Program in Writing and Communication marks 10-year anniversary
The Program in Writing and Communication reached its 10-year anniversary this month.
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...
A team of researchers at Rice has developed a new membrane that selectively filters out lithium from brines, offering a faster, cleaner way to produc...
When Kathleen Ortiz arrived at Rice, she wasn’t sure if journalism would remain part of her life. A senior majoring in social policy analysis and spor...
The Kinder Institute ’s Houston Population Research Center finds roughly 10% of area residents are still struggling to recover from Hurricane Beryl....
When classes began at Venice International University Sept. 8, a delegation from Rice University was there to witness it....
Professor of cello Norman Fischer was the soloist in the premiere, which marked the first of four debuts still to come this season in a multiyear init...
A new study has found that energy transfers more quickly between molecular sites when it starts in an entangled, delocalized quantum state....
Rice secured its first conference win of the season with a 3-2 reverse sweep over Tulsa on Sunday at Tudor Fieldhouse....
Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has launched a new EC-3 alternative teacher certification program to prepare the next generat...
A new study led by Rice, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals that icefish reorganized their skulls in ways that ...
A new study by a Rice University researcher shows transgender adults of any age are more susceptible to disability than those who are cisgender.
People, papers and presentations for Oct. 3, 2022
Casley Matthews, a senior health sciences and social policy analysis student, is lead author of a paper in the Journal of American College Health that describes how the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the nutrition of Houston college students.
Owls soar over UAB in Conference USA football opener
The Rice football team overcame a 10-point halftime deficit to defeat the University of Alabama at Birmingham 28-24 on Saturday to open Conference USA play.
A semester in Paris, an experience of a lifetime
At 20, Rice Architecture’s international campus has plenty to celebrate.
See nature like (and with) a biologist in new online courses
Online learners can follow Rice biologist and author Scott Solomon into the wild through an engaging series of courses focused on ecology, evolution and biodiversity.
Working to decrease health insurance costs could increase companies’ profits, research shows
Negotiating lower health insurance premiums could help Fortune 500 companies increase profits while maintaining high-quality coverage for their workers, according to a new research paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Fluidic circuits add analog options for controlling soft robots
Soft robotics researchers from Rice and Harvard have created a nonelectronic control system that uses air to process information.
English professor Laymon converses with rapt crowd at reading, welcome reception
Kiese Laymon, the renowned Black Southern writer and the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English in the School of Humanities, introduced himself to the Rice community at large during a lively reading and welcome reception Sept. 8.
Voting at stadiums wins fans across America
Sports teams across America scored a victory with voters in 2020 when their stadiums did double duty as polling places, according to a new study conducted by a Rice University political scientist and his fellow researchers.