The space selfie – a Spelfie, as it’s called – drew hundreds to Rice Stadium.
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 ...
COVID-19 amplified hardship for many Harvey victims
A study shows the economic and mental health consequences on victims of Hurricane Harvey and COVID-19 were cumulative.
JFK: We will go to the moon. NASA: We will go farther
NASA and Rice celebrate the 60th anniversary of JFK's moon speech with a promise that his goal was just a beginning.
Owls flock to Student Activities Fair
Seasoned Rice Owls and new students alike were invited to the annual Student Activities Fair Sept. 1. Held in the student center and the adjacent Central Quad, Rice’s over 200 student clubs and campus departments set up shop to spread the word about their organizations and how interested students can get involved.
Rice anthropologists available to discuss ongoing impact of world's first memorial to a lost glacier
Three years after Rice anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer received worldwide media attention for hosting a funeral for Iceland's first major glacier lost to climate change, their project has inspired a Belgian performance artist to replace 1 ton of ice on the site of the former glacier.
Rice part of multi-institution grant to study teacher education and development
A three-year National Science Foundation grant will fund a multi-institution study of how social networks affect teacher education development.
Rice rises to No. 15 in US News rankings
Rice has risen to No. 15 among the nation’s top universities ranked in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook.
Optical rule was made to be broken
Engineers at Rice University find a way to identify nanophotonic materials with the potential to improve screens for virtual reality and 3D displays along with optical technologies in general.
Drug testing programs reduce overdose deaths, says expert
Drug testing programs can reduce overdose deaths – but politics are getting in the way of the growing public health emergency, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
People, papers and presentations for Sept. 12, 2022
Rice statisticians Katherine Ensor and Loren Hopkins and civil and environmental engineer Lauren Stadler are co-authors of a commentary in Nature Medicine that issues an urgent call to scale up wastewater monitoring to detect early signs of disease.