Rice funds new research collaborations with Houston Methodist
Rice and Houston Methodist have awarded seed grants for research in robotics, imaging, cardiovascular bioengineering, and psychological and behavioral health.
Rice is fostering sustainable water and energy solutions by convening leaders across industry, policy and research to confront one of the most pressin...
Rice junior Ankhi Banerjee spent 10 weeks over the summer building a data-analysis pipeline to help NASA Johnson Space Center scientists track microbe...
Rice has entered into a research partnership with Locksley Resources Ltd....
Semyon Malamud, senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute and associate professor of finance at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, will host ...
To recognize a growing investment in the visual arts and creative writing, Rice’s School of Humanities is changing its name to the School of Humanitie...
The Rice Owls defeated Charlotte 28-17 in its American Conference opener on Thursday night....
For decades, researchers believed that Homo habilis — the earliest known species in our genus — marked the moment humans rose from prey to predators, ...
Researchers led by Rice’s Yong Lin Kong have developed a soft but strong metamaterial that can be controlled remotely to rapidly transform its size an...
Rice scientists’ custom, large-scale neurorecording array sheds light on how the brain keeps the world looking familiar. ...
The Shepherd School of Music’s newest faculty members are already making their mark on Houston’s vibrant arts scene. ...
Rice's César A. Uribe is developing computational tools to help scientists better understand ecosystems with recent studies using AI to glean new insi...
Rice’s Grand Hall was filled with students, music and festivities Sept. 15 as the university began its many celebrations as part of Hispanic Heritage ...
Rice facility is ‘one-stop shop’ for customizing DNA to fight cancer
Rice bioengineers, synthetic biologists and cancer researchers celebrated the opening of Rice’s first CPRIT Core Facility, the Genetic Design and Engineering Center, or GDEC, Nov. 10 at the BRC.
Campus parking citation recipients get second chance for relief
Campus parking tickets are a bit easier to manage... at least this week. Student Success Initiatives, the Rice University Police Department and the Rice Parking Office invite the campus community to pay off unpaid campus parking fines with donations of food and hygiene product donations. All donations will go to The Pantry.
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator Class 2 Demo Day set for Nov. 17
Clean energy startups that are ready for investments and pilot programs will showcase their work during The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator’s Nov. 17 Demo Day.
Cool respite with a conscience
Rice faculty members have installed “Building Ecologies” at Post Houston to demonstrate a “circular” strategy that incorporates environmental systems into architecture.
Rice bioengineer seeks better signals from cells
Jerzy Szablowski earns NIH support to research noninvasive reporters that monitor gene therapy in the brain.
Supreme Court abortion decision to be examined at Baker Institute event
Renowned journalist Dahlia Lithwick will join health policy experts to discuss the major consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson that overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to abortion.
People, papers and presentations for Nov. 14, 2022
David Medina, director of multicultural community relations in the Office of Public Affairs, recently won a Best of District IV Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for an article in the fall 2021 issue of Rice at Large.
Growing pure nanotubes is a stretch, but possible
Rice engineers have a new strategy for making batches of carbon nanotubes with a single, desired chirality.
Investors, leaders recognize 11 companies at annual Texas Life Science Forum
Life science innovators, academics and investors – including those specializing in health tech, medical devices and therapeutics – convened at Rice University this week to discuss Houston’s role in the future of health care and give awards to top early-stage life science companies.