathematicians and engineers to receive a 2026 Packard Fellowship. ...
Rice hosts SUCCESS National Convening
The Supporting Undocumented Students’ College and Career Equity: Strategies for Success 2024 Convening was hosted by Rice University March 29-30. It was held in partnership with Immigrants Rising, the Higher Ed Immigration Portal, the President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration and TheDream.US.
Gov. Abbott details Texas’ power grid future at Baker Institute event
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spoke at the Texas Electricity Policy Summit hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy April 9.
AMPosium! celebrates 10 years of inquiry and learning
The ConocoPhillips Applied Math Program at Rice University celebrated 10 years of professional development and inquiry learning at its closing ceremony for the academic year, the AMPosium!
The ambitious double bill featured two operatic masterpieces: “Dido and Aeneas” composed by Henry Purcell and “The Rape of Lucretia” by Benjamin Britten.
On April 20, Rice Univeristy’s Shepherd School of Music will host the co-commission with DACAMERA, the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), the Los Angeles Opera and Aspen Music Festival and School.
Rice engineering students convert old truck into an electrical vehicle
Four teams of Rice engineering students converted a 1997 Chevy P30 delivery van into a fully electric vehicle in less than a year, using a combination of parts scavenged from out-of-use vehicles, custom-built elements and off-the-shelf items.
Rice faculty and alumni travel to path of totality for ‘Great Owl Eclipse’
As the moon completely eclipsed the sun April 8, more than 300 Rice University alumni, faculty and staff gathered on the lawn of the Flying L Ranch Resort in Bandera, Texas, to view the last total solar eclipse in the contiguous United States for the next two decades.
A decade of discovery: 10 years of Rice’s Archives of the Impossible
It all started with a conversation during a ride to the airport in December 2014. Jeffrey Kripal, Rice University’s J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, was wrapping up a trip to Berkeley, California, where he’d spent time with Jacques Vallée.
Owls flock to central quad to view solar eclipse
Hundreds of Rice students, faculty and staff could be seen sporting special solar eclipse glasses and gazing into the sky at the central quad during the afternoon April 8 as much of the campus gathered to view the historic solar eclipse.
Rice Global Paris Center hosts art history students, faculty during spring break trip
Rice’s Department of Art History embarked on a journey to Paris in March, marking the 10th anniversary of its annual spring break trip.
