Political science professor Bob Stein recognized with the 2025 Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement....
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...
Kaiyuan Yang wins NSF CAREER Award
April 7, 2022
Electrical and computer engineer Kaiyuan Yang wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
A new view for science and engineering
April 6, 2022
Luay Nakhleh, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, toured the construction site of the new Engineering and Science Building on April 5.
Treated plastic waste good at grabbing carbon dioxide
April 5, 2022
Rice University chemists treat waste plastic to absorb carbon dioxide from flue gas streams more efficiently than current processes.
Abducted journalist Austin Tice named James A. Baker III Prize for Excellence in Leadership honoree
April 5, 2022
The James A. Baker III Prize for Excellence in Leadership will be awarded to Austin Tice, an American journalist taken hostage in Syria nearly a decade ago, during an April 13 ceremony at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Marc and Debra Tice, his parents, will accept the honor on his behalf.
Georgia Tech team wins Rice360 Design Competition
April 4, 2022
A Georgia Tech team won Rice360’s annual undergraduate design competition for global health technologies.
Living sensor research wins federal backing
April 4, 2022
Rice researchers are leading a federally funded project to improve communications between microelectronics and microorganisms.
April 4, 2022
On April 2, Rice’s beloved Beer Bike returned in largely pre-pandemic form: races, water balloon fights and all.
People, papers and presentations for April 4, 2022
April 4, 2022
A multidisciplinary team led by Todd Treangen, an assistant professor of computer science, computer science graduate student Nick Sapoval and postdoctoral researcher Amirali Aghazadeh has published an open-access review paper in Nature Communications on the advances and limitations of deep learning as applied to the biosciences.
Rice hosts Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference
April 4, 2022
Rice hosted the 31st annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists from March 30 to April 3.
April 4, 2022
Rice partnered with the Angolan Consulate in Houston for a celebration of Women Through the Lens of Angola