The Digital Health Institute — a recently launched joint initiative between Rice University and Houston Methodist — has appointed Pothik Chatterjee as...
Rice University students will build skills in science labs, take high-impact field trips, hear from guest speakers, curate art exhibits, enhance learn...
Twenty-seven biotechnology governance entreaties echoing the legacy of the 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines are now available for public review....
A new sustainability initiative is transforming the landscape outside Fondren Library at Rice University — and it’s more than just a garden....
A team of researchers at Rice has discovered a surprisingly simple method for vastly improving the stability of electrochemical devices that convert c...
Rice faculty are available to help news media explore the deeper histories behind Juneteenth, its Texas roots and what freedom has meant in different ...
The Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative launched its inaugural seminar June 3 with an invited talk from Nobel laureate James P. Allison....
Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research releases its 2025 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report....
Rice experts can unpack and contextualize Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's statement at the VivaTech 2025 conference in Paris today that quantum computing is...
Throughout the day, the Houston booth saw a constant stream of visitors with Rice-affiliated entrepreneurs introducing their ventures to global invest...
Volunteers from the Department of Psychological Sciences assemble gift bags for those supported by Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston....
A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables...
Study: Explosive volcanic eruption produced rare mineral on Mars
July 25, 2022
Rice, NASA and Caltech scientists have solved a mystery that began with a 2016 discovery by Mars rover Curiosity.
Rice engineers get a grip with ‘necrobotic’ spiders
July 25, 2022
Rice University engineers find they can manipulate the legs of dead spiders to serve as grippers.
Rice’s Kanisha Feliciano makes Broadway history in ‘Phantom of the Opera’
July 22, 2022
Just months after her Broadway debut in James Lapine’s musical “Flying Over Sunset,” Rice Artist Diploma student Kanisha Feliciano has joined the cast of Broadway’s longest-running musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera.”
Read all about it: Access Services team honored with Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award
July 22, 2022
Fondren Library’s Access Services team, a group of 19 people, has won the 2022 Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award.
Rice economist’s research on school choice suggests ways to improve experience for students, parents
July 21, 2022
For school-age students and their parents, school choice programs can be complicated and stressful. Research from Rice University economist YingHua He suggests the process gets easier when schools are upfront about admission prospects and other details that factor into decisions, and that students should be allowed to apply before having to rank schools in order of preference.
Fox named vice president for finance and administration
July 21, 2022
Kelly Fox, a senior executive with more than 20 years of experience in higher education, has been named Rice University’s vice president for finance and administration.
Immigration policy, aggressive enforcement harm mental health of people living in US illegally
July 18, 2022
Restrictive immigration policies and aggressive law enforcement are harmful to the mental health of immigrants living in the United States illegally, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
People, papers and presentations for July 18, 2022
July 18, 2022
A paper by Rice physicist Edison Liang and colleagues titled “A scintillator attenuation spectrometer for intense gamma-rays” is featured on the cover of the June 2022 issue of Review of Scientific Instruments.
Registration opens for Rice’s continuing studies courses
July 18, 2022
Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has released its course guide for fall 2022.
Synthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA
July 15, 2022
Bioengineers used deactivated Cas9 fusion proteins to synthetically control gene expression and reveal new details about natural processes in human cells.