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...
Ambitious ‘Archives of the Impossible’ conference convenes international audience
March 14, 2022
“We are here for just one little thing: to change reality itself.”
Rice recognized as a Bicycle Friendly University
March 14, 2022
The League of American Bicyclists has named Rice a Bicycle Friendly University with Silver status, up from Bronze four years ago.
COVID-19 variants can’t hide from Variabel
March 14, 2022
Rice computer scientists introduce Variabel, which uses sequencing data to identify “low-frequency variants” of SARS-CoV-2 in public data sets. The program has also been tested on data from patients with Ebola and norovirus.
People, papers and presentations for March 14, 2022
March 14, 2022
Freshman Josie Taylor (first team) and sophomore Tara Simpson-Sullivan (second team) earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-American honors with their performances at last week’s NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Alabama.
Rice, Houston Methodist launch Center for Human Performance
March 14, 2022
Rice and Houston Methodist are creating a center to advance research and education in human performance.
March 10, 2022
Two-thirds of Muslims, half of Jews and more than a third of evangelical Protestant Christians experience workplace discrimination, albeit in different ways, according to a new study from Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program (RPLP).
Rice hoops teams win C-USA Tournament openers before bowing out
March 10, 2022
The Rice men's and women's basketball teams advanced to the quarterfinals of the Conference USA Tournament with double-digit victories in Frisco, Texas, before being eliminated.
A winning combo: Rice sport management students win trophy, score real-world experience
March 9, 2022
A team of four Rice University sport management students won the inaugural Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) Case Study Cup, part of the organization’s annual conference hosted last month by the University of Houston.
Immigration reform key to keeping US economy competitive, says Baker Institute report
March 9, 2022
The United States’ immigration system is failing to provide the nation’s economy with enough high-skilled and productive workers to grow and remain competitive on a global scale, according to a new report from experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Moody Foundation funds 12 new student opportunity endowments
March 7, 2022
The Moody Fund for Student Opportunity will finance a dozen newly created Rice endowments, providing students with an extensive array of enhanced educational opportunities financed by a $50 million commitment from the Moody Foundation.