The Rice Student Center and the Doerr Institute for New Leaders joined forces Aug. 25 to host a fun filled Owls After Dark Game Night.
Responsible AI is foundational to achieving the strategic goals and vision set forth in Momentous, Rice’s 10-year strategic plan. To further empower t...
The American Conference has officially unveiled a dynamic rebrand aimed at clarifying its identity and positioning the league for the future....
Rice is now ranked 68th on the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2024, a list published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) ...
At Rice's Advanced Placement Summer Institute offered through the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, educators from across the globe gather each ...
A new concept shop in downtown Houston features healthy smoothies, acai bowls, parfaits and more — and it’s owned and operated by a Rice University so...
James F. Young, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, died May 28 in Hawaii. He was 81....
This year’s Summer Jam welcomed more than 1,900 people as they explored the Moody’s exhibitions “Figurative Histories” and “Collective Memories.”...
Can generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that create text, images and other content truly enhance employee creativity? A new paper published ...
Across the country and globe, Rice students are seizing hands-on roles with real stakes by interning in fields as diverse as offshore energy, arts edu...
Recent data shows that substance use of alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana, is declining among students in the Houston Independent School Distric...
In the aftermath of the devastating July 2025 floods in the Texas Hill Country, the need for reliable, real-time flood warning systems has never been ...
Robert “Bob” M. Stein, the influential political scientist who shaped civic life at Rice and across Texas, died after a brief battle with cancer....
Can fungi help Texas’ grasses cope with climate change?
Rice biologists are using Texas as a living lab to study how symbiotic fungi help grasses tolerate drought.
Cello meets multimedia in world premiere by Rice Shepherd School composer
A dynamic multimedia music experience awaits concertgoers at the Sept. 18 world premiere of a cello work by Shih-Hui Chen, a professor of composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
Reflecting on President Kennedy’s ‘Moonshot’ speech 60 years later
As Rice and NASA prepare to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Kennedy’s historic speech, some of the alumni and guests who heard the president’s speech remember that distant day as a transformative experience.
Rice Architecture’s fall lecture series takes singular look at pluralism
“Engaging Pluralism” is the theme for this fall’s Rice Architecture lecture series, set to begin Sept. 7.
People, papers and presentations for Sept. 6, 2022
Melodie French, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, has won the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award.
Research teams win Dunn Awards to fight cancer
Researchers at Rice University will team with counterparts at MD Anderson to improve cancer therapy with the support of seed funding from the John S. Dunn Foundation.
SU(N) matter is about 3 billion times colder than deep space
Physicists from Rice and Kyoto University are using the universe’s coldest fermions to explore quantum magnets.
Wearables take ‘logical’ step toward onboard control
Rice University engineers design fluidic logic into garments to help people with functional limitations perform tasks without electronic assistance.
Future of energy tech industry to be showcased at 19th annual Energy Tech Venture Forum
This year’s edition of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship Energy Tech Venture Forum, the premier venture capital and energy tech conference for connecting innovators, investors, corporations and the energy ecosystem, will feature more than 60 companies pitching their technologies to investors.