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.
A delegation of law enforcement officers from South Korea recently visited campus to learn how the Rice University Police Department addresses domesti...
Biotechnology Innovation Organization president and CEO John F. Crowley visited Rice as part of a tour highlighting regional biotech hubs across the c...
Rice anthropologist Gökçe Günel traced her path from childhood novels in Turkey to groundbreaking ethnographic research during a Sept. 10 talk at Fond...
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University, has been selected to deliver the 20...
“Impluvium Redux,” an innovative architectural structure designed by Juan José Castellón of Rice’s School of Architecture, has been shortlisted for th...
Rice sociologist investigating how features of the built environment — like dead-end streets, highways, fences and railroad tracks — shape patterns of...
Rice continues its upward trajectory in national and international rankings, earning the No. 17 spot in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best College...
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...
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.
Ukrainian energy CEO to discuss energy security at Baker Institute webinar
Maxim Timchenko, CEO of Ukraine’s largest private energy provider, DTEK, will discuss the company’s efforts to maintain operations during war and continue to provide energy for the Ukrainian people at a webinar presented by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Engineers go further with the flow to model moving cars and tires
Mechanical engineers dramatically advance computational fluid dynamics models of airflow around a moving car and its tires.
Research computing veteran Melissa Cragin joins Rice
Melissa Cragin, a veteran of both the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is now leading Rice's Center for Research Computing as Rice's associate vice president of research computing.