Nine Rice faculty members received the 2025 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, which honors Rice’s top instructors based on votes from alumn...
Each year, Rice University honors members of its community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service. ...
Kasey Leigh Yearty has been named the 2025 recipient of the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching....
In a city defined by innovation and resilience, the Rice Water Technologies Entrepreneurship and Research (WaTER) Institute hosted its distinguished l...
The Owls men's tennis team won its first American Athletic Conference Championship after defeating the Memphis Tigers at the Leftwich Tennis Center Ap...
Rice will increase access by growing the university’s student body, marking an unprecedented growth trajectory that began earlier this decade. The exp...
Following Pope Francis’ death, Craig Considine, a senior lecturer in sociology at Rice, scholar of religion and interfaith dialogue is available to di...
As Earth Day approaches April 22, Rice University experts are available to provide insight into their research on a range of environmental topics....
The finding, reported by The New York Times April 16, builds on generations of inquiry into whether life exists beyond Earth....
Tam Dao has been appointed Rice University’s first associate vice president of campus safety and research security. His first day in this role will be...
Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evalu...
At the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies’ 15th annual Undergraduate Design Competition, the future of global health innovation was on f...
Faculty recognized with award for superior teaching
April 25, 2022
Nine faculty received the 2022 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, which honors top Rice instructors by votes from alumni who graduated within the past two, three and five years.
Rice composer’s ‘LiveWire’ combines music, dance and brain research in first-of-its-kind performance
April 25, 2022
What were they thinking?
Faculty, staff, students honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring, service
April 25, 2022
Each year, Rice honors members of the university community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service.
Assistant dean of finance and administration Birenbaum wins Elizabeth Gillis Award
April 25, 2022
Lisa Birenbaum, assistant dean for finance and administration in the School of Social Sciences, was named winner of the Elizabeth Gillis Award for Exemplary Service at President David Leebron’s spring town hall meeting April 21.
‘Awesome in every possible way’
April 25, 2022
To understand why Statistics’ Philip Ernst won this year’s George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Rice’s top teaching award, one need only read a few of the student comments in anonymous evaluations of his STAT 310 course.
Study: Chinese public’s opinion of US plummeted during Trump presidency
April 25, 2022
A survey of public opinion in China conducted by researchers at Rice University, the National University of Singapore and the University of British Columbia shows the country’s perceptions of the U.S. plummeted during the presidency of Donald Trump.
NSF-backed project to examine ‘electrifying everything’ in Houston, LA
April 25, 2022
A new National Science Foundation-funded study from a Rice University anthropologist will explore how two of the nation’s largest cities are embracing an electric future.
Baker Institute to host discussion with Nuevo León governor
April 25, 2022
Samuel García Sepúlveda, governor of Nuevo León, will speak about Mexico’s future at the Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy’s inaugural “Mexico 2025 and Beyond” lecture.
Rice University geobiologist tapped for Antarctic drilling mission
April 25, 2022
Rice geobiologist Jeanine Ash is participating in an Antarctic mission that’s studying climate change.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw hosts health care summit
April 25, 2022
Neuroengineer Jacob Robinson discussed research at U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s fourth annual health care summit at Rice.