Newly created Owl Access program welcomes Rice students
The Office of Student Success Initiatives has launched a pre-matriculation program for first-year students who identify as first generation or limited income registrants.
The production set the opera’s Shakespearean farce inside a modern country club, a staging choice that sharpened the comedy’s skewering of ego, class ...
New research from Rice proposes transforming one of the moon’s most stubborn obstacles, its abrasive dust, into a valuable building resource....
Rice researchers develop new model of follicle selection that suggests its chance, not size, that selects a follicle during the menstrual cycle....
At Rice’s Natural Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium, hundreds of posters lined the room with ambitious questions and early answers....
The Houston Methodist Rice Digital Health Institute hosted its inaugural HMRDHI Industry Translation Day, marking a significant milestone in the insti...
The Rice University School of Humanities and Arts co-sponsored an April 16 Progressive Forum event featuring Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an international authorit...
From lifesaving medical devices to sustainable energy systems and robotics, Rice students packed the Ion with ingenuity April 16 for the Huff OEDK Eng...
An internal seed funding initiative will support 12 projects exploring brain health research....
A Chappell Lab visit was one of dozens of open-ended cross-disciplinary engagements sparked this spring by “Imaging after Photography,” the Moody Cent...
Rice played a key role in Houston’s Fleet Week celebration, hosting senior military leaders, engaging students and joining citywide events that highli...
Findings from the 2026 Kinder Houston Area Survey will be released April 27 by Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research....
The series serves as a flagship program of the Libbie Rice Shearn Moody Fund for the Arts, which is part of the Moody Experience, a universitywide ini...
Doerr’s Demystifying Measurement course examines impact of leader development programs in higher ed
A Doerr Institute for New Leaders course titled Demystifying Measurement is equipping students with the skills to develop evaluation systems that explore the impact of leader development programs in higher education and beyond.
Rice’s Jing Chen receives early career award from American Psychological Association
Jing Chen, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at Rice University specializing in human factors and human-computer interaction, has received the Earl Alluisi Early Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association (APA), the world’s largest association of psychologists.
Hayon to make international debut Friday
Rice junior swimmer Arielle Hayon has qualified for her first international competition and will represent Israel at the 2023 LEN European U23 Championships in Dublin, Ireland, August 11-13.
New Rice University students move to campus Aug. 13
Rice University will kick off its annual O-Week tradition Aug. 13, welcoming the incoming Class of 2027 with a weeklong orientation program to familiarize incoming students with their new campus, residential colleges and classmates.
Education program tackles race-based cancer health disparities
Rice U.’s Carolyn Nichol has won a competitive 5-year, $1,038,544 NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) award to address race-based cancer health disparities by increasing underrepresented minority student populations’ engagement and participation in biosciences education.
Lettenberger takes home third world championship medal
Ahalya Lettenberger became a three-time World Para Swimming Championship medalist by capturing the silver medal in the women’s S7 400-meter freestyle on Tuesday at the Manchester Aquatics Centre in the United Kingdom.
Kissinger, Clinton and Baker to headline anniversary gala at Rice’s Baker Institute
Three former U.S. Secretaries of State will join a moderated discussion on geopolitics, foreign affairs and public service at the 30th anniversary gala celebrating Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy Oct. 26.
Price increases to blame for rising hospital emergency room costs
Price increases were the largest source of spending per visit in emergency rooms over the past decade in four of five states studied, according to a new report from researchers at Rice University and UTHealth Houston School of Public Health.
Tiny, flexible spinal probe system could lead to better therapies
A $6.25 million National Institutes of Health grant supports Rice U. engineers optimizing a neural probe array that can record the activity of spinal cord neurons as bodies move and behave. Scientists would also develop an integrated data-processing and stimulation-feedback system.