Bringing together scholars across disciplines and national contexts, the event explored how emerging technologies affect reproductive health, ethical ...
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede discusses role with the Nobel Committee for Chemistry....
Rice welcomed hundreds of parents and family members to campus Oct. 3-4 for Families Weekend, a beloved annual tradition that gives loved ones a glimp...
Music, dance and culture filled Rice's Grand Hall during the annual Nuestra Herencia, an event sponsored by the Office of Public Affairs’ Multicultura...
Ahead of the Houston Methodist-Rice University Digital Health Institute Summit Oct.8, Rice News spoke with institute leadership about the institute’s ...
Rice volleyball closed out the weekend with a 3-0 sweep of Memphis on Sunday at Elma Roane Fieldhouse....
OpenStax, an educational initiative of Rice, announced that it has surpassed $3 billion in cumulative student savings since 2012 — nearly tripling the...
The piece explored the evolving relationship between humans and honeybees through music, poetry, electronic sound and visual design....
Rice recently honored an employee who has dedicated more than 36 years of service to the campus and all who enter its doors. The Sept. 25 celebration ...
The School of Social Sciences’ latest Research Relay gives new Rice faculty members a platform to share their research....
The Rice Center for Engineering Leadership launched the Summer Engineering Innovation Program, a 10-week interdisciplinary initiative where graduate s...
Rice’s student newspaper, The Rice Thresher, was named a finalist for the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award. In university circles, the awar...
New study to examine effectiveness of antidepressants by analyzing brain MRIs
Antidepressants only have about a 30% rate of effectiveness, and it can take a month or longer for them to fully take effect in patients. In addition, patients often have to try several different drugs before finding one that works.
Rice EMS to hold blood drive Nov. 7
Rice University Emergency Medical Services will host a blood drive on campus Nov. 7 from 2-8 p.m. To participate, sign up online for any of the available 15-minute time slots.
Pomp and circumstance is a key component of any presidential inauguration, and music is no small part of that.
Shepherd School fall opera, ‘Street Scene,’ set for Nov. 4 and 6
The year is 1946, and it’s an unbearably hot day on the east side of Manhattan. Drama abounds, from neighborhood gossip to romantic affairs to daily squabbles.
Rice U. alums share Fortune 500 experience during ‘Pioneers of Innovation’ chat
Two Rice alums were welcomed back to campus last week by Rice University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at “Pioneers of Innovation: A Fireside Chat.” Maxfield and Walter Loewenstern ’58 ’59 engaged in a discussion moderated by Edward Knightly, the Sheafor-Lindsay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of computer science.
Black alumni celebrate new president
Before transitioning to Saturday’s investiture activities, President Reginald DesRoches and his wife, University Associate Paula DesRoches, spent a fun Friday evening with family and friends at a celebration hosted by the Rice University Board of Trustees and the Association of Rice University Black Alumni (ARUBA).
People, papers and presentations for Oct. 24, 2022
Naomi Halas, the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy and of materials science and nanoengineering and the director of Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute, touted the findings of a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office study on women inventors Oct. 19 in Houston as part of the Society of Women Engineers’ annual meeting.
Rice President Reginald DesRoches inaugurated in historic investiture
Rice University celebrated the latest chapter in its storied history Oct. 22 as Reginald DesRoches was formally inaugurated as the school’s eighth president in its 110-year history during an historic, sun-kissed investiture ceremony.
Drone show lights up President DesRoches' inauguration weekend
The three-day hurrah to inaugurate Rice University’s eighth president, Reginald DesRoches, continued with a light and sound celebration at the academic quadrangle.
On the sunny fall morning of Oct. 21, Rice President Reginald DesRoches was formally summoned to his inauguration as the university’s eighth president. It was an occasion calling for more pomp and circumstance than could be packed into a simple email, phone call or text message.
