Weaving together reflections on colonization and her family’s experiences in California, Cherríe Moraga recounted how over centuries the violence of c...
Mia X, known as the “Mother of Southern Hip-Hop,” made history once again by becoming the first woman inducted into Rice's Hip Hop Archival Colle...
Eight Rice student startups presented their ventures at the 2024 Summer Venture Studio Accelerator (SVS) Demo Day hosted by Rice’s Liu Idea Lab for In...
The installation of new temporary artwork in the Moody Center for the Arts’ Tent Series presents an intriguing dialogue between architecture, social e...
A team of Rice engineering students was awarded the top prize in a prestigious national design competition for their innovative medical device for uro...
We are excited to announce significant news regarding our residential college system. Lovett College, one of our foundational colleges named after the...
Rice and Baylor College of Medicine have received $2.8 million from the NIH for research on reducing inflammation and lung damage in acute respiratory...
For the next two years, 120 Division I Rice athletes will be part of a concussion study with Houston Methodist researchers to identify reliable and no...
When Robert Howell contemplates the future of artificial intelligence, he foresees a world where an app might guide your moral decisions just as Googl...
Rice experts John Diamond and Zach Bethune are available to comment on the Fed's decision to cut interest rates by a half percentage point....
Rice’s Grand Hall was boisterously filled with students, music and festivities as the university began its many celebrations as part of Hispanic Herit...
With last week’s unveiling of Rice University’s redesigned Academic Quadrangle came the introduction of a few new residents – the 42 species of plants...
The Way I See It: Black community, the moment to value ourselves is now
I thought Derek Chauvin would be acquitted. I’ve never been happier to be wrong, but like the racial tapestry called the United States, I am torn.
President’s town hall set for April 14
President David Leebron will host a virtual town hall meeting at 2 p.m. April 14.
Rice mourns retired RUPD officer Ruth Maxwell
Ruth Maxwell, a longtime Rice University Police Department officer who retired last year, died June 22. She was 59.
Quantum dots keep atoms spaced to boost catalysis
Rice engineers use graphene quantum dots to trap transition metals for high atom loading in single atom catalysis.
Housing in Houston: Tough times for tenants, would-be homeowners
HOUSTON – (June 22, 2021) – Houston's share of homeowners is dropping, and a growing number of renters interested in buying a home find themselves shut out of the market, according to a new report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Family and friends of the Class of 2020 graduates have their cameras at the ready as Duncan College processes through the Sallyport — the final college of the day to make the march before the May 15 commencement ceremony that evening. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow)
Rice updates COVID-19 policies following CDC guidance
Nightside radio could help reveal exoplanet details
Rice scientists enhance models that could be used to detect magnetosphere activity on exoplanets. The Rice model adds data from nightside activity that could increase signals by at least an order of magnitude.
Girls in grades 5-9 visited the Rice campus April 17 for the Reach for the Stars STEM Festival. The students interacted with hands-on exhibits, workshops, a jobs panel and a keynote speech by Kirsten Siebach, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, about the Mars Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity helicopter. (Photos by Jeff Fitlow.)