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...
Gualtieri contemplates community building by ‘Women in Early Arab America’
March 7, 2022
USC scholar to speak at March 10 lecture in honor of Women’s History Month
March 7, 2022
A Ph.D. dissertation doesn’t always have to be a paper, as demonstrated by ethnomusicologist Julian Saporiti
‘High-skilled’ Mexican immigrants in US can help both countries
March 7, 2022
“High-skilled” immigrants from Mexico are major contributors to the United States’ so-called “knowledge economy,” and fostering that relationship will benefit both countries, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Basketball teams wrap up regular season, head to conference tournaments
March 7, 2022
The Rice women’s and men’s basketball teams completed regular-season play over the weekend, and the Conference USA Championships are on tap this week.
People, papers and presentations for March 7, 2022
March 7, 2022
Freshman Arielle Hayon has qualified for the 2022 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, set for March 16-19 in Atlanta, in both the 100-meter and 200-meter butterfly.
Closer look helps Rice lab ponder when a protein’s prone to wander
March 4, 2022
Rice chemists have discovered surface interactions could be tunable at the single-protein level
Bio-FlatScope dives deep for useful data
March 3, 2022
The lensless Bio-FlatScope is a small, inexpensive camera to monitor biological activity that can’t be captured by conventional instruments. The device could eventually be used to look for signs of cancer or sepsis or become a valuable endoscopy tool.
‘Drug factory’ implants eliminate ovarian, colorectal cancer in mice
March 2, 2022
Rice bioengineers have created tiny implants that activate immune cells to destroy cancer.
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music hosted its annual Family Concert Feb. 26.
March 2, 2022
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music hosted its annual Family Concert Feb. 26.
Faculty set Rice record with eight CAREER Awards
March 1, 2022
Rice faculty set a record, winning eight NSF CAREER Awards in 2002